R Observatory: Metrics for bcdata version 0.5.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bcdata

0.5.3Package record

Search and Retrieve Data from the BC Data Catalogue

1packages depend

11.5Kdownloads / year

82.5%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Andy TeucherCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Search, query, and download tabular and 'geospatial' data from the British Columbia Data Catalogue (https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/). Search catalogue data records based on keywords, data licence, sector, data format, and B.C. government organization. View metadata directly in R, download many data formats, and query 'geospatial' data available via the B.C. government Web Feature Service ('WFS') using 'dplyr' syntax.

Changes in 0.5.3

Fixed a bug where filter() calls using CQL geometry predicates (such as INTERSECTS()) produced malformed CQL that the server rejected with an HTTP 400 error (#368).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("bcdata", 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("bcgov/bcdata")

Development version from bcgov/bcdata. 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-bcdata

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-bcdata

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-bcdata

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:
  bcdata/tests/testthat/test-query-geodata-filter.R (.Dim: 1)
'.Dim' should be changed to 'dim'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTE2026-10-06
ERROR7 OK, 5 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-10-01
NOTE9 OK, 4 NOTE2026-08-04
ERROR8 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-07-30
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16

Show 3 earlier changesHide 3 earlier changes

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 0.5.3

READMEYes · 796 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5.3Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 26 (8 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 14%3 run in a plain check · 18 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 88%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 52%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (5)

How these are measured

Downloads

11.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,597 · ~31/day · ~955/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.1K30 days

2.8K90 days

11.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on132 r2u44 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

bcgov/bcdata ↗Organization: bcgov

87Stars

15Forks

25Open issues

3Open PRs

17Releases

1,393Commits

26Commit identities

envrstatsrdata-sciencer-packagecitzbcdc

License file reads as Apache-2.0 · 1,393 commits · Last activity 2026-10-13 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.5.3.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.5.3 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 94%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 7
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-07-04 · 842026-08-13 · 87

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/bcgov/bcdata on 2026-10-18.

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 (3)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templates

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-13 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-10

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bcdata adds 85 packages (48 with compiled code, 69 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, bslib 5.6 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (19)

methodsutilsstatscli DBI crul dbplyr dplyr tibble (>= 3.1.0)glue jsonlite leaflet (>= 2.1.0)purrr readr readxl rlang sf tidyselect xml2 (>= 1.3.0)

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

covr ggplot2 knitr rmarkdown testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

bcmaps

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Andy Teucher

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2019)

Sam Albers

Author, Contributor

Stephanie Hazlitt

Author, Contributor

Province of British Columbia

Copyright holder

Releases (16)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.5.3Latest
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2026-07-09 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.5.2
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2026-02-07 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.5.1
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2025-03-26 · diff ↗
0.5.0
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2024-12-12 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.4.1
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2023-03-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
bcdc_list_organization_records, bcdc_list_organizations
0.4.0
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2023-01-05 · diff ↗
0.3.2
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2022-07-06 · diff ↗
0.3.1
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2022-05-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
bcdc_get_citation
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.3.0
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2021-10-28 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.4
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2021-05-04 · diff ↗

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0.2.3
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2021-04-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
bcdc_check_geom_size
0.2.2
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2021-03-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
bcdc_list_group_records, bcdc_list_groups
0.2.1
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2020-10-25 · diff ↗
0.2.0
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2020-06-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
as_tibble
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.2
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2019-12-17 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
BEYOND, RELATE

added 2 exports
bcdc_tidy_resources, mutate
0.1.1
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2019-11-05
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-11-05
Total releases: 16 / 7 yrs
License: Apache License (== 2.0)
Download size: 2.8 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("bcdata")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.21105/joss.02927.

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 bcdata version 0.5.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-20, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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