R Observatory: Metrics for dataRetrieval version 2.7.25

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

dataRetrieval

2.7.25

Retrieval Functions for USGS and EPA Hydrology and Water Quality Data

8packages depend

75.8Kdownloads / year

39.5%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Laura DeCiccoFirst published 2014-10-1342 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Collection of functions to help retrieve U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency water quality and hydrology data from web services.

Install

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

install.packages("dataRetrieval", 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("DOI-USGS/dataRetrieval")

Development version from DOI-USGS/dataRetrieval. 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-dataretrieval

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-dataRetrieval

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-dataRetrieval

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.20

39.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

12

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

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 94%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 66%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

75.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,664 · ~208/day · ~6.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4.3K30 days

14.9K90 days

75.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on2K r2u20 autocran2.8K conda_forge56 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ doi-usgs/dataretrieval

330Stars

99Forks

6Open issues

1Open PRs

64Releases

5,510Commits

35Contributors

rusgsrstatsr-package

5,510 commits · Last activity 2026-08-05 · +1.2% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-13 · 3002026-08-14 · 330

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/doi-usgs/dataretrieval on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsGitLab CI

Docs source (2)

README.RmdQuarto project

Lint, format, editor (3)

lintrAirVS Code

Coverage (1)

Codecov

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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 2026-04-14

claude

Most recent: claude on 2026-04-14

Evidence

claude: on or before 2026-04-14 · evidence B, D

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (12)

curl lubridatestatsutilsxml2 readr jsonlite httr2 whisker sf data.table rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

covr dplyr knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

8direct

3indirect

EGRET RivRetrieve baytrends hydrodownloadR nhdplusTools whitewater MGBT streamsampler

Code & Tests

People & History

People (14)

Maintainer (1)

Laura DeCicco

Author, Maintainer

Authors (8)

Laura DeCicco

Author, Maintainer

David Blodgett

Author · added in 2.7.7

Elise Hinman

Author · added in 2.7.19

Robert Hirsch

Author

Mike Johnson

Author · added in 2.7.7

David Lorenz

Author · added in 2.0.0

David Watkins

Author · added in 2.5.10

Joseph Zemmels

Author · added in 2.7.23

Contributors (6)

Aliesha Krall

Contributor · added in 2.7.12

Michael Mahoney

Contributor · added in 2.7.19

Lindsay Platt

Contributor · added in 2.7.17

Jordan Read

Contributor · added in 2.5.2

Lee Stanish

Contributor · added in 2.7.17

Jordan Walker

Contributor · added in 2.7.0

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Lindsay Carr

no longer listed · 2.5.2 to 2.7.16

Joeseph Zemmels

no longer listed · 2.7.19 to 2.7.22

Package Timeline

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

2.7.25Latest
2026-05-28 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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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
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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2.0.0
2014-11-14 · diff ↗
1.4.0
2014-10-13
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-10-13
Total releases: 42 / 12 yrs
License: CC0
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 4.1 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Hydrological Data and Modeling

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DeCicco, L., Blodgett, D., Hinman, E., Hirsch, R., Johnson, M., Krall, A., Lorenz, D., Mahoney, M., Platt, L., Read, J., Stanish, L., Walker, J., Watkins, D., & Zemmels, J. (2026). dataRetrieval: Retrieval Functions for USGS and EPA Hydrology and Water Quality Data (Version 2.7.25) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.dataRetrieval

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for dataRetrieval version 2.7.25 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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