R Observatory: Metrics for nzffdr version 2.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

nzffdr

2.1.0Package record

Import, Clean and Update Data from the New Zealand Freshwater Fish Database

0packages depend

2.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Finnbar LeeCRAN page ↗Website ↗

Access the New Zealand Freshwater Fish Database from R and a few functions to clean the data once in R.

Changes in 2.1.0

Fixes associated with NZFFD search issue and some small tidying.

At the moment users should download the entire NZFFD, and then filter records from there. See note below.

NZFFD search issue

Following reports of issues associated with using search fields in the NZFFD (see comments on page 4 of the help manual available here: https://niwa.co.nz/information-services/nz-freshwater-fish-database/help), nzffdr_import() now downloads the entire NZFFD by default (previously even when no search terms were entered not all results were being downloaded due to changes to the NZFFD portal).
use any of the following to download the entire NZFFD (do not set additional arguments), and then filter in R as needed: nzffdr_import(download_format = "all"), nzffdr_import(download_format = "essential") or nzffdr_razzle_dazzle().

updated functions

nzddr_import() & nzffdr_razzle_dazzle() now generate a warning regarding the NZFFD issue.
nzffdr_add_dates() now much faster
nzffdr_widen_habitat() no longer produces the "In fun_df(xx2, cl) : NAs introduced by coercion" warning by default.

Depreciated functions

Show all changes in 2.1.0Hide the rest of the changes in 2.1.0

depreciated functions from nzffdr 2.0.0 have been removed (nzffdr_add() & nzffdr_fill())

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("nzffdr", 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-nzffdr

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-nzffdr

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-nzffdr

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

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Finnbar Lee <lee.finnbar@gmail.com>’

Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style personList() or
as.personList().  Please use c() on person objects instead.
Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry().  Please
use bibentry() instead.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-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 2.1.0

READMEYes · 137 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.1.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 10
Examples that run: 63%5 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,972 · ~7/day · ~202/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

24230 days

66190 days

2.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on60 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

flee598/nzffdr ↗Account: flee598

2Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

108Commits

3Commit identities

108 commits · Last activity 2025-01-06

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 432
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2020-10-01 · 12026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/flee598/nzffdr on 2026-10-18.

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 2025-01-06 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing nzffdr adds 28 packages (19 with compiled code, 21 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (7)

curl httr rlang stringi tidyrutilsxml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

devtools knitr rmarkdown roxygen2

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)

Finnbar Lee

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2021)

Nick Young

Author

Releases (3)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.1.0Latest
record
2022-11-08 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
nzffd_add, nzffd_fill
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.0.0
record
2022-01-17 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
nzffd_clean, nzffd_import

added 8 exports
nzffdr_add_dates, nzffdr_clean, nzffdr_get_table, nzffdr_import, nzffdr_ind_lengths, nzffdr_razzle_dazzle, nzffdr_taxon_threat, nzffdr_widen_habitat
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.0
record
2021-03-09
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-03-09
Total releases: 3 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 349 KB / 2 files
Download size: 639 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("nzffdr")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1101/2021.06.22.449519.

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 nzffdr version 2.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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