R Observatory: Metrics for comtradr version 1.0.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

comtradr

1.0.6Package record

Interface with the United Nations Comtrade API

0packages dependsuggested by 1

9.6Kdownloads / year

81.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul BochtlerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗rOpenSci review: issue 613 ↗rOpenSci review: issue 141 ↗

Interface with and extract data from the United Nations 'Comtrade' API https://comtradeplus.un.org/. 'Comtrade' provides country level shipping data for a variety of commodities, these functions allow for easy API query and data returned as a tidy data frame.

Changes in 1.0.6

Minor improvements

Replaced the poorman dependency (scheduled for archival on CRAN) with dplyr. This does not add any new transitive dependencies, as all of dplyr's dependencies were already required through other imports.

Bug fixes

ct_get_bulk() now validates the frequency argument instead of failing with an obscure object 'date_range' not found error.
Invalid partner / partner_2 values now produce a readable error message that lists each invalid code once, instead of repeating the message for every code.
ct_migrate_cache() no longer fails with argument "message" is missing when reporting a failed copy.

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Fixed HTTP 414 "URI Too Long" errors when querying long code lists, e.g. partner = "all_countries" (#103). The Comtrade API rejects URLs longer than about 2000 characters. ct_get_data() now detects this before performing the request, transparently splits the partner and/or reporter codes into multiple requests and combines the results into a single data.frame. With process = FALSE splitting is not possible (a single response object is returned) and a warning is issued instead.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("comtradr", 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("ropensci/comtradr")

Development version from ropensci/comtradr. 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-comtradr

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-comtradr

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-comtradr

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: 2.6 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-28
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-27
OK14 OK2026-04-09

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ERROR11 OK, 3 ERROR2026-04-02
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.6

READMEYes · 494 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.6Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 18 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 43%6 run in a plain check (6 of them under a condition) · 8 never run
Exported functions with examples: 93%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (5)

How these are measured

Downloads

9.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,875 · ~26/day · ~798/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

99330 days

2.4K90 days

9.6K1 year

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Also on208 r2u8 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/comtradr ↗Organization: ropensci

85Stars

20Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

14Releases

689Commits

10Commit identities

comtradeapisupply-chainrrstatsr-packagepeer-reviewed

689 commits · Last activity 2026-09-19 · +1.2% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.1.0, ahead of CRAN 1.0.6 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 94%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 108
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 832026-10-10 · 85

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 9 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/comtradr on 2026-10-18.

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 (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (2)

README.Rmdpkgdown

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 5 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing comtradr adds 41 packages (26 with compiled code, 23 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, fs 1.4 MB, openssl 1.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (15)

lifecycle fs readr askpass cli httr2 rlang stringr dplyr lubridate purrrtoolsrappdirs memoise cachem

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

covr ggplot2 httptest2 knitr rmarkdown spelling testthat callr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

countryatlas

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (8)

Paul Bochtler

Harriet Goers

Author · added in 0.4.0.0

Chris Muir

Author

Juergen Amann

Contributor · added in 0.3.0

Ernest Guevarra

Reviewer · added in 0.4.0.0

Ernest reviewed the package for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/613

Rafael Hellwig

Reviewer · added in 0.2.1

Rafael reviewed the package for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/141

Nicholas Potter

Reviewer · added in 0.4.0.0

Nicholas reviewed the package for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/613

Alicia Schep

Reviewer · added in 0.2.1

Alicia reviewed the package for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/141

Previously maintained by Chris Muir (0.0.1 to 0.3.0).

Releases (14)

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1.0.6Latest
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2026-07-30 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.5
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2025-12-15 · diff ↗
1.0.4
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2025-09-27 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.3
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2024-11-15 · diff ↗
1.0.2
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2024-09-20 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-05-24
1.0.1
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2024-05-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
ct_migrate_cache
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-05-18
policy violation Uses and leaves files/directories behind in the user's cache directory
1.0.0
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2024-05-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
ct_get_bulk
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-02-06
0.4.0.0
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2024-02-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
ct_get_data, ct_get_ref_table, get_primary_comtrade_key, set_primary_comtrade_key
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-04-12
the request of the maintainer

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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.3.0
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2022-04-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.2.2
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2018-10-05 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2018-05-05
0.2.1
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2018-05-05 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1.0
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2017-10-24 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
commodity_lookup, country_lookup, ct_commodities_table, ct_countries_table

added 8 exports
ct_commodity_db_type, ct_commodity_lookup, ct_country_lookup, ct_get_remaining_hourly_queries, ct_get_reset_time, ct_register_token, ct_update_databases, ct_use_pretty_cols
0.0.2
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2017-07-04 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2017-05-30
requested by the maintainer <chrismuirRVA@gmail.com>
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.0.1
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2017-04-05
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-04-05
Total releases: 14 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 7.0 KB / 2 files
Download size: 3.3 MB

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("comtradr")

Format

Bochtler, P., Amann, J., Goers, H., Guevarra, E., Hellwig, R., Muir, C., Potter, N., & Schep, A. (2026). comtradr: Interface with the United Nations Comtrade API (Version 1.0.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.comtradr

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for comtradr version 1.0.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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