R Observatory: Metrics for retractcheck version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2022-08-08. Its history is shown below.

Reason: issues were not corrected in time

Details below reflect version 1.0.0, its last release before removal.

retractcheck

1.0.0Package record

Retraction Scanner

0packages depend

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Chris HartgerinkCRAN page ↗

Using 'Digital Object Identifiers', check for retracted (or otherwise updated) articles using 'Open Retractions' http://openretractions.com.

Changes in 1.0.0

Version 1.0.0 with basic functionality to get results from OpenRetractions.com
Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (source archive)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/retractcheck/retractcheck_1.0.0.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "retractcheck_1.0.0.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (1.0.0) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

READMEYes · 373 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.0.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 12includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 20%2 run in a plain check · 8 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 91%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

retractcheck Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

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Also on35 r2u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

plyr textreadr httr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

–indirect (not tracked)

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Chris Hartgerink

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2019)

Frederik Aust

Author

Releases (1)

R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-08-08
issues were not corrected in time
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.0.0
record
2019-07-03
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-07-03
Total releases: 1 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("retractcheck")

Format

Hartgerink, C., & Aust, F. (n.d.). retractcheck: Retraction Scanner (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved October 25, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=retractcheck

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 retractcheck version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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