R Observatory: Metrics for bskyr version 0.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bskyr

0.4.0Package record

Interact with 'Bluesky' Social

0packages depend

10.9Kdownloads / year

81.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Christopher T. KennyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Collect data from and make posts on 'Bluesky' Social via the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Application Programming Interface (API), as documented at https://atproto.com/specs/xrpc. This further supports broader queries to the Authenticated Transfer (AT) Protocol https://atproto.com/ which 'Bluesky' Social relies on. Data is returned in a tidy format and posts can be made using a simple interface.

Changes in 0.4.0

Fixes an issue where OpenGraph links with a size hint would fail downloading. (#32)
Improves transformations of starter packs into tibbles with cleaner unnesting. (#31)
Allows for more than 25 actors in bs_get_profile(), (#29, #30).
No longer overly widens results in bs_get_profile(). (#42)
Improves bs_get_likes() processing and makes it clear it is self-only.
Adds 3 vignettes. (#12)
"Creating Records on Bluesky Social"
"Gathering Data from Bluesky Social"
"Working with Lists and Starter Packs"
Adds support for direct messages or conversations (aka "convos").
bs_list_convos() lists all conversations
bs_get_messages() retrieves messages from a conversation

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bs_get_convo() retrieves details on a conversation
bs_get_convo_log() retrieves the log on all conversations
bs_update_read() sets a conversation to read
bs_update_all_read() sets all conversations to read
bs_accept_convo() accepts a conversation
bs_add_reaction() adds a reaction to a message
bs_remove_reaction() removes a reaction to a message
bs_mute_convo() mutes a conversation
bs_unmute_convo() unmutes a conversation
bs_send_message() sends a message to a conversation
bs_delete_message_for_self() hides a message for you
bs_leave_convo() leaves a conversation
bs_get_convo_availability() retrieves info on if you can chat with another actor
bs_send_message_batch() sends a batch of messages to different conversations
Fixes an issue where actual numbers with a # sign would cause failures in posting (#45).
Avoids creating raw version of files for upload where possible (#16).
Always returns embed for bs_get_posts() (#40, #41).
Include all returned information in bs_get_author_feed(). Note that this requires adding a prefix to reply and reason information. (#43)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("bskyr", 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("christopherkenny/bskyr")

Development version from christopherkenny/bskyr. 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-bskyr

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-bskyr

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-bskyr

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: 4.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-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 0.4.0

READMEYes · 288 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.0Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 84
Examples that run: 100%84 run in a plain check (77 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

10.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,157 · ~30/day · ~910/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

69230 days

2.2K90 days

10.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.1K r2u14 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

christopherkenny/bskyr ↗Account: christopherkenny

34Stars

9Forks

5Open issues

1Open PRs

5Releases

361Commits

5Commit identities

blueskyratprotoatprotocolbluesky-apibskysocial-media

361 commits · Last activity 2026-07-01 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.5.0, ahead of CRAN 0.4.0 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 62%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 86
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 8

Stars over time

2025-08-12 · 272026-08-02 · 34

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/christopherkenny/bskyr on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-01 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-01

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bskyr adds 37 packages (24 with compiled code, 30 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, magick 4.4 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (15)

cli curl dplyr fs httr2 lubridate magick mime opengraph purrr rlang stringi stringr tibble tidyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

emoji jsonlite knitr rmarkdown spelling testthat (>= 3.0.0)vcr withr

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)

Christopher T. Kenny

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.4 (2023)

Releases (6)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.0Latest
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2025-10-25 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 17 exports
bs_accept_convo, bs_add_reaction, bs_delete_message_for_self, bs_get_convo, bs_get_convo_availability, bs_get_convo_for_members, bs_get_convo_log, bs_get_messages, bs_leave_convo, bs_list_convos, bs_mute_convo, bs_remove_reaction, bs_send_message, bs_send_message_batch, bs_unmute_convo, bs_update_all_read, bs_update_read
0.3.0
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2025-05-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
bs_delete_post, bs_get_list_feed, bs_new_embed_external
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.0
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2025-02-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 23 exports
bs_block, bs_delete_block, bs_delete_follow, bs_delete_like, bs_delete_list, bs_delete_list_item, bs_delete_repost, bs_delete_starter_pack, bs_extract_record_key, bs_follow, bs_get_actor_starter_packs, bs_get_list, bs_get_quotes, bs_get_relationships, bs_get_starter_pack, bs_get_starter_packs, bs_new_list, bs_new_list_item, bs_new_starter_pack, bs_unblock, bs_unfollow, bs_unlike, bs_url_to_uri
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.2
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2024-01-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
bs_search_posts
0.1.0
record
2023-11-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 11 exports
bs_create_record, bs_created_at, bs_delete_record, bs_describe_repo, bs_get_record, bs_like, bs_list_records, bs_repost, bs_resolve_handle, bs_upload_blob, bs_uri_to_url
0.0.4
record
2023-11-10
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-11-10
Total releases: 6 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Download size: 500 KB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for bskyr version 0.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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