R Observatory: Metrics for ETLUtils version 1.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ETLUtils

1.6Package record

Utility Functions to Execute Standard Extract/Transform/Load Operations (using Package 'ff') on Large Data

0packages depend

3.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jan WijffelsCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides functions to facilitate the use of the 'ff' package in interaction with big data in 'SQL' databases (e.g. in 'Oracle', 'MySQL', 'PostgreSQL', 'Hive') by allowing easy importing directly into 'ffdf' objects using 'DBI', 'RODBC' and 'RJDBC'. Also contains some basic utility functions to do fast left outer join merging based on 'match', factorisation of data and a basic function for re-coding vectors.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("ETLUtils", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("jwijffels/ETLUtils")

Development version from jwijffels/ETLUtils. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-etlutils

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-ETLUtils

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-ETLUtils

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.6

READMEYes · 182 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 12includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 58%7 run in a plain check · 4 never run · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 83%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,681 · ~10/day · ~306/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34530 days

98090 days

3.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on88 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

jwijffels/etlutils ↗Account: jwijffels

19Stars

6Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

56Commits

3Commit identities

56 commits · Last activity 2025-11-26

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 67%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 31

Stars over time

2021-11-30 · 192026-07-07 · 19

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jwijffels/etlutils on 2026-10-22.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ETLUtils adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 618 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ff 321 KB, bit 297 KB.

Depends (1)

ff

Imports (1)

bit

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

RSQLite zoo DBI RODBC RJDBC

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Jan Wijffels

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2012)

Releases (8)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2018-01-17 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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2015-05-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
factorise, write.dbi.ffdf, write.jdbc.ffdf, write.odbc.ffdf

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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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2013-01-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
read.jdbc.ffdf
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2012-05-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
read.odbc.ffdf
1.0
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2012-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2012-04-03
Total releases: 8 / 14 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 47 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ETLUtils")

Format

Wijffels, J. (2025). ETLUtils: Utility Functions to Execute Standard Extract/Transform/Load Operations (using Package 'ff') on Large Data (Version 1.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ETLUtils

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ETLUtils version 1.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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