R Observatory: Metrics for fbRads version 17.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fbRads

17.0.0Package record

Analyzing and Managing Facebook Ads from R

0packages depend

3.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gergely DarocziCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Declared funders: System1 and card.com

Wrapper functions around the Facebook Marketing 'API' to create, read, update and delete custom audiences, images, campaigns, ad sets, ads and related content.

Install

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

install.packages("fbRads", 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("daroczig/fbRads")

Development version from daroczig/fbRads. 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-fbrads

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-fbRads

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-fbRads

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTERd filesr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

checkRd: (-1) fbad_copy_ad.Rd:25: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    25 | \item{status_option}{(string) enum {ACTIVE, PAUSED, INHERITED_FROM_SOURCE}}
       |                                    ^
checkRd: (-1) fbad_copy_ad.Rd:27: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    27 | \item{rename_strategy}{(string) enum {DEEP_RENAME, ONLY_TOP_LEVEL_RENAME, NO_RENAME}}
       |                                      ^
checkRd: (-1) fbad_copy_adset.Rd:34: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    34 | \item{status_option}{(string) enum {ACTIVE, PAUSED, INHERITED_FROM_SOURCE}}
       |                                    ^
checkRd: (-1) fbad_copy_adset.Rd:36: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    36 | \item{rename_strategy}{(string) enum {DEEP_RENAME, ONLY_TOP_LEVEL_RENAME, NO_RENAME}}
       |                                      ^
checkRd: (-1) fbad_copy_campaign.Rd:31: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    31 | \item{status_option}{(string) enum {ACTIVE, PAUSED, INHERITED_FROM_SOURCE}}
       |                                    ^
checkRd: (-1) fbad_copy_campaign.Rd:33: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    33 | \item{rename_strategy}{(string) enum {DEEP_RENAME, ONLY_TOP_LEVEL_RENAME, NO_RENAME}}
       |                                      ^

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTENow
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 17.0.0

READMEYes · 400 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structured · does not mention 17.0.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 55 (8 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%6 never run
Exported functions with examples: 14%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 57%
Help pages citing references: 60%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,709 · ~9/day · ~278/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27630 days

82190 days

3.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on83 r2u4 autocran136 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

daroczig/fbrads ↗Account: daroczigArchived

160Stars

55Forks

16Open issues

2Open PRs

3Releases

333Commits

6Commit identities

rfacebookfacebook-marketing-apifacebook-adsfacebook-apimarketingadtech

License file reads as AGPL-3.0 · 333 commits · Last activity 2024-03-22 · +0.6% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 70%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-10-06 · 1562026-10-05 · 160

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/daroczig/fbrads on 2026-10-21.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing fbRads adds 10 packages (9 with compiled code, 11 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, logger 1.1 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (8)

statsRCurl jsonlite digest logger bit64 plyr data.table

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Gergely Daroczi

Author, Maintainer since 0.2 (2016)

Ajaykumar Gopal

Author

Attila Nagy

Author · added in 17.0.0

System1

Funder · added in 17.0.0

card.com

Funder · added in 17.0.0

Releases (2)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
17.0.0Latest
record
2023-08-21 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
fb_reportstats_ad, fb_stats_ad

added 15 exports
fbad_assign_users_to_account, fbad_copy_ad, fbad_copy_adset, fbad_copy_campaign, fbad_create_account, fbad_get_adaccounts, fbad_get_client_ad_accounts, fbad_get_client_pages, fbad_get_my_ad_accounts, fbad_get_owned_ad_accounts, fbad_get_owned_pages, fbad_get_pixels, fbad_list_audience, fbad_preview_ad, fbad_whoami
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.2
record
2016-04-06
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-04-06
Total releases: 2 / 10 yrs
License: AGPL-3 OSI
Download size: 34 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("fbRads")

Format

Daroczi, G., System1, card.com, Gopal, A., & Nagy, A. (2023). fbRads: Analyzing and Managing Facebook Ads from R (Version 17.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.fbRads

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for fbRads version 17.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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