R Observatory: Metrics for authoritative version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

authoritative

0.2.0Package record

Parse and Deduplicate Author Names

0packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

78.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hugo GrusonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: data.org

Utilities to parse authors fields from DESCRIPTION files and general purpose functions to deduplicate names in database, beyond the specific case of R package authors.

Changes in 0.2.0

New features

New invert_names() function will return a cleaned vector of names potentially inverted occurrences of 'Lastname Firstname' to 'Firstname Lastname' (or the reverse) based on a list of cleaned_names. Same as for the expand_names() function, the invert_names(x, x) can be used to deduplicate names from a vector without an external source of truth (@Bisaloo, #25).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("authoritative", 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("Bisaloo/authoritative")

Development version from Bisaloo/authoritative. 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-authoritative

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-authoritative

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-authoritative

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: 2.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 220 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 6 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,655 · ~7/day · ~208/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

24630 days

79690 days

2.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on90 r2u10 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

bisaloo/authoritative ↗Account: Bisaloo

0Stars

0Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

123Commits

4Commit identities

data-cleaningdata-extractionrr-package

123 commits · Last activity 2026-02-05 · Default branch at 0.2.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.2.0 (checked 2026-10-25)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 74%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Releases over time

2025-06-24 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

18 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 9 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/bisaloo/authoritative on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-03-02 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-11-01

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 5 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

Automation and maintenance (2)

Dependabotpre-commit

Lint, format, editor (5)

lintrLint workflowAirVS CodeRStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing authoritative adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 11 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (2)

stringiutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown spelling testthat

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)

Hugo Gruson

data.org

Funder · added in 0.2.0

until version 0.2.0 included

Chris Hartgerink

Reviewer

Releases (2)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.0Latest
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2025-06-24 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
invert_names
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.0
record
2025-02-03
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2025-02-03
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 34 KB / 1 file
Download size: 75 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("authoritative")

Format

Gruson, H., data.org, & Hartgerink, C. (2025). authoritative: Parse and Deduplicate Author Names (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.authoritative

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

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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 authoritative version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-26, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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