R Observatory: Metrics for rdryad version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rdryad

1.0.0Package record

Access for Dryad Web Services

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

66.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Scott ChamberlainCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Interface to the Dryad "Solr" API, their "OAI-PMH" service, and fetch datasets. Dryad (https://datadryad.org/) is a curated host of data underlying scientific publications.

Changes in 1.0.0

BREAKING CHANGES

Package redone to work with new Dryad API v2. Most functions are defunct, and there's three sets of new functions following the three major sets of API routes for datasets, versions, and files. See ?rdryad for more (#28) (#29)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

Development version from ropensci/rdryad. 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-rdryad

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-rdryad

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-rdryad

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: 1.3 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 · 92 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 1.0.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 18 (10 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%7 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,920 · ~8/day · ~252/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28130 days

83790 days

3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on73 r2u3 autocran127 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/rdryad ↗Organization: ropensci

26Stars

7Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

174Commits

9Commit identities

dryad-apidryaddatadoioai-pmhrrstatsr-package

174 commits · Last activity 2026-05-22 · Default branch at 1.0.1.098, ahead of CRAN 1.0.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 45
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-01-31 · 262026-07-07 · 26

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 8 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/rdryad 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 (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 4 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rdryad adds 23 packages (16 with compiled code, 9.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (7)

crul curl tibble hoardr zip jsonlite mime

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat 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 (3)

Scott Chamberlain

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2012)

Carl Boettiger

Author

Karthik Ram

Author

Releases (8)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
2.15.3Latest
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2013-01-29 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
identify, listidentifiers, listmetadataformats

added 4 exports
dr_identify, dr_listidentifiers, dr_listmetadataformats, dr_listsets
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

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2.14.2
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2012-02-23 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2020-06-25 · diff ↗ ·
removed 17 exports
d_solr_facet, d_solr_group, d_solr_highlight, d_solr_mlt, d_solr_search, d_solr_stats, doi2handle, dr_get_records, dr_identify, dr_list_identifiers, dr_list_metadata_formats, dr_list_records, dr_list_sets, dryad_fetch, dryad_metadata, dryad_package_dois, handle2doi

added 8 exports
dryad_dataset, dryad_dataset_versions, dryad_datasets, dryad_download, dryad_files_download, dryad_versions, dryad_versions_download, dryad_versions_files
0.4.0
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2018-06-18 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
download_url

added 2 exports
dryad_metadata, dryad_package_dois
0.3.0
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2017-11-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
doi2handle, dryad_files, handle2doi
0.2.0
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2015-12-23 · diff ↗ ·
removed 9 exports
download_dryadmetadata, dr_listidentifiers, dr_listmetadataformats, dr_listsets, dryad_getfile, getalldryad_metadata, search_dryad, totimp, totimp_dryad

added 12 exports
d_solr_facet, d_solr_group, d_solr_highlight, d_solr_mlt, d_solr_search, d_solr_stats, dr_get_records, dr_list_identifiers, dr_list_metadata_formats, dr_list_records, dr_list_sets, dryad_fetch
0.1.1
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2013-01-30 · diff ↗
0.1
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2012-02-23
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31

Package metadata

First published: 2012-02-23
Total releases: 8 / 14 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from CC0 in 0.2.0
Download size: 59 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rdryad")

Format

Chamberlain, S., Boettiger, C., & Ram, K. (2020). rdryad: Access for Dryad Web Services (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rdryad

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rdryad version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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