R Observatory: Metrics for gesisdata version 0.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gesisdata

0.1.2

Reproducible Data Retrieval from the GESIS Data Archive

0packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Frederick SoltFirst published 2020-06-262 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Reproducible, programmatic retrieval of datasets from the GESIS Data Archive. The GESIS Data Archive https://search.gesis.org makes available thousands of invaluable datasets, but researchers using these datasets are caught in a bind. The archive's terms and conditions bar dissemination of downloaded datasets to third parties, but to ensure that one's work can be reproduced, assessed, and built upon by others, one must provide access to the raw data one has employed. The 'gesisdata' package cuts this knot by providing registered users with programmatic, reproducible access to GESIS datasets from within 'R'.

Install

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

install.packages("gesisdata", 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("fsolt/gesisdata")

Development version from fsolt/gesisdata. 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-gesisdata

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-gesisdata

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-gesisdata

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

9

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 147 wordsVignettesYes · staticpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 78%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,783 · ~7/day · ~219/mo

Releases R versions

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15730 days

63590 days

2.6K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ fsolt/gesisdata

6Stars

0Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

47Commits

1Contributors

47 commits · Last activity 2023-07-03 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2022-02-20 · 52026-07-07 · 6

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/fsolt/gesisdata on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (9)

dplyrforeignmagrittr netstat rio RSelenium stringrtoolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Frederick Solt

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Frederick Solt

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Contributors (1)

Dave Peterson

Contributor · added in 0.1.2

Copyright holders (1)

Frederick Solt

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

2 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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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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2023-07-03 · current release · diff ↗
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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
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2020-06-26
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-06-26
Total releases: 2 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 1.3 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("gesisdata")

Format

Solt, F., & Peterson, D. (2023). gesisdata: Reproducible Data Retrieval from the GESIS Data Archive (Version 0.1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gesisdata

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gesisdata version 0.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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