R Observatory: Metrics for REDCapExporter version 0.3.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

REDCapExporter

0.3.6Package record

Automated Construction of R Data Packages from REDCap Projects

0packages depend

3.6Kdownloads / year

96.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Peter DeWittCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Export all data, including metadata, from a REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) Project via the REDCap API https://projectredcap.org/wp-content/resources/REDCapTechnicalOverview.pdf. The exported (meta)data will be processed and formatted into a stand-alone R data package which can be installed and shared between researchers. Several default reports are generated as vignettes in the resulting package.

Changes in 0.3.6

Improvements

Use the installed roxygen2 version in DESCRIPTION files generated for data packages, and omit the roxygen2 configuration field when roxygen2 is not available.

Testing Change

Make test-build_r_pkg.R robust to future roxygen2 version changes.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("REDCapExporter", 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("dewittpe/REDCapExporter")

Development version from dewittpe/REDCapExporter. 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-redcapexporter

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-REDCapExporter

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-REDCapExporter

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: 2.9 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-27
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-22
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-20

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OK14 OK2026-03-18
ERROR10 OK, 4 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.6

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.6Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 11 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 88%7 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 83%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

3.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,986 · ~10/day · ~303/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

29330 days

1K90 days

3.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on105 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

dewittpe/redcapexporter ↗Account: dewittpe

2Stars

0Forks

6Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

254Commits

1Commit identities

rredcapredcap-apiapidata-exportr-package

254 commits · Last activity 2026-06-18 · The default branch showed an older version (0.3.5) than CRAN on 2026-10-22

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

2021-09-27 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/dewittpe/redcapexporter on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-18 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-06-18, before release 0.3.6 (2026-08-21)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

data-raw/Makefile

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing REDCapExporter adds 12 packages (9 with compiled code, 2.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: curl 714 KB, lubridate 420 KB, cpp11 298 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (4)

curl keyring lubridate rjson

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

getPass kableExtra knitr qwraps2 rmarkdown roxygen2 secret

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)

Peter DeWitt

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2019)

Releases (11)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.3.6Latest
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2026-06-18 · current release · diff ↗
0.3.5
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2026-03-09 · diff ↗
0.3.3
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2025-07-29 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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2024-09-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.2
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2021-02-02 · diff ↗
0.2.1
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2020-05-15 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

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0.2.0
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2020-02-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
REDCapExporter_add_api_token, REDCapExporter_get_api_token, REDCapExporter_keyring_check
0.1.0
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2019-12-22
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-12-22
Total releases: 11 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 30 KB / 10 files
Download size: 97 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("REDCapExporter")

Format

DeWitt, P. (2026). REDCapExporter: Automated Construction of R Data Packages from REDCap Projects (Version 0.3.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.REDCapExporter

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 REDCapExporter version 0.3.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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