R Observatory: Metrics for rredlist version 1.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rredlist

1.1.1Package record

'IUCN' Red List Client

2packages depend

88.7Kdownloads / year

96.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by William GeartyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: rOpenSci

'IUCN' Red List (https://api.iucnredlist.org/) client. The 'IUCN' Red List is a global list of threatened and endangered species. Functions cover all of the Red List 'API' routes. An 'API' key is required.

Changes in 1.1.1

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

Users can now specify multiple elements to extract with rl_assessment_extract() (#77)

BUG FIXES

Fixed a bug when trying to extract assessment components containing NULL values
Fixed the vignettes directory to properly include rendered figures

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

Development version from ropensci/rredlist. 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-rredlist

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-rredlist

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-rredlist

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: 1.8 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 1.1.1

READMEYes · 880 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.1Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 49 (13 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 3%1 run in a plain check (under a condition) · 35 never run
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 73%
Help pages citing references: 59%

Vignettes (3)

Introduction to rredlist HTML
rredlist benchmarks HTML
Using rredlist within a research workflow HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

88.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,562 · ~243/day · ~7.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4K30 days

14.9K90 days

88.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on770 r2u141 autocran3.5K conda_forge158 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/rredlist ↗Organization: ropensci

65Stars

18Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

11Releases

199Commits

7Commit identities

conservationapi-wrapperbiodiversityrstatsiucn-red-listiucnrr-package

199 commits · Last activity 2025-09-04 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.1.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.1.1 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 92%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 10
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 4

Stars over time

2025-09-25 · 572026-09-17 · 65

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

16 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 9 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/rredlist on 2026-10-11.

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.Rmdpkgdown

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 5 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Research and citation (2)

codemeta.jsonZenodo

Lint, format, editor (1)

Lint workflow

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rredlist adds 12 packages (8 with compiled code, 5.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (6)

crul jsonlite lifecycle cli curl rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

spelling testthat vcr knitr rmarkdown webmockr microbenchmark ggplot2 dplyr tibble tidyr patchwork vdiffr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

5indirect

Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

taxize RuHere

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

William Gearty

Author, Maintainer since 0.7.1 (2022) · added in 0.7.1

Scott Chamberlain

Author

Maëlle Salmon

Contributor · added in 0.5.0

rOpenSci

Funder · added in 0.5.0

Kevin Cazelles

Reviewer · added in 1.0.0

Stephanie Hazlitt

Reviewer · added in 1.0.0

Previously maintained by Scott Chamberlain (0.1.0 to 0.7.0).

Releases (11)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1.1Latest
record
2025-09-04 · current release · diff ↗
1.1.0
record
2025-07-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
rl_assessment_extract, rl_assessment_list
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.0
record
2025-01-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 49 exports
rl_actions, rl_actions_, rl_api_version, rl_assessment, rl_assessment_, rl_categories, rl_categories_, rl_class, rl_class_, rl_extinct, rl_extinct_, rl_extinct_wild, rl_extinct_wild_, rl_family, rl_family_, rl_faos, rl_faos_, rl_green, rl_green_, rl_kingdom, rl_kingdom_, rl_order, rl_order_, rl_phylum, rl_phylum_, rl_pop_trends, rl_pop_trends_, rl_realms, rl_realms_, rl_research and 19 more
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.7.1
record
2022-11-11 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.7.0
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2020-10-29 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.6.0
record
2020-01-28 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.5.0
record
2018-07-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
rl_comp_groups, rl_comp_groups_, rl_use_iucn
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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0.4.0
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2017-08-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
rl_growth_forms, rl_growth_forms_
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.3.0
record
2017-01-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
rl_occ_country, rl_occ_country_
0.2.0
record
2016-10-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
rl_history, rl_history_
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.1.0
record
2016-01-26
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-01-26
Total releases: 11 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 1.2 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("rredlist")

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

It points to 10.32614/cran.package.rredlist.

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 rredlist version 1.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-19, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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