R Observatory: Metrics for GetLattesData version 1.5.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

GetLattesData

1.5.2Package record

Reading Bibliometric Data from Lattes Platform

0packages depend

3.8Kdownloads / year

90.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Marcelo PerlinCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A simple API for downloading and reading xml data directly from Lattes http://lattes.cnpq.br/.

Changes in 1.5.2

fixed silent row misalignment in gld_read_zip2() when books, papers, supervisions or conferences are missing optional sub-nodes
added supervision_type column (msc, phd, others) to supervisions
gld_read_zip2() no longer coerces identifiers (e.g. numero_identificador) to numeric; page columns are now numeric
gld_get_lattes_data_from_zip() no longer emits a deprecation warning or "Unknown or uninitialised column" warnings when there are no accepted papers
fixed wrong awards count in gld_read_zip2() status message
moved runtime dependencies (cli, xml2, tibble, janitor, purrr, readxl) from Suggests to Imports and removed the unused curl dependency

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("GetLattesData", 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/GetLattesData")

Development version from msperlin/GetLattesData. 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-getlattesdata

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-GetLattesData

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-GetLattesData

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: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-27
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.5.2

READMEYes · 198 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.5.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

How to use GetLattesData HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,499 · ~10/day · ~319/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

60730 days

1.2K90 days

3.8K1 year

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Also on110 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

msperlin/getlattesdata ↗Account: msperlin

27Stars

12Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

92Commits

4Commit identities

bibliometricsr

92 commits · Last activity 2026-09-21 · 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: 1

Stars over time

2025-09-12 · 232026-07-07 · 27

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/msperlin/getlattesdata on 2026-10-18.

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

CRAN release process (1)

CRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing GetLattesData adds 40 packages (23 with compiled code, 25 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, readxl 2.1 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (14)

stringr XML dplyr readr stringdisttoolslubridate lifecycle cli xml2 tibble janitor purrr readxl

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown testthat ggplot2

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 (1)

Marcelo Perlin

Author, Maintainer since 0.5 (2017)

Releases (16)

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1.5.2Latest
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2026-09-21 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
gld_read_zip2
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.5
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2024-05-04 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.4.3
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2023-08-09 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.4.2
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2022-12-06 · diff ↗
1.4.1
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2022-06-08 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
gld.get.papers.info, gld_get_SJR, gld_get_lattes_data, gld_get_qualis, gld_read_zip
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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
1.4
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2020-03-07 · diff ↗
1.3.1
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2019-08-08 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.3
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2019-04-09 · diff ↗

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1.2
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2018-10-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
gld_get_lattes_data_from_zip
1.1
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2018-08-19 · diff ↗
1.0
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2018-08-13 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.9
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2017-11-28 · diff ↗
0.8
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2017-11-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
gld.get.papers.info
0.7
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2017-10-31 · diff ↗
0.6
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2017-10-15 · diff ↗
0.5
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2017-09-05
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-09-05
Total releases: 16 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 3.8 MB

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("GetLattesData")

Format

Perlin, M. (2026). GetLattesData: Reading Bibliometric Data from Lattes Platform (Version 1.5.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.GetLattesData

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for GetLattesData version 1.5.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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