R Observatory: Metrics for WikidataR version 2.3.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2026-02-08. Its history is shown below.

Reason: requires archived package 'WikidataQueryServiceR'

Details below reflect version 2.3.3, its last release before removal.

WikidataR

2.3.3Package record

Read-Write API Client Library for Wikidata

0packages dependsuggested by 1

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas ShafeeCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Read from, interogate, and write to Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org - the multilingual, interdisciplinary, semantic knowledgebase. Includes functions to: read from wikidata (single items, properties, or properties); query wikidata (retrieving all items that match a set of criterial via Wikidata SPARQL query service); write to Wikidata (adding new items or statements via QuickStatements); and handle and manipulate Wikidata objects (as lists and tibbles). Uses the Wikidata and Quickstatements APIs.

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/WikidataR/WikidataR_2.3.3.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "WikidataR_2.3.3.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (2.3.3) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("TS404/WikidataR")

Development version from TS404/WikidataR. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 2.3.3

READMEYes · 588 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 38includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 65%13 run in a plain check · 3 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 61%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 91%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

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Also on130 r2u5 autocran2.8K conda_forge163 c2d4u

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (14)

httr jsonlite WikipediR WikidataQueryServiceR tibble dplyr stringr Hmisc progress pbapplystatsreadr crayonutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

markdown testthat tidyverse knitr pageviews

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

–indirect (not tracked)

Suggested by 1

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WikipediR

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People & History

People (6)

Thomas Shafee

Author, Maintainer since 2.1.5 (2021) · added in 2.1.5

Os Keyes

Author · added in 2.3.3

Serena Signorelli

Author · added in 1.2.0

Alex Lum

Contributor · added in 2.1.5

Christian Graul

Contributor

Mikhail Popov

Contributor · added in 1.4.0

Previously maintained by Oliver Keyes (1.0.0 to 1.4.0).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Oliver Keyes

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 2.3.1

Releases (10)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-02-08
requires archived package 'WikidataQueryServiceR'
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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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
2.3.3
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2021-11-16 · diff ↗
2.3.1
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2021-07-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
disambiguate_QIDs, filter_qids
2.2.0
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2021-07-05 · diff ↗
2.1.5
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2021-05-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 25 exports
as_pid, as_qid, as_quot, as_sid, check_input, createrows, createrows.tidy, extract_para, get_example, get_names_from_properties, identifier_from_identifier, initials, list_properties, qid_from_DOI, qid_from_ORCID, qid_from_identifier, qid_from_name, query_wikidata, searcher, sparql_query, unspecial, url_to_id, wd_query, wd_rand_query, write_wikidata
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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
1.4.0
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2017-09-22 · diff ↗
1.3.0
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2017-05-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
extract_claims

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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.2.0
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2017-02-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
get_geo_box, get_geo_entity
1.1.0
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2016-06-13 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.0.1
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2016-01-15 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2015-06-01
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-06-01
Total releases: 10 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("WikidataR")

Format

Shafee, T., Keyes, O., Signorelli, S., Lum, A., Graul, C., & Popov, M. (n.d.). WikidataR: Read-Write API Client Library for Wikidata (Version 2.3.3) [Computer software]. Retrieved October 21, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=WikidataR

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 WikidataR version 2.3.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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