R Observatory: Metrics for libbib version 1.6.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

libbib

1.6.4

Various Utilities for Library Science/Assessment and Cataloging

0packages depend

3.5Kdownloads / year

53.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Tony FischettiFirst published 2021-04-156 releasesCRAN page ↗

Provides functions for validating and normalizing bibliographic codes such as ISBN, ISSN, and LCCN. Also includes functions to communicate with the WorldCat API, translate Call numbers (Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal) to their subject classifications or subclassifications, and provides various loadable data files such call number / subject crosswalks and code tables.

Install

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

install.packages("libbib", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-libbib

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-libbib

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-libbib

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.26

53.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 470 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 88%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 98%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,184 · ~10/day · ~295/mo

Releases R versions

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78490 days

3.5K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (3)

R >= 3.5.0data.tableutils

Imports (5)

curlmethodspbapply stringr xml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

assertr testthat knitr magrittr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Tony Fischetti

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Tony Fischetti

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

6 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.6.4Latest
2022-11-05 · current release · diff ↗
1.6.3
2022-08-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.6.2
2021-08-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.6
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1.5
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1.0
2021-04-15
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-04-15
Total releases: 6 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 33 KB / 6 files
Download size: 142 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("libbib")

Format

Fischetti, T. (2022). libbib: Various Utilities for Library Science/Assessment and Cataloging (Version 1.6.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.libbib

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for libbib version 1.6.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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