R Observatory: Metrics for biofetchR version 0.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

biofetchR

0.1.1

Download, Clean, Classify, Enrich and Export Biodiversity Occurrence Data

0packages depend

370downloads / year

4.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Darren StuartFirst published 2026-07-212 releasesCRAN page ↗

Downloads, imports, cleans, classifies, enriches and exports biodiversity occurrence data, with an emphasis on reproducible Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) https://api.gbif.org/v1/ workflows. The package supports batch occurrence downloads, taxonomic standardisation, coordinate cleaning, optional spatial thinning, spatial attribution and structured export of processed occurrence records and audit outputs. Terrestrial and freshwater workflows can join records to administrative units, protected areas, freshwater ecoregions, basins, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, wetlands and other contextual spatial overlays. Marine workflows support offshore and coastal records through joins to Marine Regions https://www.marineregions.org/ style layers, Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) units, marine ecoregions, Large Marine Ecosystems and user-supplied marine overlays. The package also supports native-range and invasive-status evidence workflows using the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) https://www.marinespecies.org/, evidence derived from Standardising and Integrating Alien Species (SInAS) https://zenodo.org/records/18220953, and Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) https://griis.org/ style species-country records. These tools are intended for biodiversity, macroecological and invasion-biology analyses where occurrence records need to be processed consistently, transparently and reproducibly.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)

install.packages("biofetchR", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-biofetchr

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

# 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-biofetchR

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 8.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.01

4.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

13

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-22
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 3,767 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 41%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

370

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #23,940 · ~1/day · ~31/mo

Releases R versions

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33430 days

37090 days

3701 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

30 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (13)

cli CoordinateCleaner countrycode curl dplyr geodata jsonlite mregions2 readr rgbif rlang sf tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (17)

geosphere ggplot2 httr knitr lwgeom mapme.biodiversity osmdata readxl remotes rmarkdown rnaturalearth stringi stringr terra testthat tidyr worrms

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Darren Stuart

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Darren Stuart

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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

0.1.1Latest
2026-08-20 · current release · diff ↗
0.1.0
2026-07-21
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-07-21
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 3.0 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("biofetchR")

Format

Stuart, D. (2026). biofetchR: Download, Clean, Classify, Enrich and Export Biodiversity Occurrence Data (Version 0.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.biofetchR

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for biofetchR version 0.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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