R Observatory: Metrics for biolink version 0.1.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

biolink

0.1.8

Create Hyperlinks to Biological Databases and Resources

0packages depend

2.9Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Aaron WolenFirst published 2017-03-077 releasesCRAN page ↗

Generate urls and hyperlinks to commonly used biological databases and resources based on standard identifiers. This is primarily useful when writing dynamic reports that reference things like gene symbols in text or tables, allowing you to, for example, convert gene identifiers to hyperlinks pointing to their entry in the 'NCBI' Gene database. Currently supports 'NCBI' Gene, 'PubMed', Gene Ontology, 'KEGG', CRAN and Bioconductor.

Install

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

install.packages("biolink", 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-biolink

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-biolink

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: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 2.04

100.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

6

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
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 190 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
References docs: 25%

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,040 · ~8/day · ~243/mo

Releases R versions

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22430 days

72890 days

2.9K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (6)

rentrez xml2 DBI RMySQL glue memoise

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

testthat lintr httr covr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Aaron Wolen

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Aaron Wolen

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-03-07
Total releases: 7 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 12 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("biolink")

Format

Wolen, A. (2023). biolink: Create Hyperlinks to Biological Databases and Resources (Version 0.1.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.biolink

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 biolink version 0.1.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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