R Observatory: Metrics for duckdbfs version 0.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

duckdbfs

0.1.2Package record

High Performance Remote File System, Database and 'Geospatial' Access Using 'duckdb'

4packages dependsuggested by 2

25.4Kdownloads / year

67.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Carl BoettigerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides friendly wrappers for creating 'duckdb'-backed connections to tabular datasets ('csv', parquet, etc) on local or remote file systems. This mimics the behaviour of "open_dataset" in the 'arrow' package, but in addition to 'S3' file system also generalizes to any list of 'http' URLs.

Changes in 0.1.2

write_geo() now takes argument, srs for projection information
to_geojson() now writes all atomic columns, not just an id column.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("duckdbfs", 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("cboettig/duckdbfs")

Development version from cboettig/duckdbfs. 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-duckdbfs

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-duckdbfs

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-duckdbfs

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: 59 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-30
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-04
OK12 OK, 1 FAILURE2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

Show 6 earlier changesHide 6 earlier changes

ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-24
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-17
OK13 OK2026-05-15
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-13
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.2

READMEYes · 1,607 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 21
Examples that run: 94%15 run in a plain check (15 of them under a condition) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 80%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 65%
Help pages citing references: 10%

How these are measured

Downloads

25.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,934 · ~70/day · ~2.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.7K30 days

4.8K90 days

25.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.3K r2u7 autocran425 conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

cboettig/duckdbfs ↗Account: cboettig

101Stars

6Forks

10Open issues

1Open PRs

2Releases

214Commits

4Commit identities

214 commits · Last activity 2026-04-21 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.1.2.99, ahead of CRAN 0.1.2 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 83%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 11
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-25 · 922026-07-07 · 101

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/cboettig/duckdbfs on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-04-21 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-04-21

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing duckdbfs adds 25 packages (14 with compiled code, 28 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, duckdb 7.9 MB, fs 1.4 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2

Imports (6)

DBI dbplyr dplyr duckdb fs glue

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

curl sf jsonlite spelling minioclient testthat (>= 3.0.0)

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

6indirect

Imports 4

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

rfishbase neonUtilities neonstore gbifdb

Suggests, most downloaded first

duckspatial overtureR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Carl Boettiger

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2023)

Michael D. Sumner

Contributor · added in 0.0.5

Releases (11)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.2Latest
record
2025-10-12 · current release · diff ↗
0.1.1
record
2025-07-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
duckdb_config, duckdb_connect, duckdb_extensions, duckdb_get_config, duckdb_reset, to_geojson
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.0
record
2025-04-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
duckdb_secrets, load_h3, to_h3j, write_geo
0.0.9
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2024-12-17 · diff ↗
0.0.8
record
2024-12-09 · diff ↗
0.0.7
record
2024-08-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
as_dataset
0.0.5
record
2024-08-17 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.0.4
record
2024-02-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
as_view, spatial_join, st_read_meta
0.0.3
record
2023-10-19 · diff ↗
0.0.2
record
2023-09-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
load_spatial, to_sf, write_dataset
0.0.1
record
2023-08-09
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-08-09
Total releases: 11 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2
Download size: 509 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("duckdbfs")

Format

Boettiger, C., & Sumner, M. D. (2025). duckdbfs: High Performance Remote File System, Database and 'Geospatial' Access Using 'duckdb' (Version 0.1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.duckdbfs

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for duckdbfs version 0.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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