R Observatory: Metrics for galaxias version 0.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

galaxias

0.1.2Package record

Describe, Package, and Share Biodiversity Data

0packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

67.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Martin WestgateCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

The Darwin Core data standard is widely used to share biodiversity information, most notably by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and its partner nodes; but converting data to this standard can be tricky. 'galaxias' is functionally similar to 'devtools', but with a focus on building Darwin Core Archives rather than R packages, enabling data to be shared and re-used with relative ease. For details see Wieczorek and colleagues (2012) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029715.

Changes in 0.1.2

clean up vignette text
add advice for including set_taxonomy() in the occurrences-example vignette

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("galaxias", 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("AtlasOfLivingAustralia/galaxias")

Development version from AtlasOfLivingAustralia/galaxias. 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-galaxias

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-galaxias

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-galaxias

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: 3.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.2

READMEYes · 535 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.2Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 9 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 88%
Help pages citing references: 11%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,036 · ~7/day · ~219/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

24830 days

69490 days

2.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on83 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

atlasoflivingaustralia/galaxias ↗Organization: AtlasOfLivingAustralia

8Stars

1Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

464Commits

5Commit identities

464 commits · Last activity 2026-01-23 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 94%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 162
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-21 · 22026-07-07 · 8

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/atlasoflivingaustralia/galaxias on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-01-23 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-01-23

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

26 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing galaxias adds 89 packages (51 with compiled code, 65 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, bslib 5.6 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 4.3.0corella

Imports (14)

cli delma dplyr fs glue httr2 jsonlite purrr readr rlang tibble usethis withr zip

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

gt here janitor knitr lubridate rmarkdown R.utils stringr testthat tidyr xml2

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)

Martin Westgate

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2025)

Shandiya Balasubramaniam

Author

Dax Kellie

Author

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-01-23
0.1.2Latest
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2026-01-23 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-01-15
requires archived package 'delma'
0.1.1
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2025-10-22 · diff ↗
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2025-07-07
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-07-07
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: MPL-2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.3.0
Download size: 400 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("galaxias")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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 galaxias version 0.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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