R Observatory: Metrics for instaR version 0.2.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

instaR

0.2.4

Access to Instagram API via R

0packages depend

2.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Pablo BarberaFirst published 2015-11-102 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides an interface to the Instagram API <https://instagram.com/ developer/>, which allows R users to download public pictures filtered by hashtag, popularity, user or location, and to access public users' profile data.

Install

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

install.packages("instaR", 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("pablobarbera/instaR")

Development version from pablobarbera/instaR. 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-instar

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-instaR

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-instaR

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 51 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,449 · ~8/day · ~232/mo

Releases R versions

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19030 days

71290 days

2.8K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ pablobarbera/instar

105Stars

42Forks

9Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

95Commits

6Contributors

95 commits · Last activity 2017-06-02

Stars over time

2024-08-27 · 1052026-07-07 · 105

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Checks run against github.com/pablobarbera/instar on 2026-08-16.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (3)

R >= 2.12.0httr jsonlite

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (0)

Author records are not tracked yet for this package.

Listed in earlier versions (3)

Pablo Barbera

no longer listed · 0.2.2 to 0.2.4

Tiago Dantas

no longer listed · 0.2.2 to 0.2.4

Jonne Guyt

no longer listed · 0.2.2 to 0.2.4

Package Timeline

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.2.4Latest
2016-08-17 · current release · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-11-10
Total releases: 2 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.12.0
Download size: 11 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for instaR version 0.2.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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