R Observatory: Metrics for brightspaceR version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

brightspaceR

0.1.0Package record

Access D2L 'Brightspace' Data Sets via the 'BDS' API

0packages depend

3.3Kdownloads / year

44.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Peeyoosh ChandraCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Connect to the D2L 'Brightspace' Data Sets ('BDS') API via 'OAuth2', download all available datasets as tidy data frames with proper types, join them using convenience functions that know the foreign key relationships, and analyse student engagement, performance, and retention with ready-made analytics functions.

Changes in 0.1.0

Initial CRAN release.
OAuth2 authentication with D2L Brightspace (bs_auth()).
Download all Brightspace Data Sets (BDS) as tidy data frames (bs_get_dataset()).
Download Advanced Data Sets (ADS) with automatic pagination (bs_get_ads()).
Convenience join functions that know foreign-key relationships (bs_join()).
Composable analytics helpers for engagement, performance, and retention.
MCP server for LLM-assisted data exploration (inst/mcp/).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("brightspaceR", 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("pcstrategyandopsco/brightspaceR")

Development version from pcstrategyandopsco/brightspaceR. 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-brightspacer

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-brightspaceR

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-brightspaceR

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: 2.0 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
OK7 OK2026-03-14

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 717 wordsVignettesYes · 8 · staticNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 84 (36 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 21%10 run in a plain check · 37 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 98%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (8)

How these are measured

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,483 · ~9/day · ~273/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33330 days

94290 days

3.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on56 r2u16 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

pcstrategyandopsco/brightspacer ↗Account: pcstrategyandopsco

2Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

20Commits

1Commit identities

20 commits · Last activity 2026-07-09 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2026-03-09 · 12026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/pcstrategyandopsco/brightspacer on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-09

pkgdown site last built 2026-03-18

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

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing brightspaceR adds 38 packages (23 with compiled code, 22 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (14)

cli config curl dplyr httr2 lubridate openssl purrr readr rlang stringr tibbletoolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

httptest2 knitr pkgdown rmarkdown rstudioapi testthat withr yaml

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)

Peeyoosh Chandra

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2026)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0Latest
record
2026-03-12 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-12
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 179 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("brightspaceR")

Format

Chandra, P. (2026). brightspaceR: Access D2L 'Brightspace' Data Sets via the 'BDS' API (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.brightspaceR

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for brightspaceR version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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