R Observatory: Metrics for rtoot version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rtoot

1.0.0Package record

Collecting and Analyzing Mastodon Data

0packages dependsuggested by 1

13.3Kdownloads / year

72.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by David SchochCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

An implementation of calls designed to collect and organize Mastodon data via its Application Program Interfaces (API), which can be found at the following URL: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/.

Changes in 1.0.0

correct return value in post_toot() documentation (#185)
added simple error handling in post_toot() (#185)
use withr in tests (#180)
switched to httr2 (#169)
use tryCatch for long running queries (#142)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("rtoot", 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("gesistsa/rtoot")

Development version from gesistsa/rtoot. 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-rtoot

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-rtoot

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-rtoot

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: 2.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-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 1.0.0

READMEYes · 633 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 38 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%34 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 16%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

13.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,495 · ~36/day · ~1.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

60230 days

1.5K90 days

13.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on913 r2u4 autocran101 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

gesistsa/rtoot ↗Organization: gesistsa

109Stars

19Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

8Releases

318Commits

12Commit identities

mastodonmastodon-apirstatsrstats-package

318 commits · Last activity 2026-02-22 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 94%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-03 · 1042026-07-07 · 109

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/gesistsa/rtoot 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 (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (5)

README.RmdpkgdownQuarto project

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-02-23 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-02-23

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 5 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

data-raw/Binder

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

Lint, format, editor (4)

AirEditorConfigVS CodeRStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rtoot adds 22 packages (14 with compiled code, 8.3 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2

Imports (8)

cli clipr curl dplyr httr2 jsonlitemethodstibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

knitr rmarkdown rstudioapi testthat vcr (>= 0.6.0)withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

vosonSML

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

David Schoch

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2022)

Chung-hong Chan

Author

Lluís Revilla Sancho

Author · added in 0.3.6

Johannes Gruber

Contributor

Tim Schatto-Eckrodt

Contributor · added in 0.3.5

Releases (10)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.0Latest
record
2026-02-22 · current release · diff ↗
0.3.6
record
2025-07-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
post_thread
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3.5
record
2024-10-30 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.3.4
record
2024-01-09 · diff ↗
0.3.3
record
2023-11-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
get_list_accounts, get_lists, post_list_accounts, post_list_create
0.3.2
record
2023-06-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
post_status
0.3.1
record
2023-06-05 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.3.0
record
2023-01-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
rtoot
0.2.0
record
2022-11-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
convert_token_to_envvar, get_instance_blocks, get_instance_rules, parse_stream, stream_timeline_hashtag, stream_timeline_list, stream_timeline_public, verify_envvar
0.1.0
record
2022-11-11
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-11-11
Total releases: 10 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2
Download size: 1.4 MB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("rtoot")

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

It points to 10.1177/20501579231176678.

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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 rtoot version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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