R Observatory: Metrics for evolution version 0.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

evolution

0.1.1Package record

A Client for 'Evolution Cloud API'

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

27.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Andre LeiteCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides an 'R' interface to the 'Evolution API' https://evoapicloud.com, enabling sending and receiving 'WhatsApp' messages directly from 'R'. Functions include sending text, media (image/video/document), audio, stickers, geographic locations, contacts, polls, interactive lists and button messages. Also includes number verification and structured CLI logging for debugging.

Changes in 0.1.1

Bug fixes

Defined the null-coalescing operator %||% internally. It was used by .evo_post() and send_contact() but is only part of base R since 4.4.0, so the package failed to load on R 4.2--4.3 (the declared minimum is R 4.2.0).
send_*() functions now normalise the recipient number, stripping formatting characters (spaces, dashes, parentheses and a leading +) before the request. Previously a number such as "+5581999990000" was sent verbatim and could be rejected by the API, even though it was shown as valid in the documentation. JIDs (values containing @, e.g. group ids ...@g.us) are passed through unchanged.
.normalize_media() no longer silently treats a mistyped file path as base64. It now requires standard (padded) base64 and emits a path-aware error pointing at the resolved location when a file is not found.

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Corrected the copyright holder in LICENSE, which still referenced an unrelated package.

Documentation

Unified the API reference URL across README and DESCRIPTION (https://evoapicloud.com).
Removed a dead "apikey" redaction branch in the verbose logger (the API key is only ever sent as a header, never in the request body).

Internal

Added a testthat suite covering the offline helpers (jid(), .normalize_media(), .compact(), .evo_path(), .assert_scalar_string()) and the argument-validation guard clauses of the exported send_*() functions and evo_client().
Added .Rhistory and .DS_Store to .Rbuildignore.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("evolution", 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("StrategicProjects/evolution")

Development version from StrategicProjects/evolution. 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-evolution

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-evolution

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-evolution

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: 56 s · r-oldrel-windows-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 0.1.1

READMEYes · 659 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 20 (6 internal)
Examples that run: 7%1 run in a plain check · 13 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,434 · ~7/day · ~222/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27730 days

83090 days

2.7K1 year

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Also on78 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

strategicprojects/evolution ↗Organization: StrategicProjects

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

13Commits

1Commit identities

13 commits · Last activity 2026-09-29 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-07-07 · 02026-08-21 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/strategicprojects/evolution 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 (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-29

pkgdown site last built 2026-02-27, before release 0.1.1 (2026-06-14)

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-06-14
Seen in the repository: CLAUDE.md
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Named in .gitignore: .claude
Commits: at least 6 crediting it in the message

From outside contributors

Claude Code
Pull requests: 3 from outside contributors, first on 2026-06-14

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.83 commits · Jun 2026
Claude Opus 5.53 commits · Sep 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

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing evolution adds 15 packages (11 with compiled code, 6.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (4)

httr2 cli jsonlite base64enc

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

testthat knitr rmarkdown pkgdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Andre Leite

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2025)

Diogo Bezerra

Author

Hugo Vasconcelos

Author · added in 0.1.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Hugo Vaconcelos

no longer listed · 0.0.1

Releases (3)

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0.1.1Latest
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2026-06-14 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0
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2026-02-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
check_is_whatsapp, send_list
0.0.1
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2025-11-20
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-11-20
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Download size: 50 KB

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citation("evolution")

Format

Leite, A., Bezerra, D., & Vasconcelos, H. (2026). evolution: A Client for 'Evolution Cloud API' (Version 0.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.evolution

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for evolution version 0.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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