R Observatory: Metrics for dataspice version 1.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

dataspice

1.1.1

Create Lightweight Schema.org Descriptions of Data

0packages depend

5Kdownloads / year

72.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Bryce MecumCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

The goal of 'dataspice' is to make it easier for researchers to create basic, lightweight, and concise metadata files for their datasets. These basic files can then be used to make useful information available during analysis, create a helpful dataset "README" webpage, and produce more complex metadata formats to aid dataset discovery. Metadata fields are based on the 'Schema.org' and 'Ecological Metadata Language' standards.

Changes in 1.1.1

This release updates dataspice's tests to be compatible with the upcoming stringr 1.6.0 release.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("dataspice", 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/dataspice")

Development version from ropensci/dataspice. 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-dataspice

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-dataspice

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: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.1

READMEYes · 1,348 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 35 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 7%1 run in a plain check · 13 never run
Exported functions with examples: 92%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 58%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

dataspice Overview HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,368 · ~14/day · ~416/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36230 days

96390 days

5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on124 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/dataspice ↗Organization: ropensci

163Stars

26Forks

32Open issues

3Open PRs

2Releases

360Commits

18Commit identities

unconf18schema-orgmetadatadatadatasetrr-packagerstats

360 commits · Last activity 2026-09-30 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 98%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-26 · 1632026-08-05 · 163

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/dataspice on 2026-10-11.

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 (1)

Code of conduct (inherited from ropensci)

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing dataspice adds 81 packages (43 with compiled code, 64 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, bslib 5.6 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (15)

purrr EML fs jsonlite whisker readr stringrtoolstibble shiny rhandsontable dplyr tidyr ggplot2 magrittr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

testthat kableExtra knitr rmarkdown servr listviewer maps

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (10)

Bryce Mecum

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2020)

https://github.com/amoeba

Carl Boettiger

Author

https://github.com/cboettig

Scott Chamberlain

Author

https://github.com/sckott

Auriel Fournier

Author

https://github.com/aurielfournier

Kelly Hondula

Author

https://github.com/khondula

Anna Krystalli

Author

https://github.com/annakrystalli

Maëlle Salmon

Author

https://github.com/maelle

Kate Webbink

Author

https://github.com/magpiedin

Kara Woo

Author

https://github.com/karawoo

Irene Steves

Contributor

https://github.com/isteves

Releases (3)

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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-11-04
Total releases: 3 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 2.8 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("dataspice")

Format

Mecum, B., Boettiger, C., Chamberlain, S., Fournier, A., Hondula, K., Krystalli, A., Salmon, M., Steves, I., Webbink, K., & Woo, K. (2025). dataspice: Create Lightweight Schema.org Descriptions of Data (Version 1.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.dataspice

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 dataspice version 1.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-17, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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