R Observatory: Metrics for rorcid version 0.7.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rorcid

0.7.0Package record

Interface to the 'Orcid.org' API

0packages depend

10.5Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

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

Client for the 'Orcid.org' API (https://orcid.org/). Functions included for searching for people, searching by 'DOI', and searching by 'Orcid' 'ID'.

Changes in 0.7.0

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

orcid_search() changes: now returns number of records found as an attribute; get it by doing attr(x, "found") if x is the result of a call to orcid_search(). In addition, added an example of retreiving number of records found, as well as added more documentation to the function page on pagination. (#86)
Auth gains a 3rd method: 2 legged OAuth. Updated ?orcid_auth docs on the 3 different auth methods, as well as the README and auth vignette. (#87)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

Development version from ropensci/rorcid. 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-rorcid

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-rorcid

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-rorcid

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: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.7.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 0.7.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 37 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%31 never run
Exported functions with examples: 97%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 94%
Help pages citing references: 8%

How these are measured

Downloads

10.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,253 · ~29/day · ~876/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

43530 days

1.3K90 days

10.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on108 r2u4 autocran614 conda_forge166 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci-archive/rorcid ↗Organization: ropensci-archiveArchived

Moved from ropensci/rorcid.

109Stars

15Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

8Releases

324Commits

7Commit identities

api-wrapperorciddoischolarly-metadataidentifiersrstatsrorcid-api

324 commits · Last activity 2022-09-09 · Default branch at 0.7.1.91, ahead of CRAN 0.7.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 44
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-05-15 · 1092026-07-07 · 109

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

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

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 (2)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2019-08-06

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 v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rorcid adds 27 packages (18 with compiled code, 16 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, openssl 1.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (7)

crul httr fauxpas jsonlite xml2 tibble data.table

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

testthat knitr rcrossref handlr httpuv vcr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Scott Chamberlain

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2015)

rOpenSci

Funder · added in 0.5.0

https://ropensci.org/

Releases (8)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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0.5.0
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2019-06-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
orcid_citations, orcid_distinctions, orcid_invited_positions, orcid_memberships, orcid_qualifications, orcid_research_resources, orcid_search, orcid_services
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2018-02-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 16 exports
orcid_activities, orcid_address, orcid_auth, orcid_bio, orcid_educations, orcid_email, orcid_employments, orcid_external_identifiers, orcid_fundings, orcid_keywords, orcid_other_names, orcid_peer_reviews, orcid_person, orcid_ping, orcid_researcher_urls, orcid_works
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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2016-09-22 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
type_summ

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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-12-07
Total releases: 8 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 783 KB / 2 files
Download size: 869 KB

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citation("rorcid")

Format

Chamberlain, S., & rOpenSci. (2021). rorcid: Interface to the 'Orcid.org' API (Version 0.7.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rorcid

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rorcid version 0.7.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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