R Observatory: Metrics for RAthena version 2.6.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RAthena

2.6.3Package record

Connect to 'AWS Athena' using 'Boto3' ('DBI' Interface)

0packages depend

11.3Kdownloads / year

12.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dyfan JonesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Designed to be compatible with the R package 'DBI' (Database Interface) when connecting to Amazon Web Service ('AWS') Athena https://aws.amazon.com/athena/. To do this 'Python' 'Boto3' Software Development Kit ('SDK') https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/index.html is used as a driver.

Changes in 2.6.3

Bug Fix:

Unload option returns null results when s3_staging_dir is a bucket only (#214) thanks to @dfsnow for implementing solution
Add support for describe (noctua # 218) thanks to @tyner for raising issue
Add support for EXPLAIN (TYPE validate) (noctua # 225) thanks to @tyner for raising issue
Fix link for document dbSendQuery (noctua # 223) thanks to @tyner for raising issue
Return athena option environment from RAthena_options (noctua # 226) thanks to @tyner for raising issue
Support SelectedEngineVersion in update_work_group (noctua # 224) thanks to @tyner for raising issue

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("RAthena", 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("DyfanJones/RAthena")

Development version from DyfanJones/RAthena. 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-rathena

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-RAthena

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-RAthena

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: 4.4 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
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 2.6.3

READMEYes · 1,242 wordsVignettesYes · 7 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 2.6.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 26 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 10%1 run in a plain check · 9 never run
Exported functions with examples: 38%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 94%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (7)

How these are measured

Downloads

11.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,549 · ~31/day · ~939/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

62330 days

1.8K90 days

11.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on284 r2u7 autocran1.1K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

dyfanjones/rathena ↗Account: DyfanJones

36Stars

6Forks

12Open issues

0Open PRs

13Releases

1,374Commits

9Commit identities

rathenaawsboto3database

1,374 commits · Last activity 2025-09-29 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 99%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-12-30 · 372026-07-18 · 36

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/dyfanjones/rathena on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-09-29

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing RAthena adds 13 packages (9 with compiled code, 12 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, reticulate 1.6 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (7)

data.table DBImethodsreticulate (>= 1.13)statsutilsuuid

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

arrow bit64 dplyr dbplyr testthat tibble vroom covr knitr rmarkdown jsonify jsonlite

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)

Dyfan Jones

Author, Maintainer since 1.2.0 (2019)

Releases (27)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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removed 1 export
sql_escape_string.AthenaConnection

added 5 exports
AthenaListObjects, AthenaPreviewObject, db_compute.AthenaConnection, db_copy_to.AthenaConnection, sql_query_save.AthenaConnection
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Package metadata

First published: 2019-10-14
Total releases: 27 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 342 KB

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Format

Jones, D. (2025). RAthena: Connect to 'AWS Athena' using 'Boto3' ('DBI' Interface) (Version 2.6.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RAthena

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for RAthena version 2.6.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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