R Observatory: Metrics for rcites version 1.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rcites

1.3.0Package record

R Interface to the Species+ Database

0packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

89.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kevin CazellesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A programmatic interface to the Species+ https://speciesplus.net/ database via the Species+/CITES Checklist API https://api.speciesplus.net/.

Install

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

install.packages("rcites", 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/rcites")

Development version from ropensci/rcites. 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-rcites

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-rcites

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-rcites

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: 1.9 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 1.3.0

READMEYes · 397 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · staticNEWS· In the repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 8 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%6 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 83%
Help pages citing references: 75%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,895 · ~9/day · ~269/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28230 days

80290 days

3.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on63 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/rcites ↗Organization: ropensci

14Stars

6Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

503Commits

11Commit identities

citesapi-clienttradeendangered-speciesr-packagedatabaserrstats

503 commits · Last activity 2026-10-15 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.4.0, ahead of CRAN 1.3.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-01-31 · 142026-07-07 · 14

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/rcites 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

Governance and community (4)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templatesPR template

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2019-10-09

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rcites adds 9 packages (7 with compiled code, 3.6 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (4)

cli curl httr jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

knitr testthat tibble rmarkdown rworldmap vcr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (8)

Kevin Cazelles

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2018)

Author

Author

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Reviewer · added in 1.0.0

Margaret Siple

Reviewer · added in 1.0.0

Releases (6)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.3.0Latest
record
2023-02-12 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.2.0
record
2021-11-04 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.1.0
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2020-07-01 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.0.1
record
2019-05-24 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.0.0
record
2018-11-18 · diff ↗ ·
removed 7 exports
sppplus_login, sppplus_simplify, sppplus_taxonconcept, taxon_cites_legislation, taxon_distribution, taxon_eu_legislation, taxon_references

added 7 exports
forget_token, set_token, spp_cites_legislation, spp_distributions, spp_eu_legislation, spp_references, spp_taxonconcept
0.1.0
record
2018-08-11
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-08-11
Total releases: 6 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Download size: 627 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rcites")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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 rcites version 1.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-20, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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