R Observatory: Metrics for finbif version 0.10.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

finbif

0.10.0Package record

Interface for the 'Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility' API

0packages depend

7.2Kdownloads / year

21.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by William K. MorrisCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A programmatic interface to the 'Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility' ('FinBIF') API (https://api.laji.fi). 'FinBIF' aggregates Finnish biodiversity data from multiple sources in a single open access portal for researchers, citizen scientists, industry and government. 'FinBIF' allows users of biodiversity information to find, access, combine and visualise data on Finnish plants, animals and microorganisms. The 'finbif' package makes the publicly available data in 'FinBIF' easily accessible to programmers. Biodiversity information is available on taxonomy and taxon occurrence. Occurrence data can be filtered by taxon, time, location and other variables. The data accessed are conveniently preformatted for subsequent analyses.

Changes in 0.10.0

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

New variable materialEntityType added.

BREAKING CHANGES

The default value of finbif_use_dwc is now TRUE. meaning that finbif_collections() expects and returns DwC style variable names unless otherwise specified by the user.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("finbif", 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("luomus/finbif")

Development version from luomus/finbif. 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-finbif

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-finbif

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-finbif

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: 1.9 min · 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 0.10.0

READMEYes · 346 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.10.0Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 16includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 8%1 run in a plain check · 11 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (5)

How these are measured

Downloads

7.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,510 · ~20/day · ~598/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

72630 days

1.5K90 days

7.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on104 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

luomus/finbif ↗Organization: luomus

7Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

34Releases

2,191Commits

1Commit identities

apibiodiversitybiodiversity-informaticsbiodiversity-informationfinbiffinbif-accessoccurrencesr-package

2,191 commits · Last activity 2026-07-02 · Discussions: 29 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 9
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-09-03 · 72026-07-07 · 7

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

20 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 9 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/luomus/finbif on 2026-10-11.

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 (5)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templatesPR templateCODEOWNERS

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-02

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-02

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 5 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

data-raw/Makefile

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Research and citation (3)

CITATION.cffcodemeta.jsonZenodo

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing finbif adds 21 packages (15 with compiled code, 13 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: lutz 4.2 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, openssl 1.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (5)

secretbase httr2 jsonlite lutzutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

callr data.table DBI future knitr rmarkdown RSQLite testthat vcr webfakes

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)

William K. Morris

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.5.0

Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility

Copyright holder · added in 0.9.11

Finnish Museum of Natural History - Luomus

Copyright holder · added in 0.5.0

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2019)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

William Morris

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.4.1

Releases (34)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.10.0Latest
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2026-04-17 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
pattern:^fb

added 11 exports
fb_check_taxa, fb_clear_cache, fb_collections, fb_informal_groups, fb_last_mod, fb_metadata, fb_occurrence, fb_occurrence_load, fb_request_token, fb_taxa, fb_update_cache
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removed 1 export
finbif_renew_token
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finbif_renew_token
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2023-08-28 · diff ↗
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2023-06-29 · diff ↗
0.9.0
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2023-05-23 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
breaks_xy, finbif_records, hist_xy

added 1 export
finbif_update_cache
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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0.7.1
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2022-11-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
finbif_last_mod
0.7.0
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2022-09-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
taxon_id
0.6.6
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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added 1 export
from_schema
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.5.0
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2021-03-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
finbif_occurrence_load
0.4.1
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2021-01-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
common_name, scientific_name
0.4.0
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2020-12-17 · diff ↗
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2020-11-24 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2020-04-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
to_dwc, to_native, pattern:^fb
0.2.0
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0.1.0
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2019-11-19
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-11-19
Total releases: 34 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 4.4 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("finbif")

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.

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for finbif version 0.10.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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