R Observatory: Metrics for RISmed version 2.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RISmed

2.3.0

Download Content from NCBI Databases

1packages depend

12.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Stephanie KovalchikFirst published 2011-03-2815 releasesCRAN page ↗

A set of tools to extract bibliographic content from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) databases, including PubMed. The name RISmed is a portmanteau of RIS (for Research Information Systems, a common tag format for bibliographic data) and PubMed.

Install

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

install.packages("RISmed", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-rismed

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-RISmed

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-RISmed

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 86%
References docs: 31%

Downloads

12.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,043 · ~33/day · ~1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34330 days

1.3K90 days

12.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on91 r2u18 autocran1.2K conda_forge229 bioconda61 c2d4u

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.6.0methods

Imports (2)

httr xml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

TTCA

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Stephanie Kovalchik

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.0

Authors (1)

Stephanie Kovalchik

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

S. A. Kovalchik

no longer listed · 1.1 to 1.2.3

Package Timeline

15 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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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
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15

Package metadata

First published: 2011-03-28
Total releases: 15 / 15 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Bundled data: 38 KB / 1 file
Download size: 66 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("RISmed")

Format

Kovalchik, S. (2021). RISmed: Download Content from NCBI Databases (Version 2.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RISmed

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 RISmed version 2.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-08-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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