R Observatory: Metrics for read.abares version 3.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

read.abares

3.0.0Package record

Read Australian Agricultural Data from Government Agencies

0packages depend

2.9Kdownloads / year

93.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Adam H. SparksCRAN page ↗Codeberg ↗Website ↗Issues ↗rOpenSci review: issue 667 ↗

Downloads and imports agricultural data from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) https://www.abs.gov.au. Supports multiple data formats including spreadsheets, comma‑separated value (CSV) files, and geospatial data such as shapefiles and GeoTIFFs. Covers topics such as broadacre crops, livestock, soils, commodities and related agricultural information. The package standardises field names and data formats to improve interoperability and simplify analysis. It also streamlines the import of geospatial data and corrects common issues found in these data sources upon loading.

Changes in 3.0.0

Breaking Changes

read_abares_trade() returns all character strings as factors that are sorted by "Trade_flow", "Fiscal_year", "Month", "Trade_code", "State", "Australian_port", "Overseas_location".
Verbosity option changed from "minimal" to "default", aligns with {rlang} values.
Verbosity is now set to "default" by default, not "verbose".

Minor Changes

Users can now request trade code descriptions to be included in read_abares_trade().

Bug fixes

Download caching now works as intended, files are not re-downloaded during the current session.
read_abares_trade() no longer drops the leading "0" in the "Trade_codes" column.
Fixed a misconfigured footnote in the "Setting Global Options for "Working with Spatial Data in read.abares" vignette.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("read.abares", 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-read.abares

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-read.abares

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 6.3 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-12

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WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-11
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 3.0.0

READMEYes · 809 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 3.0.0Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 31 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%27 run in a plain check (26 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 96%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 96%
Help pages citing references: 77%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,474 · ~8/day · ~243/mo

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27830 days

98590 days

2.9K1 year

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Repository

codeberg.org/ropensci/read.abares ↗

2Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

908Commits

3Commit identities

agricultureagriculture-dataagriculture-datasetagriculture-trade-dataaustraliadata-retrievalland-use-classificationland-use-data

908 commits · Last activity 2026-07-25

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

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

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Repository codeberg.org/ropensci/read.abares is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

27 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing read.abares adds 59 packages (35 with compiled code, 54 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (18)

brio cli data.table fs htm2txt httr2 lubridate purrr readxl rlang sf stars stringr terra tidyncutilswhoami withr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

bit64 knitr openxlsx pander rmarkdown roxyglobals skimr spelling testthat zip

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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People & History

People (5)

Adam H. Sparks

Maintainer since 2.0.0 (2026), Author

Jacob Wujciak-Jens

Contributor

Assisted with troubleshooting formatting in documentation to display '<' and '>' properly

Curtin University

Copyright holder

http://www.curtin.edu.au/

María Paula Caldas

Reviewer

rOpenSci Review https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/667

Nicholas Potter

Reviewer

rOpenSci Review https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/667

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Grains Research and Development Corporation

no longer listed · 2.0.0

Releases (2)

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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-22
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 149 KB / 1 file
Download size: 519 KB

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Agricultural Science

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citation("read.abares")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for read.abares version 3.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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