R Observatory: Metrics for birddog version 1.0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

birddog

1.0.4Package record

Sniffing Emergence and Trajectories in Academic Papers and Patents

0packages depend

3.8Kdownloads / year

33.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Roney Fraga SouzaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides a unified set of methods to detect scientific emergence and technological trajectories in academic papers and patents. The package combines citation network analysis with community detection and attribute extraction, also applying natural language processing (NLP) and structural topic modeling (STM) to uncover the contents of research communities. It implements metrics and visualizations of community trajectories, including novelty indicators, citation cycle time, and main path analysis, allowing researchers to map and interpret the dynamics of emerging knowledge fields. Applications of the method include: Souza et al. (2022) doi:10.1002/bbb.2441, Souza et al. (2022) doi:10.14211/ibjesb.e1742, Matos et al. (2023) doi:10.1007/s43938-023-00036-3, Maria et al. (2023) doi:10.3390/su15020967, Biazatti et al. (2024) doi:10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101074, Felizardo et al. (2025) doi:10.1007/s12649-025-03136-z, and Miranda et al. (2025) doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2025.01.089.

Changes in 1.0.4

New features

mixed_sort(): exported for external use, with improved documentation.
plot_group_trajectories_lines_2d(): new width_by_traj_size parameter to scale line width by trajectory size (default TRUE).
plot_group_trajectories_lines_3d(): new width_by_traj_size parameter to scale line width by trajectory size (default TRUE).

Improvements

Rewrite vignette with biogas dataset and gallery-with-code format.
Fix README: wrong package name and CRAN URL, add Features section.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("birddog", 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("roneyfraga/birddog")

Development version from roneyfraga/birddog. 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-birddog

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-birddog

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-birddog

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: 3.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
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 1.0.4

READMEYes · 396 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 51 (24 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 8%2 run in a plain check · 23 never run
Exported functions with examples: 96%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 6%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to birddog HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,870 · ~10/day · ~319/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

42630 days

1.1K90 days

3.8K1 year

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Also on118 r2u31 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

roneyfraga/birddog ↗Account: roneyfraga

1Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

77Commits

1Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 77 commits · Last activity 2026-06-23 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.0.0, ahead of CRAN 1.0.4 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2026-07-04 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/roneyfraga/birddog on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

pkgdown site last built 2026-06-16

CRAN release process (1)

CRAN-SUBMISSION

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

32 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing birddog adds 87 packages (50 with compiled code, 82 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (17)

dplyr ggraph ggplot2 plotly igraph tidygraph tidyr tibbleMatrixpurrr readr rlang glue openalexR RColorBrewer scales stringr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (16)

benchmarkme knitr rmarkdown cli ggHoriPlot ggrepel ggthemes janitor gt testthat tictoc viridis zoo stm tidytext udpipe

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Roney Fraga Souza

Luis Felipe de Souza Rodrigues

Contributor

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Souza

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.0.4

de Souza Rodrigues

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.0.4

Releases (2)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.4Latest
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2026-04-04 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
mixed_sort
1.0.0
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2026-02-19
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-02-19
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 3.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("birddog")

Format

Souza, R. F., & de Souza Rodrigues, L. F. (2026). birddog: Sniffing Emergence and Trajectories in Academic Papers and Patents (Version 1.0.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.birddog

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 birddog version 1.0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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