R Observatory: Metrics for ritis version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ritis

1.0.0

Integrated Taxonomic Information System Client

3packages depend

100.4Kdownloads / year

56.5%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Scott ChamberlainFirst published 2012-10-1712 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An interface to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System ('ITIS') (https://www.itis.gov). Includes functions to work with the 'ITIS' REST API methods (https://www.itis.gov/ws_description.html), as well as the 'Solr' web service (https://www.itis.gov/solr_documentation.html).

Install

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

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

Development version from ropensci/ritis. 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-ritis

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

# 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-ritis

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-ritis

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 4.28

56.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 59%
References docs: 2%

Downloads

100.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,518 · ~275/day · ~8.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

5.1K30 days

17.6K90 days

100.4K1 year

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Also on215 r2u14 autocran3.1K conda_forge64 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci/ritis

16Stars

3Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

9Releases

199Commits

4Contributors

api-wrapperitistaxonomyrstatsrr-packagetaxize

199 commits · Last activity 2025-02-04

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/ritis on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

solrium crul jsonlite data.table tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat webmockr vcr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

5indirect

taxize camtrapR ecocomDP

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Scott Chamberlain

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Scott Chamberlain

Author, Maintainer

Funders (1)

rOpenSci

Funder · added in 0.8.0

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-10-17
Total releases: 12 / 14 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Bundled data: 3.5 KB / 1 file
Download size: 74 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ritis")

Format

Chamberlain, S., & rOpenSci. (2021). ritis: Integrated Taxonomic Information System Client (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ritis

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 ritis version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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