R Observatory: Metrics for mfdb version 7.4-0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mfdb

7.4-0Package record

MareFrame DB Querying Library

0packages depend

3.5Kdownloads / year

33.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jamie LentinCRAN page ↗

Creates and manages a PostgreSQL database suitable for storing fisheries data and aggregating ready for use within a Gadget https://gadget-framework.github.io/gadget2/ model. See https://mareframe.github.io/mfdb/ for more information.

Install

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

install.packages("mfdb", 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-mfdb

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-mfdb

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-mfdb

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: 3.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-30
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-04
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-24
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-17
OK13 OK2026-05-15
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-13
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 7.4-0

READMEYes · 617 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · does not mention 7.4-0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 23includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 89%17 run in a plain check · 1 never run · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 90%
Documented parameters: 91%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Also includes 18 demo scripts (run with demo())

Vignettes (5)

How these are measured

Downloads

3.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,910 · ~10/day · ~293/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27630 days

83590 days

3.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on79 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mfdb adds 6 packages (3 with compiled code, 6.4 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: duckdb 4.6 MB, rlang 766 KB, DBI 727 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (5)

logging DBI duckdb getPass rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

dplyr dbplyr knitr rmarkdown RPostgres RSQLite unittest

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 (2)

Jamie Lentin

Bjarki Thor Elvarsson

Author

Releases (7)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
7.4-0Latest
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2026-01-24 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
7.3-1
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2022-06-21 · diff ↗
7.3-0
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2022-06-07 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
7.2-0
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2021-11-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
mfdb_dplyr_table
7.1-1
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2021-10-09 · diff ↗
7.1-0
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2021-08-18 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
ewe_stanza_group, ewe_stanzas, ewe_model, ewe_diet, ewe_pedigree

added 8 exports
mfdb_import_bait_type_taxonomy, mfdb_import_net_type_taxonomy, mfdb_import_population_taxonomy, mfdb_import_port_taxonomy, mfdb_import_trip_taxonomy, mfdb_import_vessel_owner_taxonomy, mfdb_area_size_depth, mfdb_rpath_params
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
6.2-0
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2020-04-14
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-04-14
Total releases: 7 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Bundled data: 30 KB / 10 files
Download size: 1.3 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("mfdb")

Format

Lentin, J., & Elvarsson, B. T. (2026). mfdb: MareFrame DB Querying Library (Version 7.4-0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.mfdb

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mfdb version 7.4-0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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