R Observatory: Metrics for arete version 0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

arete

0.2Package record

Automated REtrieval from TExt

0packages depend

3.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Vasco V. BrancoCRAN page ↗

A Python based pipeline for extraction of species occurrence data through the usage of large language models. Includes validation tools designed to handle model hallucinations for a scientific, rigorous use of LLM. Currently supports usage of GPT with more planned, including local and non-proprietary models. For more details on the methodology used please consult the references listed under each function, such as Kent, A. et al. (1995) doi:10.1002/asi.5090060209, van Rijsbergen, C.J. (1979, ISBN:978-0408709293, Levenshtein, V.I. (1966) https://nymity.ch/sybilhunting/pdf/Levenshtein1966a.pdf and Klaus Krippendorff (2011) https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/2089.

Install

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

install.packages("arete", 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-arete

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-arete

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 17.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-02
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-04-10
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-09
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 22includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 70%14 run in a plain check · 6 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 14%

Vignettes (1)

Package workflow HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,220 · ~10/day · ~316/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

35030 days

1.1K90 days

3.8K1 year

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Also on213 r2u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing arete adds 183 packages (103 with compiled code, 158 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.3.0

Imports (15)

terra cld2 stringr reticulate pdftools fedmatch kableExtra dplyr geckomethodsggplot2 jsonlite googledrive irr rmarkdown

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

knitr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (4)

Vasco V. Branco

Maintainer since 0.1 (2025), Author

Pedro Cardoso

Author

Thomas Merrien

Contributor

Vaughn Shirey

Contributor

Releases (2)

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Package metadata

First published: 2025-10-20
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.3.0
Download size: 833 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("arete")

Format

Branco, V. V., Cardoso, P., Merrien, T., & Shirey, V. (2026). arete: Automated REtrieval from TExt (Version 0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.arete

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for arete version 0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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