R Observatory: Metrics for patentsview version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

patentsview

1.0.0Package record

An R Client to the 'PatentsView' API

0packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

78.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Christopher BakerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides functions to simplify the 'PatentsView' API (https://search.patentsview.org/docs/docs/Search%20API/SearchAPIReference/#api-query-language) query language, send GET and POST requests to the API's twenty seven endpoints, and parse the data that comes back.

Install

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

install.packages("patentsview", 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("ropensci/patentsview")

Development version from ropensci/patentsview. 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-patentsview

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-patentsview

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-patentsview

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: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

READMEYes · 150 wordsVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWS· In the repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 10 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 57%4 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 88%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 88%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,200 · ~9/day · ~265/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30030 days

77690 days

3.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on89 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/patentsview ↗Organization: ropensci

39Stars

12Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

556Commits

9Commit identities

patentsusptopatentsview-apirrstatspatentsviewr-packagepeer-reviewed

556 commits · Last activity 2026-02-27 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 70%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 3

Stars over time

2025-03-21 · 342026-07-17 · 39

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/patentsview on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct (inherited from ropensci)

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2019-11-25

pkgdown site last built 2025-03-18, before release 1.0.0 (2026-02-26)

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

data-raw/Makefile

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing patentsview adds 14 packages (10 with compiled code, 6.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (5)

httr2 lifecycle jsonliteutilsstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

dplyr knitr rmarkdown testthat tidyr vcr (>= 1.6.0)

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)

Christopher Baker

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2017)

Russ Allen

Author · added in 1.0.0

Releases (6)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.0Latest
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2026-02-26 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
cast_pv_data

added 1 export
retrieve_linked_data
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
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.3.0
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2021-09-25 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.2.2
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2019-01-28 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.1
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2018-03-14 · diff ↗
0.2.0
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2018-02-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
cast_pv_data
0.1.0
record
2017-07-12
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-07-12
Total releases: 6 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 2.8 KB / 1 file
Download size: 6.9 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("patentsview")

Format

Baker, C., & Allen, R. (2026). patentsview: An R Client to the 'PatentsView' API (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.patentsview

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 patentsview version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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