R Observatory: Metrics for newsanchor version 0.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

newsanchor

0.1.1Package record

Client for the News API

0packages depend

2.8Kdownloads / year

62.1%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Buhl YannikCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Interface to gather news from the 'News API', based on a multilevel query https://newsapi.org/. A personal API key is required.

Changes in 0.1.1

fixed issue with the NYT vignette (now suggests package "textdata")
moved vignette to 'example' folder in root directory

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("newsanchor", 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("correlaid/newsanchor")

Development version from correlaid/newsanchor. 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-newsanchor

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-newsanchor

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-newsanchor

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespaces in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘devtools’ ‘xml2’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

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

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1.1Citation fileNo

Help pages: 22
Examples that run: 0%7 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Usage of newsanchor HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,232 · ~8/day · ~235/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30030 days

78690 days

2.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on69 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

correlaid/newsanchor ↗Organization: CorrelAid

35Stars

5Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

225Commits

17Commit identities

225 commits · Last activity 2020-09-01

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 27
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/correlaid/newsanchor on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows

Docs source (2)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2021-12-21

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing newsanchor adds 103 packages (51 with compiled code, 60 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, pak 3.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (7)

devtools httr jsonlite tidyr xml2 lubridate askpass

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

dplyr knitr magrittr rmarkdown robotstxt rvest stringr testthat mockery tidytext textdata

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 (4)

Buhl Yannik

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2019)

Preu Frie

Author, pro

Dix Jan

Author, pro

Schulze Lars

Author

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-03-05
Total releases: 2 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Bundled data: 42 KB / 5 files
Download size: 72 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("newsanchor")

Format

Yannik, B., Frie, P., Jan, D., & Lars, S. (2019). newsanchor: Client for the News API (Version 0.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.newsanchor

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 newsanchor version 0.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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