R Observatory: Metrics for rebib version 0.5.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rebib

0.5.0Package record

Convert and Aggregate Bibliographies

1packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

37.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Abhishek UlayilCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Authors working with 'LaTeX' articles use the built-in bibliography options and 'BibTeX' files. While this might work with 'LaTeX', it does not function well with Web articles. As a way out, 'rebib' offers tools to convert and combine bibliographies from both sources.

Changes in 0.5.0

bug fixes :

1. Fixed unresolved dependency issues in parser.

2. Fixed issue #21 where it could not read paths with spaces.

3. Fixed issue #23 to detect bibliography files outside of the article folder and refer it from the thebibliography{...} command.

4. Some patches to adapt the parser to parse slightly different format/style of bibliography as mentioned in issue #24.

5. Included test coverage using codecov and covr, fixing issue #13.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("rebib", 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("Abhi-1U/rebib")

Development version from Abhi-1U/rebib. 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-rebib

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-rebib

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-rebib

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-devel-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 0.5.0

READMENoVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.5.0Citation fileNo

Help pages: 10
Examples that run: 100%10 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,604 · ~7/day · ~208/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

26330 days

67390 days

2.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on70 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

abhi-1u/rebib ↗Account: Abhi-1U

3Stars

2Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

9Releases

95Commits

3Commit identities

bibliographybibtexconvertrr-package

95 commits · Last activity 2024-10-15 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 7
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-05-30 · 22026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/abhi-1u/rebib on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-10-15 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rebib adds 11 packages (7 with compiled code, 15 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, logger 1.1 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (6)

toolsstringr logger xfun cli whisker

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

texor

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor · added in 0.5.0

Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

Contributor

Heather Turner

Contributor

Releases (3)

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Package metadata

First published: 2023-05-26
Total releases: 3 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 56 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rebib")

Format

Ulayil, A., Cook, D., Dervieux, C., Huang, Y., O'Hara-Wild, M., & Turner, H. (2024). rebib: Convert and Aggregate Bibliographies (Version 0.5.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rebib

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rebib version 0.5.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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