R Observatory: Metrics for hgnc version 0.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

hgnc

0.3.0Package record

Import Human Gene Nomenclature

0packages depend

3.4Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ramiro MagnoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Pattern Institute

A set of routines to quickly download and import the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) data set on mapping of gene symbols to gene entries in other genomic databases or resources.

Changes in 0.3.0

Update upstream HGNC server addresses: now provided via Google Storage Bucket.
Package's source repository is now hosted at <https://github.com/patterninstitute/hgnc>.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("hgnc", 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("patterninstitute/hgnc")

Development version from patterninstitute/hgnc. 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-hgnc

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-hgnc

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-hgnc

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-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 0.3.0

READMEYes · 170 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 13 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 55%6 run in a plain check · 5 never run
Exported functions with examples: 90%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 90%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,094 · ~9/day · ~281/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31330 days

87890 days

3.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on88 r2u4 autocran29 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

patterninstitute/hgnc ↗Organization: patterninstitute

0Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

Last activity 2025-06-18

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/patterninstitute/hgnc on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-06-18 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-06-18

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing hgnc adds 37 packages (22 with compiled code, 21 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (9)

cli dplyr httr2 memoise prettyunits purrr readr stringr tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

lubridate spelling tidyr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Ramiro Magno

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2022)

Isabel Duarte

Author · added in 0.3.0

Jacob Munro

Author · added in 0.3.0

Ana-Teresa Maia

Contributor

Pattern Institute

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.1.3

Listed in earlier versions (1)

CINTESIS

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.1.4

Releases (5)

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R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.0Latest
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2025-06-18 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
%>%, download_archive

added 5 exports
crosswalk, download_hgnc_dataset, hgnc_dataset_example, latest_monthly_url, latest_quarterly_url
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.4
record
2023-08-29 · diff ↗
0.1.3
record
2023-06-29 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.2
record
2022-06-08 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.0
record
2022-03-21
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-03-21
Total releases: 5 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Download size: 871 KB

Appears in task views

Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics, Transcriptomics, and Other Omics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("hgnc")

Format

Magno, R., Pattern Institute, Duarte, I., Maia, A., & Munro, J. (2025). hgnc: Import Human Gene Nomenclature (Version 0.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.hgnc

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 hgnc version 0.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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