R Observatory: Metrics for bskyr version 0.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bskyr

0.4.0

Interact with 'Bluesky' Social

0packages depend

11Kdownloads / year

81.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Christopher T. KennyFirst published 2023-11-106 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.14

81.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

15

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 288 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

11K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,621 · ~30/day · ~921/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

59430 days

2.6K90 days

11K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.1K r2u39 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ christopherkenny/bskyr

34Stars

8Forks

5Open issues

1Open PRs

5Releases

361Commits

5Contributors

blueskyratprotoatprotocolbluesky-apibskysocial-media

361 commits · Last activity 2026-07-01 · +3% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-12 · 272026-08-02 · 34

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/christopherkenny/bskyr on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Christopher T. Kenny

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Christopher T. Kenny

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

6 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.0Latest
2025-10-25 · current release · diff ↗
0.3.0
2025-05-03 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.0
2025-02-09 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.2
2024-01-09 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2023-11-26 · diff ↗
0.0.4
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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("bskyr")

Format

Kenny, C. T. (2025). bskyr: Interact with 'Bluesky' Social (Version 0.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bskyr

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 bskyr version 0.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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