R Observatory: Metrics for GetBCBData version 0.9.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

GetBCBData

0.9.5Package record

Imports Datasets from BCB (Central Bank of Brazil) using Its Official API

1packages depend

10.3Kdownloads / year

86.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Marcelo PerlinCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Downloads and organizes datasets using BCB's API https://www.bcb.gov.br/. Offers options for caching with the 'memoise' package and , multicore/multisession with 'furrr' and format of output data (long/wide).

Changes in 0.9.5

removed the package vignette, which relied on a live call to the BCB API and caused intermittent CRAN check errors ('from' must be a finite number) when the service was unreachable while re-building vignettes
dropped 'VignetteBuilder' from DESCRIPTION accordingly

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("GetBCBData", 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("msperlin/GetBCBData")

Development version from msperlin/GetBCBData. 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-getbcbdata

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-GetBCBData

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-GetBCBData

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: 50 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-11
ERROR10 OK, 3 ERROR2026-10-04
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 0.9.5

READMEYes · 120 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.9.5Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 0%2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

10.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,620 · ~28/day · ~862/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

81230 days

1.8K90 days

10.3K1 year

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Also on81 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

msperlin/getbcbdata ↗Account: msperlin

17Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

34Commits

3Commit identities

34 commits · Last activity 2026-10-05 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-01 · 152026-08-21 · 17

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/msperlin/getbcbdata on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (1)

CRAN-SUBMISSION

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing GetBCBData adds 28 packages (17 with compiled code, 9.4 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: jsonlite 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, dplyr 902 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (10)

curl dplyr future furrr jsonlite memoise purrr cli parallelly xml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown testthat ggplot2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

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How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Marcelo Perlin

Author, Maintainer since 0.5 (2019)

Releases (7)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.9.5Latest
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2026-02-02 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
gbcbd_search_series
0.9.1
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2026-02-02 · diff ↗
0.9.0
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2025-04-29 · diff ↗
0.8.0
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2025-04-12 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.7.0
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2022-06-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
gbcbd_get_JSON_fct, gbcbd_get_default_cache_folder, gbcbd_get_single_series, gbcbd_message, gbcbd_test_internet
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2021-01-21 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.5
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2019-04-23
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-04-23
Total releases: 7 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 11 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("GetBCBData")

Format

Perlin, M. (2026). GetBCBData: Imports Datasets from BCB (Central Bank of Brazil) using Its Official API (Version 0.9.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.GetBCBData

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 GetBCBData version 0.9.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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