R Observatory: Metrics for Rfacebook version 0.6.15

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Rfacebook

0.6.15Package record

Access to Facebook API via R

0packages depend

4.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Pablo BarberaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides an interface to the Facebook API.

Install

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

install.packages("Rfacebook", 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("pablobarbera/Rfacebook")

Development version from pablobarbera/Rfacebook. 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-rfacebook

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-Rfacebook

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-Rfacebook

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Pablo Barbera <pbarbera@usc.edu>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Pablo",
                      family = "Barbera",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "pbarbera@usc.edu"),
               person(given = "Michael",
                      family = "Piccirilli",
                      role = "aut",
                      email = "mrp2181@columbia.edu"),
               person(given = "Andrew",
                      family = "Geisler",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Wouter",
                      family = "van Atteveldt",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.6.15

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 23includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%21 never run
Exported functions with examples: 95%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 5%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,293 · ~12/day · ~371/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

35330 days

99490 days

4.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on83 r2u4 autocran144 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

pablobarbera/rfacebook ↗Account: pablobarbera

351Stars

240Forks

43Open issues

6Open PRs

2Releases

237Commits

17Commit identities

237 commits · Last activity 2020-05-22 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 82%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 12
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 3

Stars over time

2025-10-05 · 3522026-09-03 · 351

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/pablobarbera/rfacebook on 2026-10-21.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing Rfacebook adds 19 packages (14 with compiled code, 12 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: promises 3.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, httpuv 1.8 MB.

Depends (4)

R >= 2.12.0httr rjson httpuv

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (4)

· added in 0.5

· added in 0.6.3

· added in 0.6.15

Maintainer since 0.2 (2013)

Releases (10)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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
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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 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
3.0.3Latest
record
2014-01-05 · current release · diff ↗
0.6.15
record
2017-05-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
getEvents, getPageToken
0.6.11
record
2017-01-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
getCommentReplies

Show 8 earlier eventsHide 8 earlier events

0.6.6
record
2016-07-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
getReactions, getShares
0.6.3
record
2016-03-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
callAPI
0.6
record
2015-08-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
getGroup, searchGroup
0.5
record
2015-01-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
getInsights
0.4
record
2014-04-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
getFQL, searchPages
0.3
record
2014-01-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
getCheckins, getLikes, getNewsfeed
0.2
record
2013-11-16
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published: 2013-11-16
Total releases: 10 / 13 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.12.0
Download size: 32 KB

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citation("Rfacebook")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Rfacebook version 0.6.15 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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