R Observatory: Metrics for icesConnect version 1.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

icesConnect

1.2.0Package record

Provides User Tokens for Access to ICES Web Services

5packages depend

5.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Colin MillarCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides user tokens for ICES web services that require authentication and authorization. Web services covered by this package are ICES VMS database, the ICES DATSU web services, and the ICES SharePoint site https://www.ices.dk/data/tools/Pages/WebServices.aspx.

Changes in 1.2.0

tokens are now created by logging in at https://data.ices.dk/token, which uses two-factor authentication. Tokens can no longer be requested from R using a username and password, and can not be refreshed from R. This removes the token request code that caused the errors reported in #2 and addressed by #3.
add function set_token() to store a token copied from https://data.ices.dk/token. A username is no longer needed, and set_username() now does nothing except print a message (#5).
ices_token() now explains how to get a new token, and gives the expiry date when the stored token has expired.
the token file is now only readable by the user.
bugfix: decode_token() could fail on valid tokens, as the token payload is base64url encoded. decode_token() now warns and returns an empty list for tokens that can not be decoded.

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request functions now fail gracefully: if the request can not be made (for example, no internet connection), a message is given and NULL is returned. ices_get() and ices_post() also return NULL, rather than trying to parse the response, when the server returns an error status (#6).
the messages for HTTP 401 and 403 responses now point to https://data.ices.dk/token.
remove dependency on askpass

icesConnect 1.1.4 (2025-04-30)

allow encoding to be set in ices_post()

icesConnect 1.1.3 (2025-04-03)

remove dependency on askPass

icesConnect 1.1.1 (2025-04-03)

convert to holding token in DCF file

icesConnect 1.0.0 (2022-02-09)

Same as previous version.

icesConnect 0.0.0.9007 (2022-02-09)

add JWT argument to allow no authentication requests
add encoding to request functions
add refresh argument to ices_token()
export token decoding functions
add function set_username()
added function ices_get_jwt()
initial commit with ices_token() and clear_token() functions

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("icesConnect", 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("ices-tools-prod/icesConnect")

Development version from ices-tools-prod/icesConnect. 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-icesconnect

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-icesConnect

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-icesConnect

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: 52 s · 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 1.2.0

READMEYes · 230 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 5
Examples that run: 0%4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 80%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,537 · ~16/day · ~476/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

45730 days

1.2K90 days

5.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on97 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ices-tools-prod/icesconnect ↗Organization: ices-tools-prod

0Stars

2Forks

3Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

55Commits

1Commit identities

55 commits · Last activity 2026-10-20

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Forks over time

2025-05-14 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ices-tools-prod/icesconnect on 2026-10-22.

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing icesConnect adds 9 packages (7 with compiled code, 3.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

httr base64enc jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

1indirect

Imports 5

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

icesTAF icesSAG icesVocab icesDatsu icesSD

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Colin Millar

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2022)

Releases (3)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

1.2.0Latest
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2026-10-20 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
clear_token, clear_username, get_username

added 1 export
set_token
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1.4
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2025-04-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
clear_username, get_username, ices_get, ices_post
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.0
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2022-02-10
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-02-10
Total releases: 3 / 4 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 8.9 KB

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Format

Millar, C. (2026). icesConnect: Provides User Tokens for Access to ICES Web Services (Version 1.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.icesConnect

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for icesConnect version 1.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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