R Observatory: Metrics for dataone version 2.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

dataone

2.3.0Package record

R Interface to the 'DataONE' REST API

1packages dependsuggested by 1

10.1Kdownloads / year

38.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Matthew B. JonesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides read and write access to data and metadata from the 'DataONE' network https://www.dataone.org of data repositories. Each 'DataONE' repository implements a consistent repository application programming interface. Users call methods in R to access these remote repository functions, such as methods to query the metadata catalog, get access to metadata for particular data packages, and read the data objects from the data repository. Users can also insert and update data objects on repositories that support these methods.

Install

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

install.packages("dataone", 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("DataONEorg/rdataone")

Development version from DataONEorg/rdataone. 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-dataone

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-dataone

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-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 2.3.0

READMEYes · 753 wordsVignettesYes · 7 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structuredCitation fileYes · computed when R runs it

Help pages: 122 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 2%1 run in a plain check · 48 never run
Exported functions with examples: 57%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 91%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (7)

How these are measured

Downloads

10.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,322 · ~28/day · ~838/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

83230 days

2K90 days

10.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on131 r2u129 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

dataoneorg/rdataone ↗Organization: DataONEorg

35Stars

19Forks

67Open issues

0Open PRs

10Releases

1,192Commits

31Commit identities

1,192 commits · Last activity 2025-12-09

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 80%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 74
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2024-04-29 · 352026-07-07 · 35

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/dataoneorg/rdataone on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (1)

pkgdown

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing dataone adds 47 packages (30 with compiled code, 26 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, fs 1.4 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.1

Imports (11)

XML httrmethodsstringi stringr datapack plyr parsedate uuid base64enc jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

curl knitr rmarkdown testthat digest openssl xml2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

metajam

Suggests, most downloaded first

geoflow

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (12)

Matthew B. Jones

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.0.0

Carl Boettiger

Author · added in 2.0.0

Jeanette Clark

Author · added in 2.2.1

Chris Jones

Author · added in 2.0.0

Bryce Mecum

Author · added in 2.2.1

Rob Nahf

Author

Peter Slaughter

Author · added in 2.0.0

Lauren Walker

Author · added in 2.0.0

Scott Chamberlain

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Edmund Hart

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Jordan Read

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Regents of the University of California

Copyright holder · added in 2.0.0

Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2013)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Matthew Jones

no longer listed · 1.0.0

Releases (11)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-12-10
2.3.0Latest
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2025-12-10 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-12-04
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.2.2
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2022-06-10 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.2.1
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2020-12-06 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
2.1.4
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2020-02-16 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-01-31
2.1.3
record
2020-01-31 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-01-13
policy violation Repeated failures on Internet access

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R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
2.1.2
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2019-01-29 · diff ↗
2.1.1
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2018-06-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
downloadObject
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
2.1.0
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2017-08-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
getDataPackage, getMetadataMember
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
2.0.1
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2016-08-30 · diff ↗
2.0.0
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2016-05-27 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
tableDescriber.registry

added 76 exports
AuthenticationManager, CNode, CertificateManager, D1Client, D1Node, D1Object, EMLParser, MNode, archive, asDataFrame, convert.csv, createD1Object, createDataPackage, createObject, d1IdentifierSearch, d1SolrQuery, data.characterEncoding, data.formatFamily, data.tableAttributeNames, data.tableAttributeOrientation, data.tableAttributeStorageTypes, data.tableAttributeTypes, data.tableFieldDelimiter, data.tableMissingValueCodes, data.tableQuoteCharacter, data.tableSkipLinesHeader, describeObject, documented.d1Identifiers, documented.entityNames, documented.sizes and 46 more
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2014-08-29
'dataonelibs' was
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
R
R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
1.0.0
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2013-02-25
R
R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2013-02-25
Total releases: 11 / 13 yrs
License: Apache License 2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.1
Download size: 307 KB

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("dataone")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for dataone version 2.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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