R Observatory: Metrics for GIFT version 1.3.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

GIFT

1.3.4Package record

Access to the Global Inventory of Floras and Traits (GIFT)

0packages depend

5Kdownloads / year

28.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Pierre DenelleCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Retrieving regional plant checklists, species traits and distributions, and environmental data from the Global Inventory of Floras and Traits (GIFT). More information about the GIFT database can be found at https://gift.uni-goettingen.de/about and the map of available floras can be visualized at https://gift.uni-goettingen.de/map. The API and associated queries can be accessed according the following scheme: https://gift.uni-goettingen.de/api/extended/index2.0.php?query=env_raster.

Changes in 1.3.4

Fix in GIFT_env_meta_misc and GIFT_env_meta_raster

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("GIFT", 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("BioGeoMacro/GIFT")

Development version from BioGeoMacro/GIFT. 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-gift

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-GIFT

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-GIFT

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: 6.3 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-27
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-13
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25

Show 3 earlier changesHide 3 earlier changes

NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-31
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-03-28
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.4

READMEYes · 319 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.3.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 27
Examples that run: 4%1 run in a plain check · 26 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 96%

Vignettes (1)

GIFT tutorial

How these are measured

Downloads

5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,170 · ~14/day · ~418/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

59230 days

1.6K90 days

5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on150 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

biogeomacro/gift ↗Organization: BioGeoMacro

22Stars

2Forks

2Open issues

1Open PRs

4Releases

781Commits

3Commit identities

rr-packagebiodiversitybiodiversity-informaticsplants-databaseplants-distribution

781 commits · Last activity 2026-08-23 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 10
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 56

Stars over time

2025-01-14 · 172026-07-14 · 22

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/biogeomacro/gift on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-23 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-08-23, before release 1.3.4 (2026-08-24)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing GIFT adds 55 packages (35 with compiled code, 50 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, igraph 4.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.3

Imports (11)

ape curl dplyr httr2 jsonlite phytools purrr sfstatstidyrutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

covr ggplot2 kableExtra knitr patchwork testthat (>= 3.0.0)RColorBrewer rmarkdown rnaturalearth rnaturalearthdata scales

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Pierre Denelle

Author, Maintainer since 1.1.0 (2023)

Patrick Weigelt

Author

Previously maintained by Patrick Weigelt (1.0.0).

Releases (8)

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Package metadata

First published: 2023-03-15
Total releases: 8 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.3
Bundled data: 1.1 KB / 1 file
Download size: 5.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("GIFT")

Format

Denelle, P., & Weigelt, P. (2026). GIFT: Access to the Global Inventory of Floras and Traits (GIFT) (Version 1.3.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.GIFT

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 GIFT version 1.3.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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