R Observatory: Metrics for correctref version 0.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

correctref

0.0.2Package record

Correct and Standardize References for Scientific Manuscripts

0packages depend

3.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Umar HussainCRAN page ↗

Reads 'Word' documents containing incomplete bibliographic references and produces an updated file with standardized and complete references. The package provides functions to retrieve missing authors, titles, journal details, volume, issue, and page numbers. Digital object identifiers (DOIs) are retrieved using the 'CrossRef' application programming interface (API) https://api.crossref.org, and references are formatted following DOI-based citation standards as described by Paskin (2010) doi:10.1000/182 and the 'citation.doi.org' service https://citation.doi.org. The package is intended to simplify reference preparation for scientific journal submissions.

Install

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

install.packages("correctref", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-correctref

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-correctref

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-correctref

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: 1.2 min · r-devel-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
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.0.2

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 0%1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,410 · ~10/day · ~318/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27330 days

86690 days

3.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on60 r2u9 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing correctref adds 35 packages (25 with compiled code, 24 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, officer 1.2 MB, openssl 1.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (4)

httr jsonlite stringr officer

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

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)

Umar Hussain

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.2 (2026)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.0.2Latest
record
2026-01-12 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-12
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 3.2 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("correctref")

Format

Hussain, U. (2026). correctref: Correct and Standardize References for Scientific Manuscripts (Version 0.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.correctref

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 correctref version 0.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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