R Observatory: Metrics for aws.ec2metadata version 0.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

aws.ec2metadata

0.2.2Package record

Get EC2 Instance Metadata

0packages dependsuggested by 2

43.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gonzalo DiazCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Retrieve Amazon EC2 instance metadata from within the running instance.

Changes in 0.2.2

New maintainer and fix of URL sites
Date updated

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("aws.ec2metadata", 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("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. 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-aws.ec2metadata

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-aws.ec2metadata

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: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK6 OK2026-10-05
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.2

READMEYes · 121 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.2Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

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

How these are measured

Downloads

43.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,281 · ~118/day · ~3.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2K30 days

2K90 days

43.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on489 r2u24 autocran1.9K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

cloudyr/aws.ec2metadata ↗Organization: cloudyr

12Stars

10Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

59Commits

5Commit identities

ec2-instance-metadatacloudyrrawsaws-ec2

59 commits · Last activity 2026-10-03

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 83%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 169
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 38

Issues over time

2026-10-05 · 22026-10-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/cloudyr/aws.ec2metadata on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CI (config file)AppVeyor

Governance and community (3)

Contributing guideIssue templatesPR template

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing aws.ec2metadata adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 1.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

curl jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

gargle aws.signature

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Gonzalo Diaz

Maintainer since 0.2.2 (2026), Author · added in 0.2.2

Thomas J. Leeper

Author

Jonathan Stott

Author · added in 0.1.6

Michael Condouris

Contributor · added in 0.2.2

Previously maintained by Jonathan Stott (0.1.6 to 0.2.0) and Thomas J. Leeper (0.1.1 to 0.1.5).

Releases (7)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-10-05
0.2.2Latest
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2026-10-05 · current release · diff ↗ ·
29 hours in CRAN's queue
Listed in CRAN's incoming queue from 2026-10-03 21:57 to 2026-10-05 03:17 UTC, in 8 readings.
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-05-08
email to the maintainer is undeliverable
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2.0
record
2019-07-15 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.6
record
2019-04-24 · diff ↗
0.1.5
record
2018-07-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
ecs_metadata, is_ecs
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1.4
record
2018-04-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
instance_document

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0.1.2
record
2017-06-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
is_ec2
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.1
record
2016-12-20
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Across CRAN, the median accepted release of the past year spent 23 hours in the queue, 90% under 11 days.How queue time is measured

Package metadata

First published: 2016-12-20
Total releases: 7 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 5.7 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("aws.ec2metadata")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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 0.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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