R Observatory: Metrics for gtrendsR version 1.5.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gtrendsR

1.5.2Package record

Perform and Display Google Trends Queries

2packages depend

31.4Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Philippe MassicotteCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

An interface for retrieving and displaying the information returned online by Google Trends is provided. Trends (number of hits) over the time as well as geographic representation of the results can be displayed.

Changes in 1.5.2

Various internal changes to better deal with missing data returned by queries (#418, #419).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("gtrendsR", 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("PMassicotte/gtrendsR")

Development version from PMassicotte/gtrendsR. 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-gtrendsr

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-gtrendsR

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-gtrendsR

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: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-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 1.5.2

READMEYes · 148 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.5.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6
Examples that run: 0%3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 50%
Help pages citing references: 17%

How these are measured

Downloads

31.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,100 · ~86/day · ~2.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.6K30 days

4.1K90 days

31.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on104 r2u9 autocran167 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

pmassicotte/gtrendsr ↗Account: PMassicotte

372Stars

110Forks

35Open issues

0Open PRs

17Releases

604Commits

20Commit identities

googlegoogle-trends

604 commits · Last activity 2026-08-11 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.5.2.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.5.2 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-10-13 · 3582026-08-10 · 372

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/pmassicotte/gtrendsr on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gtrendsR adds 22 packages (11 with compiled code, 31 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (4)

ggplot2 jsonlite anytime curl

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

globaltrends trendyy

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Philippe Massicotte

Author, Maintainer since 1.3.0 (2015)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author

Releases (18)

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-11-28
Total releases: 18 / 11 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 725 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.5 MB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("gtrendsR")

Format

Massicotte, P., & Eddelbuettel, D. (2025). gtrendsR: Perform and Display Google Trends Queries (Version 1.5.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gtrendsR

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 gtrendsR version 1.5.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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