R Observatory: Metrics for ebirdst version 4.2023.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ebirdst

4.2023.0Package record

Access and Analyze eBird Status and Trends Data Products

0packages dependsuggested by 1

8Kdownloads / year

72.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Matthew Strimas-MackeyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Tools for accessing and analyzing eBird Status and Trends Data Products (https://science.ebird.org/en/status-and-trends). eBird (https://ebird.org/home) is a global database of bird observations collected by member of the public. eBird Status and Trends uses these data to model global bird distributions, abundances, and population trends at a high spatial and temporal resolution.

Changes in 4.2023.0

Transition to having all the load_*() functions download directly rather than having to call ebirdst_download_status()
Converted vignettes to Quarto and moved them to website-only pkgdown articles; the package no longer ships built-in vignettes to CRAN (documentation lives at <https://ebird.github.io/ebirdst/>)
Add ebirdst_regional_stats() to load regional summary statistics for all species
Add ebirdst_data_inventory() and ebirdst_delete() to manage files downloaded by ebirdst
Move to air auto-formatting and jarl linting
Efficiency improvements for grid_sample()
grid_sample_stratified() gains a cell_quantile_cap argument to limit how many observations a single chronically over-sampled site (e.g. a bird feeder) can contribute

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ebirdst", 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("ebird/ebirdst")

Development version from ebird/ebirdst. 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-ebirdst

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-ebirdst

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-ebirdst

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: 2.4 min · r-release-macos-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 4.2023.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 4.2023.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 36 (5 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 32%9 run in a plain check · 19 never run
Exported functions with examples: 90%
Documented parameters: 90%
Return-value docs: 93%
Help pages citing references: 3%

How these are measured

Downloads

8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,038 · ~22/day · ~666/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

79830 days

2.2K90 days

8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on97 r2u9 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ebird/ebirdst ↗Organization: ebird

38Stars

2Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

147Commits

6Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 147 commits · Last activity 2026-10-06 · +2.7% stars, 30d · Default branch at 4.2023.1, ahead of CRAN 4.2023.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 91%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-12 · 322026-10-08 · 38

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ebird/ebirdst on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux and macOS

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-06

pkgdown site last built 2026-08-21

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (5)

Lint workflowjarlAirVS CodeRStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-03-16
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Named in .gitignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: at least 3 crediting it in the message

From outside contributors

Claude Code
Pull requests: 1 from outside contributors, first on 2026-10-06

Models named in its commits

Claude Sonnet 53 commits · Jul to Aug 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ebirdst adds 39 packages (25 with compiled code, 44 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, arrow 4.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (15)

arrow dplyrgrDevicesjsonlite magrittr RColorBrewer rlang scales sfstatsstringr terratoolsutilsviridisLite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

fields ggplot2 lubridate PresenceAbsence rnaturalearth scico testthat tidyr withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

gdpar

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Matthew Strimas-Mackey

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2020)

Tom Auer

Author

Daniel Fink

Author

Shawn Ligocki

Author · added in 0.3.0

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Copyright holder

Previously maintained by Tom Auer (0.1.0).

Releases (27)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

4.2023.0Latest
record
2026-07-20 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
ebirdst_data_inventory, ebirdst_delete, ebirdst_ppms, ebirdst_regional_stats
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
3.2023.1
record
2025-10-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
convert_ppy_to_cumulative, vectorize_trends
3.2023.0
record
2025-05-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
ebirdst_download_data_coverage, load_data_coverage
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
3.2022.3
record
2024-03-05 · diff ↗
3.2022.2
record
2024-02-24 · diff ↗
3.2022.1
record
2023-12-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 15 exports
abundance_palette, ebirdst_download, ebirdst_extent, ebirdst_habitat, ebirdst_ppms_ts, ebirdst_subset, load_pds, load_pis, load_predictions, load_stixels, parse_raster_dates, plot_pds, plot_pis, project_extent, stixelize
3.2022.0
record
2023-11-15 · diff ↗ ·
removed 16 exports
abundance_palette, ebirdst_download, ebirdst_extent, ebirdst_habitat, ebirdst_ppms, ebirdst_ppms_ts, ebirdst_subset, load_pds, load_pis, load_predictions, load_stixels, parse_raster_dates, plot_pds, plot_pis, project_extent, stixelize

added 9 exports
ebirdst_download_status, ebirdst_download_trends, ebirdst_palettes, list_available_pis, load_pi, load_ppm, load_regional_stats, load_trends, rasterize_trends
2.2021.3
record
2023-05-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
calculate_mcc_f1
2.2021.2
record
2023-04-27 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
sample_case_control, sample_grid

added 3 exports
assign_to_grid, grid_sample, grid_sample_stratified
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.2021.1
record
2023-04-06 · diff ↗
2.2021.0
record
2023-01-18 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
label_raster_stack
1.2021.3
record
2023-01-11 · diff ↗

Show 24 earlier eventsHide 24 earlier events

1.2021.2
record
2023-01-07 · diff ↗
1.2021.1
record
2022-12-07 · diff ↗
1.2021.0
record
2022-11-09 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-07-09
1.2020.1
record
2022-07-09 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-07-08
policy violation Use of ~/Desktop
1.2020.0
record
2022-07-08 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
calc_bins, calc_full_extent, stixel_footprint

added 3 exports
ebirdst_data_dir, ebirdst_version, load_ranges
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.3.5
record
2022-04-01 · diff ↗
0.3.4
record
2022-03-16 · diff ↗
0.3.3
record
2021-11-12 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-09-15
0.3.2
record
2021-09-15 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-08-25
policy violation Use of ~/.local/share, not cleaned up
0.3.1
record
2021-08-18 · diff ↗
0.3.0
record
2021-08-10 · diff ↗ ·
removed 6 exports
calc_effective_extent, compute_ppms, load_test_preds, map_centroids, plot_all_ppms, plot_binary_by_time

added 11 exports
ebirdst_habitat, ebirdst_ppms, ebirdst_ppms_ts, get_species, load_config, load_pds, load_predictions, load_stixels, plot_pds, set_ebirdst_access_key, stixel_footprint
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.2
record
2021-01-16 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2.1
record
2020-03-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
%>%
0.2.0
record
2020-02-27 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
load_pds, load_test_data, plot_pds

added 4 exports
date_to_st_week, get_species_path, load_fac_map_parameters, load_test_preds
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.0
record
2019-04-04
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-04-04
Total releases: 27 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 94 KB / 3 files
Download size: 236 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ebirdst")

Format

Strimas-Mackey, M., Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Auer, T., Fink, D., & Ligocki, S. (2026). ebirdst: Access and Analyze eBird Status and Trends Data Products (Version 4.2023.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ebirdst

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 ebirdst version 4.2023.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-19, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

Report a problem with this page →