R Observatory: Metrics for primate version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

primate

0.2.0Package record

Tools and Methods for Primatological Data Science

0packages depend

2.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by David SchruthCRAN page ↗

Data from All the World's Primates relational SQL database and other tabular datasets are made available via drivers and connection functions. Additionally we provide several functions and examples to facilitate the merging and aggregation of these tabular inputs.

Install

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

install.packages("primate", 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-primate

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-primate

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-primate

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: ‘David Schruth <data@anthropoidea.org>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "David",
                      family = "Schruth",
                      role = "cre",
                      email = "data@anthropoidea.org"),
               person(given = "Marc",
                      family = "Myers",
                      role = "ctb"),
               person(given = "Noel",
                      family = "Rowe",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

Additional issues

donttest

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
WARNING11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 0% structuredCitation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 11
Examples that run: 45%5 run in a plain check · 6 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Tutorial: Reading, Cleaning, and Aggregating PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #22,745 · ~6/day · ~195/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

21130 days

58290 days

2.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on79 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing primate adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 2.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: caroline 2.0 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 1.8.0caroline

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

RJDBC

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 (from the free-text Author field) (3)

David Schruth

Author

Noel Rowe

Author

Marc Myers

Contributor

Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2022)

Releases (1)

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
0.2.0Latest
record
2022-05-09 · current release
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-05-09
Total releases: 1 / 4 yrs
License: Apache License
Minimum R: ≥ 1.8.0
Download size: 944 KB

Cite

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citation("primate")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for primate version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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