R Observatory: Metrics for arkdb version 0.0.19

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

arkdb

0.0.19Package record

Archive and Unarchive Databases Using Flat Files

0packages depend

6.1Kdownloads / year

76.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Carl BoettigerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Flat text files provide a robust, compressible, and portable way to store tables from databases. This package provides convenient functions for exporting tables from relational database connections into compressed text files and streaming those text files back into a database without requiring the whole table to fit in working memory.

Changes in 0.0.19

patch tsv read causing errors on CRAN

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("arkdb", 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("ropensci/arkdb")

Development version from ropensci/arkdb. 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-arkdb

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-arkdb

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-arkdb

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: 9.8 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-17
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-10-01
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

Show 3 earlier changesHide 3 earlier changes

ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.0.19

READMEYes · 614 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.0.19Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 14includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 43%3 run in a plain check · 4 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 54%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 77%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

arkdb HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

6.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,122 · ~17/day · ~504/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

56930 days

1.6K90 days

6.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on112 r2u21 autocran112 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/arkdb ↗Organization: ropensci

80Stars

7Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

8Releases

258Commits

10Commit identities

databasearchivingrrstatsdbipeer-reviewedr-package

258 commits · Last activity 2026-02-09

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 80%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-08-30 · 802026-07-07 · 80

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/arkdb on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

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

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2019-10-14

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing arkdb adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 727 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: DBI 727 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (3)

DBItoolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (18)

arrow R.utils progress readr spelling dplyr dbplyr nycflights13 testthat knitr covr fs rmarkdown RSQLite duckdb vroom utf8 future.apply

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 (3)

Carl Boettiger

Brandon Bertelsen

Contributor · added in 0.0.13

Richard FitzJohn

Contributor

Releases (18)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.0.19Latest
record
2026-02-10 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.0.18
record
2024-01-16 · diff ↗
0.0.17
record
2024-01-09 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.0.16
record
2022-09-09 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.0.15
record
2022-02-15 · diff ↗
0.0.14
record
2021-10-18 · diff ↗
0.0.13
record
2021-10-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
streamable_parquet
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.0.12
record
2021-04-05 · diff ↗
0.0.11
record
2021-03-14 · diff ↗
0.0.10
record
2021-03-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
arkdb_delete_db

Show 11 earlier eventsHide 11 earlier events

0.0.8
record
2020-11-04 · diff ↗
0.0.7
record
2020-10-15 · diff ↗
0.0.6
record
2020-09-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
local_db, local_db_disconnect, process_chunks, streamable_vroom
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.0.5
record
2018-10-31 · diff ↗
0.0.4
record
2018-09-27 · diff ↗
0.0.3
record
2018-09-11 · diff ↗
0.0.2
record
2018-08-20 · diff ↗
0.0.1
record
2018-08-20
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-08-20
Total releases: 18 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Download size: 103 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("arkdb")

Format

Boettiger, C., Bertelsen, B., & FitzJohn, R. (2026). arkdb: Archive and Unarchive Databases Using Flat Files (Version 0.0.19) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.arkdb

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 arkdb version 0.0.19 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

Report a problem with this page →