R Observatory: Metrics for exiftoolr version 0.2.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

exiftoolr

0.2.8

ExifTool Functionality from R

3packages depend

16.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Joshua O'BrienFirst published 2018-08-0617 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Reads, writes, and edits EXIF and other file metadata using ExifTool https://exiftool.org/, returning read results as a data frame. ExifTool supports many different metadata formats including EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP and ID3, Lyrics3, as well as the maker notes of many digital cameras by Canon, Casio, DJI, FLIR, FujiFilm, GE, GoPro, HP, JVC/Victor, Kodak, Leaf, Minolta/Konica-Minolta, Motorola, Nikon, Nintendo, Olympus/Epson, Panasonic/Leica, Pentax/Asahi, Phase One, Reconyx, Ricoh, Samsung, Sanyo, Sigma/Foveon and Sony.

Install

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

install.packages("exiftoolr", 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("JoshOBrien/exiftoolr")

Development version from JoshOBrien/exiftoolr. 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-exiftoolr

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-exiftoolr

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-exiftoolr

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 56 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 25%

Downloads

16.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,435 · ~46/day · ~1.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

68530 days

3K90 days

16.7K1 year

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Also on147 r2u20 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ joshobrien/exiftoolr

26Stars

3Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

175Commits

2Contributors

rexiftoolimage-processingmetadata-extraction

175 commits · Last activity 2026-07-09 · +8.3% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-11 · 232026-08-11 · 26

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/joshobrien/exiftoolr on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Dev Container

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (5)

backports curl jsonlite zip data.table

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

pannotator telegramR xmpdf

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Joshua O'Brien

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Joshua O'Brien

Author, Maintainer

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Phil Harvey

no longer listed · 0.1.0

Package Timeline

17 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.8Latest
2025-04-20 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.7
2025-01-14 · diff ↗
0.2.6
2024-07-19 · diff ↗
0.2.5
2024-07-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.4
2024-03-29 · diff ↗
0.2.3
2023-10-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.2.2
2023-02-22 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2022-10-04 · diff ↗
0.1.8
2022-06-09 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.7
2021-11-18 · diff ↗
0.1.6
2021-11-06 · diff ↗

Show 10 earlier events

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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.5
2020-11-10 · diff ↗
0.1.4
2020-09-03 · diff ↗
0.1.3
2020-05-30 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.2
2019-06-07 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.1
2018-09-12 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2018-08-06
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-08-06
Total releases: 17 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 1.7 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("exiftoolr")

Format

O'Brien, J. (2025). exiftoolr: ExifTool Functionality from R (Version 0.2.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.exiftoolr

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for exiftoolr version 0.2.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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