R Observatory: Metrics for ebvcube version 0.5.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ebvcube

0.5.3Package record

Working with netCDF for Essential Biodiversity Variables

0packages depend

3.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Emmanuel Oceguera ConchasCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

The concept of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBV, https://geobon.org/ebvs/what-are-ebvs/) comes with a data structure based on the Network Common Data Form (netCDF). The 'ebvcube' 'R' package provides functionality to easily create, access and visualise this data. The EBV netCDFs can be downloaded from the EBV Data Portal: Christian Langer/ iDiv (2020) https://portal.geobon.org/.

Changes in 0.5.3

Bug fixes

ebv_download / ebv_i_check_url: fix undefined variable used as timeout in external URL connection checks
ebvcube-package: complete truncated sentence in package-level documentation

Minor changes

ebv_download: wrap external portal calls (dataset list, metadata, DOI redirect, file downloads) in tryCatch for informative error messages

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ebvcube", 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("EBVCube/ebvcube")

Development version from EBVCube/ebvcube. 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-ebvcube

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.8 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-24
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-17
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK5 OK2026-05-31
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-03
OK14 OK2026-04-24
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-23
OK14 OK2026-04-04
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-03
OK14 OK2026-03-16
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-12
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.3

READMEYes · 1,091 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5.3Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 19includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 81%13 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,013 · ~10/day · ~295/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

57130 days

1.4K90 days

3.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on110 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ebvcube/ebvcube ↗Organization: EBVcube

13Stars

5Forks

2Open issues

2Open PRs

10Releases

984Commits

7Commit identities

biodiversity-standardsessential-biodiversity-variablesnetcdf4r-package

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 984 commits · Last activity 2026-06-01 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 94%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 36
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-03 · 72026-07-31 · 13

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

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

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 (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

Lint, format, editor (3)

lintrLint workflowRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ebvcube adds 57 packages (38 with compiled code, 59 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB. 3 more not on CRAN are not measured.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (17)

checkmate curl DelayedArray ggplot2 HDF5Array httr jsonlite memusemethodsncdf4 ncmeta reshape2 rhdf5 stringr terra tidyterra withr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr lintr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Emmanuel Oceguera Conchas

Author, Maintainer since 0.5.2 (2025) · added in 0.5.2

Nestor Fernandez

Author

Christian Langer

Author

Henrique Miguel Pereira

Author

Luise Quoss

Author

Jose Valdez

Author

Previously maintained by Luise Quoss (0.1.1 to 0.5.1).

Releases (15)

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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-05-30
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2026-05-07
issues were not corrected in time
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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2025-03-02
issues were not corrected in time
0.3.3
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2024-12-17 · diff ↗
0.3.1
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2024-12-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
ebv_metadata
0.2.3
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2024-07-10 · diff ↗
0.2.1
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2024-06-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
ebv_create_taxonomy
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

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2024-02-21 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-10-11
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2023-07-29
multiple policy violations On Internet access Spamming in HTML the email address of a team member
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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2023-04-11
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2022-11-09
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-11-09
Total releases: 15 / 4 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Bundled data: 84 KB / 1 file
Download size: 2.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ebvcube")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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 ebvcube version 0.5.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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