R Observatory: Metrics for biolink version 0.1.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

biolink

0.1.8Package record

Create Hyperlinks to Biological Databases and Resources

0packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Aaron WolenCRAN 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.

Changes in 0.1.8

Use the _PACKAGE sentinel to create a package overview

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-release-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.8

READMEYes · 190 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.8Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 4 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 25%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,778 · ~9/day · ~268/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36030 days

97590 days

3.2K1 year

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Also on360 r2u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing biolink adds 19 packages (14 with compiled code, 6.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, XML 937 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (6)

rentrez xml2 DBI RMySQL glue memoise

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

testthat lintr httr covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Aaron Wolen

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.2 (2017)

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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

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 package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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