R Observatory: Metrics for ecoretriever version 0.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2017-03-11. Its history is shown below.

Reason: requested by the maintainer <danmcglinn@gmail.com>

Details below reflect version 0.2.1, its last release before removal.

ecoretriever

0.2.1Package record

R Interface to the EcoData Retriever

0packages depend

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Daniel McGlinnCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides an R interface to the EcoData Retriever (http://ecodataretriever.org/) via the EcoData Retriever's command line interface. The EcoData Retriever automates the tasks of finding, downloading, and cleaning ecological datasets, and then stores them in a local database.

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/ecoretriever/ecoretriever_0.2.1.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "ecoretriever_0.2.1.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (0.2.1) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("ropensci/ecoretriever")

Development version from ropensci/ecoretriever. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.1

READMEYes · 250 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%5 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 20%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

–indirect (not tracked)

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Daniel McGlinn

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2014)

Ethan White

Author

Releases (3)

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R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2017-03-11
requested by the maintainer <danmcglinn@gmail.com>
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.2.1
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2015-11-18 · diff ↗
0.2
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2015-11-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
get_updates
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.1
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2014-09-07
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-09-07
Total releases: 3 / 12 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ecoretriever")

Format

McGlinn, D., & White, E. (n.d.). ecoretriever: R Interface to the EcoData Retriever (Version 0.2.1) [Computer software]. Retrieved October 27, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ecoretriever

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 ecoretriever version 0.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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