R Observatory: Metrics for rmacrostrat version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rmacrostrat

1.0.0Package record

Fetch Geologic Data from the 'Macrostrat' Platform

0packages dependsuggested by 1

3.6Kdownloads / year

78.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Lewis A. JonesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Work with the 'Macrostrat' (https://macrostrat.org/) Web Service (v.2, https://macrostrat.org/api/v2) to fetch geological data relevant to the spatial and temporal distribution of sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks as well as data extracted from them.

Changes in 1.0.0

Accepted peer-reviewed version
Updated citation file
Minor changes to stratigraphic column vignette

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("rmacrostrat", 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("UW-Macrostrat/macrostrat")

Development version from UW-Macrostrat/macrostrat. 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-rmacrostrat

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-rmacrostrat

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-rmacrostrat

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

Additional issues

donttest

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

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

Show 3 earlier changesHide 3 earlier changes

NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-05-05
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

READMEYes · 354 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Help pages: 37 (6 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%31 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

3.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,232 · ~10/day · ~303/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28830 days

83190 days

3.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on93 r2u6 autocran167 conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

uw-macrostrat/macrostrat ↗Organization: UW-Macrostrat

10Stars

3Forks

159Open issues

6Open PRs

0Releases

5,852Commits

20Commit identities

License file reads as Apache-2.0 · 5,852 commits · Last activity 2026-10-23 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 98%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 21
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-12 · 62026-09-16 · 10

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/uw-macrostrat/macrostrat on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Automation and maintenance (1)

pre-commit

Git structural (1)

Submodules

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-08-16
Seen in the repository: CLAUDE.md
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: 40 by its own account · at least 58 crediting it in the message
GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-08-27
Pull request: opened by its own account
Commits: 23 by its own account

Shared conventions any agent may read, so they name no particular tool.

Seen in the repository: AGENTS.md

From outside contributors

Claude Code
Pull requests: 10 from outside contributors, first on 2026-09-03

Models named in its commits

Claude Fable 5.128 commits · Oct 2026
Claude Opus 517 commits · Aug to Sep 2026
Claude Opus 5.59 commits · Sep to Oct 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rmacrostrat adds 22 packages (18 with compiled code, 21 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (5)

curl geojsonsf httr jsonlite sf

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (15)

covr cowplot deeptime devtools ggplot2 ggrepel ggspatial knitr rmarkdown rnaturalearth rnaturalearthhires rphylopic palaeoverse testthat units

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

deeptime

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

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Releases (3)

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Package metadata

First published: 2024-07-31
Total releases: 3 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Additional repositories: ropensci.r-universe.dev
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Download size: 3.3 MB

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Paleontology

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("rmacrostrat")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1130/ges02815.1.

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 rmacrostrat version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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