R Observatory: Metrics for robis version 2.12.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

robis

2.12.0Package record

Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) Client

0packages dependsuggested by 1

10.5Kdownloads / year

69.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Pieter ProvoostCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Client for the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (https://obis.org).

Changes in 2.12.0

Added a startup message pointing to https://obis.org/data/access/ for large downloads.
Added keyword parameter to dataset() for keyword search of dataset metadata via the /dataset/search2 endpoint.
Added q parameter to occurrence() for text search.
Moved httpcache from Imports to Suggests (only needed when request caching is enabled).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("robis", 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("iobis/robis")

Development version from iobis/robis. 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-robis

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-robis

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-robis

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: 4.1 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-26
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.12.0

READMEYes · 555 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · evaluation depends on the environmentNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.12.0Citation fileNo

Help pages: 14 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 83%5 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 46%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

getting-started

How these are measured

Downloads

10.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,974 · ~29/day · ~876/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

82030 days

2.3K90 days

10.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on114 r2u5 autocran2.8K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

iobis/robis ↗Organization: iobis

49Stars

15Forks

20Open issues

3Open PRs

9Releases

240Commits

6Commit identities

240 commits · Last activity 2026-09-23 · +2.1% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.12.1, ahead of CRAN 2.12.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 254
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-09-03 · 442026-09-27 · 49

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/iobis/robis on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-23

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Research and citation (1)

Zenodo

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Cursorfirst seen on or before 2026-07-24
Commits: at least 4 crediting it in the message
Claude Codefirst seen 2026-09-23
Commits: at least 1 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 5.51 commit · Sep 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

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing robis adds 111 packages (62 with compiled code, 104 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.3

Imports (20)

httr dplyr jsonlite leaflet ggplot2 tidyr tibble mapedit sf rlang purrr stringr curl data.table tidyselect xml2 glue memoisestatsmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

testthat knitr rmarkdown spelling httpcache

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

EcoCleanR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Pieter Provoost

Maintainer since 2.0.0 (2019), Author

Samuel Bosch

Author

Ward Appeltans

Contributor

Stephen Formel

Contributor · added in 2.12.0

OBIS

Copyright holder

Previously maintained by Samuel Bosch (1.0.1) and OBIS (1.0.0).

Releases (12)

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2.12.0Latest
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2026-07-24 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.11.3
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2022-09-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
generate_citation, unnest_extension
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.8.2
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2021-10-13 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-09-30
2.8.1
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2021-09-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
dna_records
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-07-19
policy violation On Internet access
2.6.0
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2021-07-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
taxon
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.3.9
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2020-07-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
get_geometry, measurements
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
2.1.8
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2019-06-03 · diff ↗

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2.1.6
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2019-05-31 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
2.1.0
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2019-02-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
area, dataset, node
2.0.0
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2019-02-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 8 exports
area, dataset, group, leafletmap, node, qcflags, taxon, taxon_common

added 2 exports
map_ggplot, map_leaflet
1.0.1
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2018-07-02 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.0.0
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2017-12-21
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-12-21
Total releases: 12 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.3
Download size: 236 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("robis")

Format

Provoost, P., Appeltans, W., Bosch, S., Formel, S., & OBIS, . (2026). robis: Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) Client (Version 2.12.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.robis

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for robis version 2.12.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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