R Observatory: Metrics for dbx version 0.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

dbx

0.4.0

A Fast, Easy-to-Use Database Interface

1packages depend

10.8Kdownloads / year

69.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Andrew KaneFirst published 2018-07-0513 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides select, insert, update, upsert, and delete database operations. Supports 'PostgreSQL', 'MySQL', 'SQLite', and more, and plays nicely with the 'DBI' package.

Install

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

install.packages("dbx", 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("ankane/dbx")

Development version from ankane/dbx. 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-dbx

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-dbx

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-dbx

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 56 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.35

69.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

1

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
NOTE2026-06-08
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 999 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 88%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

10.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,540 · ~30/day · ~898/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

40130 days

1.7K90 days

10.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on118 r2u9 autocran58 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ ankane/dbx

189Stars

15Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

560Commits

2Contributors

560 commits · Last activity 2026-01-07 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-02-23 · 1862026-07-07 · 189

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ankane/dbx on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

DBI

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

testthat urltools RSQLite RMariaDB RMySQL RPostgres RPostgreSQL hms jsonlite blob odbc

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

dataquieR

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Andrew Kane

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Andrew Kane

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.4.0Latest
2025-03-18 · current release · diff ↗
0.3.2
2024-06-03 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.3.1
2023-12-11 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2023-12-01 · diff ↗
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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
0.2.8
2021-01-17 · diff ↗
0.2.7
2020-09-08 · diff ↗
0.2.6
2020-06-15 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.2.5
2019-04-25 · diff ↗

Show 6 earlier events

0.2.4
2019-01-03 · diff ↗
0.2.3
2018-10-30 · diff ↗
0.2.2
2018-09-15 · diff ↗
0.2.1
2018-08-03 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2018-07-05
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-07-05
Total releases: 13 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 22 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Kane, A. (2025). dbx: A Fast, Easy-to-Use Database Interface (Version 0.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.dbx

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for dbx version 0.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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