R Observatory: Metrics for rnassqs version 0.6.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rnassqs

0.6.3Package record

Access Data from the NASS 'Quick Stats' API

0packages depend

5.7Kdownloads / year

85.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Nicholas PotterCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Interface to access data via the United States Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistical Service (NASS) 'Quick Stats' web API https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/api/. Convenience functions facilitate building queries based on available parameters and valid parameter values. This product uses the NASS API but is not endorsed or certified by NASS.

Changes in 0.6.3

Update to work with R 4.4.0

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

Development version from ropensci/rnassqs. 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-rnassqs

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-rnassqs

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-rnassqs

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: 1.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-12
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-11
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.6.3

READMEYes · 986 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.6.3Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 13 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 20%2 run in a plain check · 8 never run
Exported functions with examples: 91%
Documented parameters: 86%
Return-value docs: 82%
Help pages citing references: 8%

Vignettes (1)

Using rnassqs HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

5.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,171 · ~16/day · ~478/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

49730 days

1.4K90 days

5.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on101 r2u5 autocran112 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/rnassqs ↗Organization: ropensci

48Stars

18Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

189Commits

10Commit identities

189 commits · Last activity 2025-09-22 · +2.1% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.6.4, ahead of CRAN 0.6.3 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 65
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 6

Stars over time

2025-04-09 · 472026-10-10 · 48

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/rnassqs on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

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

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2019-11-27

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (3)

renvdata-raw/Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (3)

codemeta.jsonJOSS paperZenodo

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rnassqs adds 8 packages (6 with compiled code, 3.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (4)

httr jsonlitestatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

here httptest knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (8)

Nicholas Potter

Author, Maintainer since 0.4.0 (2019)

Jonathan Adams

Contributor · added in 0.5.0

Branden Collingsworth

Contributor · added in 0.6.3

Robert Dinterman

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Julia Piaskowski

Contributor

Neal Richardson

Contributor, Reviewer · added in 0.5.0

Joseph Stachelek

Contributor

Adam Sparks

Reviewer · added in 0.5.0

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.6.3Latest
record
2024-08-30 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
nassqs_byfips
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.6.1
record
2022-03-11 · diff ↗
0.6.0
record
2022-03-10 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.5.0
record
2019-08-19 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
nassqs_area, nassqs_yield

added 2 exports
nassqs_acres, nassqs_yields
0.4.0
record
2019-05-03
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-05-03
Total releases: 5 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 2.1 MB

Appears in task views

Agricultural Science

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rnassqs")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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 rnassqs version 0.6.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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