R Observatory: Metrics for gdldata version 0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gdldata

0.3Package record

'Global Data Lab' R API

0packages depend

5.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Aaron van GeffenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Retrieve datasets from the 'Global Data Lab' website https://globaldatalab.org directly into R data frames. Functions are provided to reference available options (indicators, levels, countries, regions) as well.

Changes in 0.3

Fix set_countries_all call leading to invalid urls
Retrieve and print number of API calls remaining in gdl_session

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("gdldata", 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("GlobalDataLab/R-data-api")

Development version from GlobalDataLab/R-data-api. 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-gdldata

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-gdldata

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-gdldata

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: 1.2 min · r-devel-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 0.3

READMEYes · 287 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 21
Examples that run: 0%19 never run
Exported functions with examples: 90%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 90%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,723 · ~15/day · ~462/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33930 days

97890 days

5.5K1 year

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Also on79 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

globaldatalab/r-data-api ↗Organization: GlobalDataLab

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

Last activity 2026-03-16

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/globaldatalab/r-data-api on 2026-10-22.

Docs source (1)

pkgdown

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gdldata adds 13 packages (9 with compiled code, 5.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4

Imports (2)

httr2methods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

magrittr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Aaron van Geffen

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2023)

Global Data Lab

Copyright holder

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2025-09-01 · current release · diff ↗
0.2
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2025-09-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
gdl_datasets, set_transposed
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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

Package metadata

First published: 2023-09-20
Total releases: 3 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4
Download size: 8.6 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("gdldata")

Format

van Geffen, A., & Global Data Lab. (2026). gdldata: 'Global Data Lab' R API (Version 0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gdldata

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 gdldata version 0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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