R Observatory: Metrics for lobsteR version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

lobsteR

1.0.0Package record

Access and Process 'LOBSTER' High-Frequency Data

0packages depend

1.5Kdownloads / year

95.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Stefan VoigtCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides tools to authenticate with 'LOBSTER' (Limit Order Book System - The Efficient Reconstruction, https://app.lobsterdata.com/), request, download, and process high-frequency limit order book data. Streamlines the end-to-end workflow from data request to analysis-ready datasets. For advanced high-frequency econometric analysis, see the 'highfrequency' package.

Changes in 1.0.0

Initial CRAN submission.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("lobsteR", 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("voigtstefan/lobsteR")

Development version from voigtstefan/lobsteR. 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-lobster

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-lobsteR

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-12
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-11
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

READMEYes · 359 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.0.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 5
Examples that run: 20%1 run in a plain check · 4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

1.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,203 · ~4/day · ~127/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

16330 days

52290 days

1.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on42 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

voigtstefan/lobster ↗Account: voigtstefan

0Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

63Commits

2Commit identities

63 commits · Last activity 2026-02-24

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 0%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 140
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 12

Forks over time

2026-07-07 · 02026-10-09 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/voigtstefan/lobster on 2026-10-25.

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 2026-02-24 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-02-24, before release 1.0.0 (2026-03-03)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

renv

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-02-12
Pull request: opened by its own account

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing lobsteR adds 36 packages (22 with compiled code, 11 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (9)

archive assertthat callr dplyr httr lubridate purrr rvest timeDate

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown testthat xml2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Stefan Voigt

Karol Kulma

Author

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.0Latest
record
2026-03-03 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-03
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Download size: 38 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("lobsteR")

Format

Voigt, S., & Kulma, K. (2026). lobsteR: Access and Process 'LOBSTER' High-Frequency Data (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.lobsteR

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 lobsteR version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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