rib

0.30.4

An Implementation of 'Interactive Brokers' API

0packages depend

15.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Luca BilliFirst published 2022-11-247 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Allows interaction with 'Interactive Brokers' 'Trader Workstation' https://interactivebrokers.github.io/tws-api/. Handles the connection over the network and the exchange of messages. Data is encoded and decoded between user and wire formats. Data structures and functionality closely mirror the official implementations.

Install

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

install.packages("rib", 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("lbilli/rib")

Development version from lbilli/rib. 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-rib

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# 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-rib

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

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Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
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Documentation

READMEYes · 912 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 75%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 40%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

15.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,936 · ~43/day · ~1.3K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ lbilli/rib

46Stars

9Forks

8Open issues

0Open PRs

28Releases

85Commits

2Contributors

rinteractive-brokersapi-clientib-api

License GPL-3.0 · 85 commits · Last activity 2026-07-15 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-15 · 432026-07-07 · 46

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Checks run against github.com/lbilli/rib on 2026-07-19.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4

Imports (2)

R6 RProtoBuf

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Luca Billi

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Luca Billi

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

7 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.30.4Latest
2026-02-07 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.25.3
2025-02-10 · diff ↗
0.23.1
2024-10-17 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.20.0
2024-04-19 · diff ↗
0.19.3
2023-10-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.19.0
2023-01-19 · diff ↗
0.18.2
2022-11-24
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-11-24
Total releases: 7 / 4 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4
Download size: 34 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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