R Observatory: Metrics for finch version 0.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

finch

0.4.0Package record

Parse Darwin Core Files

0packages dependsuggested by 1

4.8Kdownloads / year

48.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Scott ChamberlainCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Parse and create Darwin Core (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/) Simple and Archives. Functionality includes reading and parsing all the files in a Darwin Core Archive, including the datasets and metadata; read and parse simple Darwin Core files; and validation of Darwin Core Archives.

Changes in 0.4.0

BUG FIXES

fix various package imports: plyr and rappdirs no longer needed; import EML::read_eml instead of the whole package; import digest::digest instead of whole package; import hoardr::hoard instead of whole package (#27)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("finch", 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("ropensci/finch")

Development version from ropensci/finch. 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-finch

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-finch

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.0

READMEYes · 211 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 0.4.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 11 (4 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 20%1 run in a plain check · 4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 56%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 11%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,423 · ~13/day · ~402/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

37030 days

99490 days

4.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on74 r2u2K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci-archive/finch ↗Organization: ropensci-archiveArchived

Moved from ropensci/finch.

17Stars

4Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

120Commits

6Commit identities

rstatsdarwin-coredarwincorebiodiversitygbifrr-package

120 commits · Last activity 2022-09-09

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 129
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2020-04-05 · 162026-07-07 · 17

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/finch on 2026-10-21.

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 (4)

Code of conduct (inherited from ropensci)Contributing guideIssue templatesPR template

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing finch adds 48 packages (29 with compiled code, 32 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

xml2 EML data.table digest hoardr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat crul jsonlite

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

mammalcol

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Scott Chamberlain

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2016)

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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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
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.4.0Latest
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2020-08-11 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.3.0
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2019-04-25 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.0
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2018-01-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
dwca_cache
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.0
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2016-12-23
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-12-23
Total releases: 4 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 252 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("finch")

Format

Chamberlain, S. (2020). finch: Parse Darwin Core Files (Version 0.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.finch

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 finch version 0.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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