R Observatory: Metrics for rebird version 1.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rebird

1.3.0Package record

R Client for the eBird Database of Bird Observations

1packages depend

52.8Kdownloads / year

66.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Sebastian PardoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A programmatic client for the eBird database (https://ebird.org/home), including functions for searching for bird observations by geographic location (latitude, longitude), eBird hotspots, location identifiers, by notable sightings, by region, and by taxonomic name.

Changes in 1.3.0

Updated rebird's internal taxonomy after 2021 taxonomic update.
Fix tests.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

Development version from ropensci/rebird. 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-rebird

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-rebird

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-rebird

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 · 985 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 1.3.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 19 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 6%1 run in a plain check · 16 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 89%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to the rebird package HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

52.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,752 · ~145/day · ~4.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.9K30 days

12K90 days

52.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on301 r2u8 autocran1.7K conda_forge712 bioconda136 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/rebird ↗Organization: ropensci

95Stars

17Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

8Releases

599Commits

16Commit identities

ebirdrstatsbirdsebird-apirebird-webservicesspoccr-package

License file reads as MIT · 599 commits · Last activity 2025-05-01 · +1.1% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.3.9007, ahead of CRAN 1.3.0 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 87%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 12
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-02-25 · 902026-10-10 · 95

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

14 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 9 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/rebird on 2026-10-22.

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 (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 5 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

data-raw/Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rebird adds 23 packages (15 with compiled code, 8.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (7)

methodsutilsstatshttr jsonlite dplyr assertthat

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown testthat covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

6indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

spocc

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Sebastian Pardo

Author, Maintainer since 0.2 (2015) · added in 0.2

Author

Author

Author

Contributor · added in 1.1.0

David Bradnum

Contributor · added in 1.2.0

Marianna Foos

Contributor · added in 1.2.0

Previously maintained by Rafael Maia (0.1 to 0.1.1).

Releases (10)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
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
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.3.0Latest
record
2021-09-20 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.2.0
record
2021-01-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
ebirdchecklistfeed, ebirdhotspotlist, ebirdregionspecies, ebirdsubregionlist
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.1.0
record
2019-10-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
ebirdhistorical
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.0.0
record
2018-09-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
ebirdregioninfo, species_code
0.5.0
record
2018-07-09 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.4.0
record
2017-04-26 · diff ↗
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

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R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.3.0
record
2016-03-23 · diff ↗
0.2
record
2015-07-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
ebirdfreq, ebirdregioncheck
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
R
R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
0.1.1
record
2014-03-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
ebirdtaxonomy, getlatlng
R
R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
0.1
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2012-10-14
R
R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2012-10-14
Total releases: 10 / 14 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from BSD in 0.1.1
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 477 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rebird")

Format

Pardo, S., Babineau, G., Bradnum, D., Chamberlain, S., Foos, M., Maia, R., & Teucher, A. (2021). rebird: R Client for the eBird Database of Bird Observations (Version 1.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rebird

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

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 rebird version 1.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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