R Observatory: Metrics for ridigbio version 0.4.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ridigbio

0.4.1Package record

Interface to the iDigBio Data API

2packages dependsuggested by 1

97.2Kdownloads / year

92.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jesse BennettCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

An interface to iDigBio's search API that allows downloading specimen records. Searches are returned as a data.frame. Other functions such as the metadata end points return lists of information. iDigBio is a US project focused on digitizing and serving museum specimen collections on the web. See https://www.idigbio.org for information on iDigBio.

Changes in 0.4.1

Fixes

Styling Fixes and Meta Fields fixes and tests

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ridigbio", 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("iDigBio/ridigbio")

Development version from iDigBio/ridigbio. 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-ridigbio

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-ridigbio

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-ridigbio

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: 8.5 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-02
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-10-01
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.1

READMEYes · 220 wordsVignettesYes · 9 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 0.4.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 24 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 25%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 92%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (9)

ridigbio HTML
Fields in ridigbio
Identification of Data Flags HTML
Identification of Modified Data HTML
Identification of Suspicious Coordinates HTML
Introduction to ridigbio HTML
Media API Demo HTML
Record API Demo
Tissue Samples Locator Demo

How these are measured

Downloads

97.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,721 · ~266/day · ~8.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4.3K30 days

12.3K90 days

97.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on321 r2u6 autocran2.1K conda_forge370 bioconda40 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

idigbio/ridigbio ↗Organization: iDigBio

17Stars

10Forks

8Open issues

1Open PRs

14Releases

226Commits

11Commit identities

226 commits · Last activity 2025-07-25

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 69%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 5
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 12

Stars over time

2025-06-26 · 172026-07-07 · 17

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/idigbio/ridigbio on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-07-25 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-07-25

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ridigbio adds 121 packages (64 with compiled code, 95 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.1

Imports (8)

statsplyr httr jsonlite leaflet kableExtra tidyverse cowplot

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

testthat markdown knitrutilsrmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

6indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

spocc RuHere

Suggests, most downloaded first

EcoCleanR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Jesse Bennett

Maintainer since 0.3.7 (2023) · added in 0.3.7

Maintainer

Matthew Collins

Author

Original Author

Michelle L. Gaynor

Contributor, Author · added in 0.3.8

Francois Michonneau

Author, Copyright holder

Original Author

Scott Chamberlain

Contributor

Kevin Love

Contributor · added in 0.3.4

Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna

Contributor · added in 0.3.4

Previously maintained by Maureen Kelly (0.3.6) and Matthew Collins (0.2.2 to 0.3.5).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Maureen Kelly

no longer listed · 0.3.6

Releases (13)

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-06-11
Total releases: 13 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.1
Download size: 1.8 MB

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Format

Jesse Bennett, Chamberlain, S., Collins, M., Gaynor, M. L., Love, K., Michonneau, F., & Morzaria-Luna, H. N. (2024). ridigbio: Interface to the iDigBio Data API (Version 0.4.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ridigbio

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ridigbio version 0.4.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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