R Observatory: Metrics for aws.ec2metadata version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2026-05-08. Its history is shown below.

Reason: email to the maintainer is undeliverable

Details below reflect version 0.2.0, its last release before removal.

aws.ec2metadata

0.2.0

Get EC2 Instance Metadata

2packages depend

57.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

–checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jonathan Stott6 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Retrieve Amazon EC2 instance metadata from within the running instance.

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/aws.ec2metadata/aws.ec2metadata_0.2.0.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "aws.ec2metadata_0.2.0.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 (0.2.0) 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("cloudyr/aws.ec2metadata")

Development version from cloudyr/aws.ec2metadata. 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-aws.ec2metadata

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# 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-aws.ec2metadata

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 97 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 100%

Downloads

57.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,967 · ~158/day · ~4.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

030 days

090 days

57.5K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

curl jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

–indirect (not tracked)

aws.signature gargle

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Jonathan Stott

Maintainer, Author · added in 0.1.6

Authors (2)

Jonathan Stott

Maintainer, Author · added in 0.1.6

Thomas J. Leeper

Author

Package Timeline

6 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-05-08
email to the maintainer is undeliverable
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2.0
2019-07-15 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.6
2019-04-24 · diff ↗
0.1.5
2018-07-26 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1.4
2018-04-03 · diff ↗
0.1.2
2017-06-30 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

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0.1.1
2016-12-20
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

Total releases: 6
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 5.2 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("aws.ec2metadata")

Format

Leeper, T. J., & Stott, J. (n.d.). aws.ec2metadata: Get EC2 Instance Metadata (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved August 23, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=aws.ec2metadata

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 aws.ec2metadata version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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