R Observatory: Metrics for auk version 0.9.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

auk

0.9.1Package record

eBird Data Extraction and Processing in R

1packages depend

12.1Kdownloads / year

75.4%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Matthew Strimas-MackeyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Extract and process bird sightings records from eBird (http://ebird.org), an online tool for recording bird observations. Public access to the full eBird database is via the eBird Basic Dataset (EBD; see http://ebird.org/ebird/data/download for access), a downloadable text file. This package is an interface to AWK for extracting data from the EBD based on taxonomic, spatial, or temporal filters, to produce a manageable file size that can be imported into R.

Changes in 0.9.1

ensure taxon_concept_id behaves correctly in auk_rollup() (issue #94)
update EBD example files to get latest format (e.g. add taxon_concept_id)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("auk", 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("CornellLabofOrnithology/auk")

Development version from CornellLabofOrnithology/auk. 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-auk

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-auk

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-auk

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  auk/R/auk-country.R (.Names: 1)
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.9.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.9.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 46 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 85%34 run in a plain check · 6 never run
Exported functions with examples: 98%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 2%

Vignettes (2)

Introduction to auk HTML
auk development HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

12.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,768 · ~33/day · ~1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

98730 days

2.6K90 days

12.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on165 r2u24 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

cornelllabofornithology/auk ↗Organization: CornellLabofOrnithology

160Stars

24Forks

10Open issues

0Open PRs

8Releases

250Commits

9Commit identities

rebirddataset

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 250 commits · Last activity 2026-03-20 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.9.2, ahead of CRAN 0.9.1 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 83%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-17 · 1482026-09-30 · 160

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/cornelllabofornithology/auk on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-03-20

pkgdown site last built 2026-03-20

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing auk adds 39 packages (23 with compiled code, 23 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (10)

assertthat countrycode dplyr httr magrittr readr rlang stringi stringr tidyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

covr knitr rmarkdown sf testthat unmarked withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

hicream

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Matthew Strimas-Mackey

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2017)

Wesley Hochachka

Author

Eliot Miller

Author

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Copyright holder

Releases (24)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.9.1Latest
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added 1 export
process_barcharts
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2023-11-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
auk_exotic
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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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0.4.3
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2020-11-23 · diff ↗
0.4.2
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2020-10-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
auk_county, auk_year
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2020-04-03 · diff ↗
0.4.0
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2019-09-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
auk_observer
0.3.3
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2019-06-23 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2019-02-04 · diff ↗
0.3.1
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2018-12-08 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2018-10-04 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
auk_getpath, auk_version_date

added 11 exports
auk_bbox, auk_bcr, auk_ebd_version, auk_get_awk_path, auk_get_ebd_path, auk_set_awk_path, auk_set_ebd_path, auk_version, filter_repeat_visits, format_unmarked_occu, get_ebird_taxonomy
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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0.2.0
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2018-03-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
auk_sampling, auk_select, auk_split, auk_state
0.1.0
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2017-10-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
auk_breeding, auk_distance, auk_project, auk_protocol, auk_rollup
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2017-07-06 · diff ↗
0.0.1
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2017-07-05
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-07-05
Total releases: 24 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 394 KB / 4 files
Download size: 1.3 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("auk")

Format

Strimas-Mackey, M., Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Hochachka, W., & Miller, E. (2026). auk: eBird Data Extraction and Processing in R (Version 0.9.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.auk

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for auk version 0.9.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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