R Observatory: Metrics for gesisdata version 0.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gesisdata

0.1.2Package record

Reproducible Data Retrieval from the GESIS Data Archive

0packages depend

2.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Frederick SoltCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

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'.

Changes in 0.1.2

Use Firefox rather than the Chrome beta as the RSelenium browser.

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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: 1.3 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 · 147 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 0%1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 78%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

gesisdata: Reproducible Retrieval of GESIS Data Archive Datasets HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,040 · ~8/day · ~230/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30030 days

73390 days

2.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on72 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

fsolt/gesisdata ↗Account: fsolt

6Stars

0Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

47Commits

1Commit identities

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

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2022-02-20 · 52026-07-07 · 6

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/fsolt/gesisdata on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2023-07-03 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2023-07-03

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gesisdata adds 60 packages (34 with compiled code, 37 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, readxl 2.1 MB.

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.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Frederick Solt

Dave Peterson

Contributor · added in 0.1.2

Releases (2)

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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 4.2.0 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

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

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 gesisdata version 0.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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