R Observatory: Metrics for rdracor version 1.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rdracor

1.1.0Package record

Access to the 'DraCor' API

0packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

86.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ivan PozdniakovCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provide an interface for 'Drama Corpora Project' ('DraCor') API: https://dracor.org/documentation/api.

Changes in 1.1.0

all functions that request 'DraCor' API now fail gracefully: if the API is

not available (no internet connection, the server is down or does not respond,

error status, data that cannot be parsed), they show an informative message

and return NULL instead of throwing an error

added time limits for requests to 'DraCor' API: options

rdracor.connect_timeout (30 s) and rdracor.timeout (600 s), see

?dracor_api

added dracor_api_available() to check whether 'DraCor' API is available
fixed dracor_api_info() failing if 'DraCor' API is not available
get_dracor() requests the list of corpora once instead of twice
examples are run only if 'DraCor' API is available
tests that need 'DraCor' API are not run on CRAN; added tests for the

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behaviour of the functions without 'DraCor' API

fixed tei_to_df() and get_text_df() losing the speaker (who) of verse

lines wrapped in <lg>; lines with several speakers keep all their ids;

tei_to_df() no longer modifies the document passed to it

fixed plot() for cooccur_igraph and relations_igraph objects ignoring

igraph arguments passed by the user (e.g. vertex.color, vertex.size);

gender_colors can be given in any order; edge_size_scale = NULL works

fixed plot() for relations_igraph objects not drawing vertices: colours

were taken from the character attribute gender, which 'DraCor' API v1.1.0

renamed to sex (dracor-org/dracor-api#319)

get_play_metadata(full_metadata = TRUE) uses only the metadata columns

returned by the API and no longer returns normalizedGenre twice

set_dracor_api_url() validates its argument and removes a trailing slash
dracor_sparql() uses the host of the current 'DraCor' API URL
argument validation errors (e.g. a missing play name) are no longer reported

as connection problems

TLS certificates are verified for all requests
fixed citation("rdracor"): full list of authors of the 'DraCor' paper and

DOI; added a citation for the package

fixed typos in documentation; documented the format of gender_colors
fixed plot() for cooccur_igraph objects failing or warning when a metric

is 0 for every character (e.g. betweenness in a two-character play) or the play

has no co-occurrences; unknown relation types are drawn in grey

several authors of a play are separated with "; " in the attributes of

network objects

get_dracor() downloads each corpus once even if its name is repeated and

no longer returns the duplicated column yearNormalizedMeta

the updated column of get_dracor_meta() takes the UTC offset of 'DraCor'

API timestamps into account

invalid play or corpus arguments give a clear error message
requests to 'DraCor' API identify the package with a User-Agent header

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("rdracor", 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("dracor-org/rdracor")

Development version from dracor-org/rdracor. 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-rdracor

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-rdracor

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-rdracor

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: 2.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-02
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-10-01
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-21

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-20
OK13 OK2026-06-09
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-02
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.0

READMEYes · 418 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 20
Examples that run: 65%13 run in a plain check (12 of them under a condition) · 7 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 95%
Help pages citing references: 25% with a bibliography file

How these are measured

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,826 · ~9/day · ~263/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28030 days

72290 days

3.2K1 year

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Also on77 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

dracor-org/rdracor ↗Organization: dracor-org

35Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

220Commits

4Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 220 commits · Last activity 2026-10-21 · +2.9% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 23
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-02 · 332026-07-07 · 34

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/dracor-org/rdracor on 2026-10-22.

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rdracor adds 32 packages (22 with compiled code, 33 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, igraph 4.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (11)

jsonliteutilsdata.table xml2 (>= 1.2.2)igraph httr tibble (>= 3.1.8)purrr stringr tidyr Rdpack

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Ivan Pozdniakov

Author, Maintainer since 0.7.2 (2023)

Releases (7)

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1.1.0Latest
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2026-10-22 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
dracor_api_available
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listed once in CRAN's queue
Seen in one reading of CRAN's incoming queue, at 2026-10-21 22:56 UTC, so it stayed less than the time between readings.
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.6
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2025-09-29 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-08-27
1.0.5
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2025-08-27 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-07-31
issues were not corrected in time
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.4
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2024-09-26 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-04-04
1.0.3
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2024-04-04 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
get_play_cast

added 1 export
get_play_characters
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-02-08
repeated policy violation On Internet access
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-10-22
0.7.6
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2023-10-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
get_dracor_api_url, set_dracor_api_url
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-05-14
policy violation On Internet access
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

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0.7.2
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2023-01-23
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Across CRAN, the median accepted release of the past year spent 23 hours in the queue, 90% under 11 days.How queue time is measured

Package metadata

First published: 2023-01-23
Total releases: 7 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 259 KB

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rdracor version 1.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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