R Observatory: Metrics for fulltext version 2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2021-11-22. Its history is shown below.

Reason: policy violation. Writes in prohibited area ~/Library/Caches/R on macOS

Details below reflect version 2.0, its last release before removal.

fulltext

2.0Package record

Full Text of 'Scholarly' Articles Across Many Data Sources

0packages depend

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Scott ChamberlainCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Declared funder: rOpenSci

Provides a single interface to many sources of full text 'scholarly' data, including 'Biomed Central', Public Library of Science, 'Pubmed Central', 'eLife', 'F1000Research', 'PeerJ', 'Pensoft', 'Hindawi', 'arXiv' 'preprints', and more. Functionality included for searching for articles, downloading full or partial text, downloading supplementary materials, converting to various data formats.

Changes in 2.0

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

ft_abstract(): change default from value from "plos" to "crossref" (#235)

BUG FIXES

fix PLOS internals for ft_abstract() (#234)
fix how Miscrosoft Academic query was structured before being sent off - affecting ft_search() (#236)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/fulltext/fulltext_2.0.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "fulltext_2.0.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (2.0) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("ropensci/fulltext")

Development version from ropensci/fulltext. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 41 (19 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 23%6 run in a plain check · 20 never run
Exported functions with examples: 66%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 47%
Help pages citing references: 5%

How these are measured

Downloads

fulltext Releases R versions

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (16)

crul magrittr xml2 jsonlite rplos rcrossref microdemic aRxiv rentrez data.table hoardr pdftools storr tibble digest fauxpas

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

roxygen2 testthat pubchunks vcr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

–indirect (not tracked)

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Scott Chamberlain

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2015)

rOpenSci

Funder · added in 1.5.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Will Pearse

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.1.0

Releases (14)

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R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-11-22
policy violation Writes in prohibited area ~/Library/Caches/R on macOS
2.0
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2021-06-12 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.7.0
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2021-02-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
as_ftdmurl, ft_cr_links
1.6.0
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2020-10-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
ftd_doi, ftd_fetch_patterns, ftdoi_cache
1.5.0
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2020-07-02 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
ft_type_sum
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.4.0
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2019-12-13 · diff ↗
1.3.0
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2019-06-27 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.2.0
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2019-01-22 · diff ↗
1.1.0
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2018-10-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
as.ft_data, cache_file_info, scopus_search_loop
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.0.1
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2018-02-07 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2018-01-17 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
cache_clear, pdfx_html, pdfx_targz

added 15 exports
biorxiv_search, ft_abstract, ft_abstract_ls, ft_chunks, ft_collect, ft_get_ls, ft_links_ls, ft_search_ls, ft_table, ft_tabularize, ft_text, ftxt_cache, microsoft_links, microsoft_search, scopus_search

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R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.8
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2016-07-23 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
bmc_xml
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.1.6
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2016-01-22 · diff ↗
0.1.4
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2015-10-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
eupmc_fields, eupmc_search, eupmc_xml, ft_get_si, ft_links
0.1.0
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2015-08-06
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-08-06
Total releases: 14 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("fulltext")

Format

Chamberlain, S., & rOpenSci. (n.d.). fulltext: Full Text of 'Scholarly' Articles Across Many Data Sources (Version 2.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved October 22, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=fulltext

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 fulltext version 2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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