R Observatory: Metrics for connector version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

connector

1.0.0

Streamlining Data Access in Clinical Research

3packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

89.5%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Cervan GirardFirst published 2025-04-253 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides a consistent interface for connecting R to various data sources including file systems and databases. Designed for clinical research, 'connector' streamlines access to 'ADAM', 'SDTM' for example. It helps to deal with multiple data formats through a standardized API and centralized configuration.

Install

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

install.packages("connector", 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("NovoNordisk-OpenSource/connector")

Development version from NovoNordisk-OpenSource/connector. 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-connector

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-connector

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-connector

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.61

89.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

20

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
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 469 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 80%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,299 · ~9/day · ~269/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

26030 days

86390 days

3.2K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ novonordisk-opensource/connector

22Stars

3Forks

15Open issues

4Open PRs

3Releases

376Commits

18Contributors

License Apache-2.0 · 376 commits · Last activity 2026-07-06 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-12 · 162026-07-10 · 22

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/novonordisk-opensource/connector on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Automation and maintenance (2)

Dependabotpre-commit

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

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

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: claude on 2025-06-25

claude

Most recent: claude on 2025-06-25

Evidence

claude: on 2025-06-25 · evidence B, D

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

31 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (20)

arrow checkmate cli DBI dplyr fs glue haven jsonlite lifecycle purrr R6 readr readxl rlangutilsvroom writexl yaml zephyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

dbplyr ggplot2 knitr rmarkdown RPostgres RSQLite spelling testthat tibble usethis whirl (>= 0.2.0)withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

clinTrialData connector.databricks connector.sharepoint

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Cervan Girard

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Cervan Girard

Author, Maintainer

Vladimir Obucina

Author

Aksel Thomsen

Author

Copyright holders (1)

Novo Nordisk A/S

Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.0Latest
2025-08-19 · current release · diff ↗
0.1.1
2025-05-09 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2025-04-25
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-04-25
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2)
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 330 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

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citation("connector")

Format

Girard, C., Novo Nordisk A/S, Obucina, V., & Thomsen, A. (2025). connector: Streamlining Data Access in Clinical Research (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.connector

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for connector version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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