R Observatory: Metrics for ritis version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ritis

1.0.0Package record

Integrated Taxonomic Information System Client

1packages dependsuggested by 2

78.5Kdownloads / year

56.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Scott ChamberlainCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: rOpenSci

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. 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-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). 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: 1.6 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 1.0.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 33% structured · does not mention 1.0.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 47includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%44 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 59%
Help pages citing references: 2%

How these are measured

Downloads

78.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,638 · ~215/day · ~6.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.7K30 days

13.7K90 days

78.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on670 r2u1 autocran2.9K conda_forge130 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/ritis ↗Organization: ropensci

16Stars

3Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

9Releases

199Commits

4Commit identities

api-wrapperitistaxonomyrstatsrr-packagetaxize

199 commits · Last activity 2025-02-04

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/ritis 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 conduct (inherited from ropensci)Contributing guideIssue templatesPR template

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ritis adds 27 packages (18 with compiled code, 16 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

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

1direct

5indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

taxize

Suggests, most downloaded first

camtrapR ecocomDP

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Scott Chamberlain

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2012)

rOpenSci

Funder · added in 0.8.0

https://ropensci.org/

Releases (12)

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getacceptednamesfromtsn, getanymatchcount, getcommentdetailfromtsn, getcommonnamesfromtsn, getcoremetadatafromtsn, getcoveragefromtsn, getcredibilityratingfromtsn, getcredibilityratings, getcurrencyfromtsn, getdatedatafromtsn, getdescription, getexpertsfromtsn, getfullhierarchyfromtsn, getfullrecordfromlsid, getfullrecordfromtsn, getgeographicdivisionsfromtsn, getgeographicvalues, getglobalspeciescompletenessfromtsn, gethierarchydownfromtsn, gethierarchyupfromtsn, getitistermsfromcommonname, getitistermsfromscientificname, getjurisdictionaloriginfromtsn, getjurisdictionoriginvalues, getjurisdictionvalues, getkingdomnamefromtsn, getkingdomnames, getlastchangedate, getlsidfromtsn, getothersourcesfromtsn and 20 more

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accepted_names, any_match_count, comment_detail, common_names, core_metadata, coverage, credibility_rating, credibility_ratings, currency, date_data, description, experts, full_record, geographic_divisions, geographic_values, global_species_completeness, hierarchy_down, hierarchy_full, hierarchy_up, itis_facet, itis_group, itis_highlight, itis_search, jurisdiction_origin_values, jurisdiction_values, jurisdictional_origin, kingdom_name, kingdom_names, last_change_date, lsid2tsn and 20 more
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Package metadata

First published: 2012-10-17
Total releases: 12 / 14 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from CC0 in 0.5.0
Bundled data: 3.5 KB / 1 file
Download size: 74 KB

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 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 ritis version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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