R Observatory: Metrics for handlr version 0.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

handlr

0.3.1Package record

Convert Among Citation Formats

0packages dependsuggested by 1

6.9Kdownloads / year

78.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Brenton M. WiernikCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Converts among many citation formats, including 'BibTeX', 'Citeproc', 'Codemeta', 'RDF XML', 'RIS', 'Schema.org', and 'Citation File Format'. A low level 'R6' class is provided, as well as stand-alone functions for each citation format for both read and write.

Changes in 0.3.1

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

Update maintainer to Brenton M. Wiernik.
Improved support for Citation File Format (CFF) and codemeta.json

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("handlr", 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("ropensci/handlr")

Development version from ropensci/handlr. 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-handlr

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-handlr

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-handlr

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
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.1

READMEYes · 123 wordsVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 0.3.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 18 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%15 run in a plain check (4 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 93%
Help pages citing references: 28%

How these are measured

Downloads

6.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,761 · ~19/day · ~576/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

39930 days

96090 days

6.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on66 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/handlr ↗Organization: ropensci

37Stars

4Forks

12Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

140Commits

5Commit identities

citationsdoidigital-object-identifiermetadatabibtexciteproccrossciteris

140 commits · Last activity 2025-03-04

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 43
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

14 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 8 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/handlr on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (4)

Code of conduct (inherited from ropensci)Contributing guideIssue templatesPR template

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 4 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing handlr adds 14 packages (10 with compiled code, 6.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (6)

jsonlite crul xml2 urltools mime yaml

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

testthat jsonld data.table bibtex

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

rorcid

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Brenton M. Wiernik

Author, Maintainer since 0.3.1 (2025) · added in 0.3.1

Scott Chamberlain

Author

Thierry Onkelinx

Contributor · added in 0.3.1

Previously maintained by Scott Chamberlain (0.1.0 to 0.3.0).

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3.1Latest
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2025-03-04 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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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
0.3.0
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2020-10-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
cff_reader, cff_writer
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2.0
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2019-08-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
handl_to_df
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.0
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2019-02-27
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-02-27
Total releases: 4 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 48 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("handlr")

Format

Wiernik, B. M., Chamberlain, S., & Onkelinx, T. (2025). handlr: Convert Among Citation Formats (Version 0.3.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.handlr

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 handlr version 0.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-19, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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