R Observatory: Metrics for brandwatchR version 0.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

brandwatchR

0.3.0Package record

'Brandwatch' API to R

0packages depend

3.1Kdownloads / year

12.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Donal PhippsCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Interact with the 'Brandwatch' API https://developers.brandwatch.com/docs. Allows you to authenticate to the API and obtain data for projects, queries, query groups tags and categories. Also allows you to directly obtain mentions and aggregate data for a specified query or query group.

Install

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

install.packages("brandwatchR", 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("Phippsy/brandwatchR")

Development version from Phippsy/brandwatchR. 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-brandwatchr

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-brandwatchR

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-brandwatchR

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: 56 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 26includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%25 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,374 · ~8/day · ~256/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

29030 days

86290 days

3.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on98 r2u8 autocran128 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

phippsy/brandwatchr ↗Account: Phippsy

11Stars

1Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

30Commits

4Commit identities

textminingbrandwatchapir

30 commits · Last activity 2018-08-16

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2024-06-23 · 112026-07-07 · 11

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/phippsy/brandwatchr on 2026-10-22.

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing brandwatchR adds 9 packages (7 with compiled code, 8.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (3)

httr jsonlite data.table

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

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)

Donal Phipps

Author, Maintainer since 0.3.0 (2018)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.3.0Latest
record
2018-08-13 · current release
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-08-13
Total releases: 1 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 16 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("brandwatchR")

Format

Phipps, D. (2018). brandwatchR: 'Brandwatch' API to R (Version 0.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.brandwatchR

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 brandwatchR version 0.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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