R Observatory: Metrics for openSkies version 1.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

openSkies

1.3.1

Retrieval, Analysis and Visualization of Air Traffic Data

0packages depend

3.6Kdownloads / year

16.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Rafael AyalaFirst published 2020-11-0316 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides functionalities and data structures to retrieve, analyze and visualize aviation data. It includes a client interface to the 'OpenSky' API https://opensky-network.org. It allows retrieval of flight information, as well as aircraft state vectors.

Install

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

install.packages("openSkies", 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("Rafael-Ayala/openSkies")

Development version from Rafael-Ayala/openSkies. 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-openskies

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

# 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-openSkies

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.6 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.01

16.9%

Coverage · measured lines

0%

Documentation · exports

12

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
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 37 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 48%

Downloads

3.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,013 · ~10/day · ~300/mo

Releases R versions

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33330 days

88790 days

3.6K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ rafael-ayala/openskies

14Stars

7Forks

1Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

137Commits

5Contributors

137 commits · Last activity 2026-01-20 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-07 · 122026-07-07 · 14

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rafael-ayala/openskies on 2026-08-16.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

grid

Imports (11)

httr ssh xml2 ggmap ggplot2 magickutilsstatsR6 dbscancluster

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr BiocStyle RUnit rmarkdown markdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Rafael Ayala

Author, Maintainer

Authors (6)

Rafael Ayala

Author, Maintainer

Daniel Ayala

Author

Pablo Hernandez

Author · added in 1.3.0

David Ruiz

Author · added in 1.0.0

Lara Selles Vidal

Author · added in 1.2.2

Aleix Sellés

Author

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Lara Sellés Vidal

no longer listed · 0.99.3 to 1.2.1

Package Timeline

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

1.3.1Latest
2026-07-24 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.3.0
2026-01-20 · diff ↗
1.2.2
2025-08-21 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.2.1
2024-04-03 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.1.6
2021-12-19 · diff ↗
1.1.5
2021-10-07 · diff ↗
1.1.4
2021-08-23 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-08-23
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-08-08
policy violations Hangs on Internet access until aborted or timed out by 'check', so delaying check runs
1.1.3
2021-08-06 · diff ↗
1.1.2
2021-07-30 · diff ↗

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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.1.1
2021-04-17 · diff ↗
1.1.0
2021-03-07 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2021-01-26 · diff ↗
0.99.8
2020-12-04 · diff ↗
0.99.7
2020-12-01 · diff ↗
0.99.4
2020-11-11 · diff ↗
0.99.3
2020-11-03
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-11-03
Total releases: 16 / 6 yrs
License: CC BY-NC 4.0
Download size: 267 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("openSkies")

Format

Ayala, R., Ayala, D., Hernandez, P., Ruiz, D., Selles Vidal, L., & Sellés, A. (2026). openSkies: Retrieval, Analysis and Visualization of Air Traffic Data (Version 1.3.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.openSkies

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for openSkies version 1.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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