R Observatory: Metrics for FAOSTAT version 2.4.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

FAOSTAT

2.4.2Package record

Download Data from the FAOSTAT Database

1packages depend

9.9Kdownloads / year

1.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul RougieuxCRAN page ↗GitLab ↗Issues ↗

Download Data from the FAOSTAT Database of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. A list of functions to download statistics from FAOSTAT (database of the FAO https://www.fao.org/faostat/) and WDI (database of the World Bank https://data.worldbank.org/), and to perform some harmonization operations.

Install

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

install.packages("FAOSTAT", 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("paulrougieux/faostatpackage")

Development version from paulrougieux/faostatpackage. 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-faostat

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-FAOSTAT

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-FAOSTAT

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: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-04
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.4.2

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 34 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 53%9 run in a plain check · 4 never run · 4 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 61%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 50%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Also includes 1 demo script (run with demo())

Vignettes (1)

Download and harmonize FAOSTAT and WDI data: the FAOSTAT package PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

9.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,473 · ~27/day · ~828/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

70730 days

3.1K90 days

9.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on120 r2u4 autocran119 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

gitlab.com/paulrougieux/faostatpackage ↗

6Stars

1Forks

21Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

219Commits

8Commit identities

219 commits · Last activity 2026-04-01

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: GitHub only
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: GitHub only

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against gitlab.com/paulrougieux/faostatpackage on 2026-10-21.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing FAOSTAT adds 16 packages (13 with compiled code, 12 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, openssl 1.1 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (7)

RJSONIO plyr data.tableMASSclassInt labeling httr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr testthat rstudioapi

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

whep

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Paul Rougieux

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.3.1

Sebastian Campbell

Author · added in 2.3.1

Markus Gesmann

Author

Filippo Gheri

Author · added in 1.4

Michael C. J.

Author · added in 2.3.1

Maintainer since 2.1.1 (2020), previously Filippo Gheri (1.9 to 2.0) and Michael C. J. Kao (1.1 to 1.6)

Listed in earlier versions (3)

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Micheal. C. J. Kao

no longer listed · 1.1 to 1.4

Michael C. J. Kao

no longer listed · 1.6 to 2.3.0

J.

no longer listed · 2.4.2

Releases (15)

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R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.4.2Latest
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2026-04-01 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
faostat_login, get_faostat_bulk_api, get_faostat_bulk_url
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.4.0
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2024-05-22 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-05-02
2.3.1
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2024-05-02 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-04-20
issues were not corrected despite reminders
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.3.0
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2023-03-30 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
FAOcheck, getFAOtoSYB

added 8 exports
change_case, check_country_overlap, read_bulk_metadata, read_dataset_dimension, read_dimension_metadata, read_fao, search_dataset, translate_countrycodes
2.2.4
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2023-02-14 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.2.3
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2022-01-05 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.2.1
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2020-11-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
get_faostat_bulk
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

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2.1.2
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2020-04-06 · diff ↗
2.1.1
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2020-02-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
download_faostat_bulk, read_faostat_bulk
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
2.0
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2015-06-02 · diff ↗
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
1.9
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2014-10-28 · diff ↗ ·
removed 6 exports
aggCountry, aggRegion, dataDensity, sparsity, sparsityHeatMap, tsPanel

added 3 exports
Aggregation, scaleUnit, translateUnit
R
R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
1.6
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2014-03-14 · diff ↗
1.4
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2013-05-30 · diff ↗
1.3
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2013-05-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
dataDensity, printLab, sparsityHeatMap, tsPanel
R
R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
1.1
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2013-02-01
R
R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2013-02-01
Total releases: 15 / 13 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Bundled data: 58 KB / 3 files
Download size: 307 KB

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Agricultural Science Official Statistics & Survey Statistics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("FAOSTAT")

Format

Rougieux, P., Campbell, S., Gesmann, M., Gheri, F., & J., M. C. (2026). FAOSTAT: Download Data from the FAOSTAT Database (Version 2.4.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.FAOSTAT

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

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for FAOSTAT version 2.4.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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