R Observatory: Metrics for sbtools version 1.4.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sbtools

1.4.1Package record

USGS ScienceBase Tools

1packages depend

5.7Kdownloads / year

43.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

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

Tools for interacting with U.S. Geological Survey ScienceBase https://www.sciencebase.gov interfaces. ScienceBase is a data cataloging and collaborative data management platform. Functions included for querying ScienceBase, and creating and fetching datasets.

Changes in 1.4.1

improved item_rm_files() to use the cloud file removal utility. #334 and #336

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("sbtools", 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("DOI-USGS/sbtools")

Development version from DOI-USGS/sbtools. 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-sbtools

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-sbtools

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-sbtools

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 1.4.1

READMEYes · 384 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.4.1Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 54 (7 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%13 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 27 never run
Exported functions with examples: 76%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 71%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

sbtools -- getting started HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

5.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,917 · ~16/day · ~478/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

61930 days

1.4K90 days

5.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on197 r2u6 autocran1K conda_forge90 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

doi-usgs/sbtools ↗Organization: DOI-USGS

24Stars

20Forks

10Open issues

0Open PRs

29Releases

814Commits

15Commit identities

rusgssciencebaserstatsr-package

License file reads as CC0-1.0 · 814 commits · Last activity 2026-10-08 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 99%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 150
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-09 · 232026-08-14 · 24

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/doi-usgs/sbtools on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowGitLab CI

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

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-08

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing sbtools adds 12 packages (10 with compiled code, 3.9 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (9)

jsonlite curl httrmethodsmimeutilscli keyringtools

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

testthat xml2 sf knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

elfgen

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

David Blodgett

Maintainer since 1.1.9 (2020) · added in 1.1.9

Author

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Previously maintained by Tim Kern (1.1.6) and Luke Winslow (1.0.2 to 1.1.3).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Tim Kern

no longer listed · 1.1.6 to 1.1.12

Releases (22)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.4.1Latest
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2025-07-14 · current release · diff ↗
1.4.0
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2025-07-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
items_create, items_update, items_upsert

added 3 exports
get_cached_token, get_username, token_stache_path
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.3.2
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2024-03-21 · diff ↗
1.3.1
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2024-01-09 · diff ↗
1.3.0
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2023-12-20 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
sbtools_DELETE, session_age_reset, session_logout, set_expiration

added 1 export
initialize_sciencebase_session
1.2.0
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2023-05-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
item_publish_cloud
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.1.21
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2022-11-03 · diff ↗
1.1.20
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2022-10-28 · diff ↗
1.1.19
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2022-07-14 · diff ↗
1.1.18
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2022-05-26 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
item_get_wfs

added 1 export
item_upload_cloud
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.1.17
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2021-07-20 · diff ↗

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1.1.16
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2021-07-01 · diff ↗
1.1.15
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2021-06-04 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-02-16
1.1.14
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2021-02-16 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-02-08
policy violation Repeated failures over Internet access
1.1.13
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1.1.12
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2020-08-30 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.1.11
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2020-04-20 · diff ↗
1.1.10
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2020-03-20 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-01-08
1.1.9
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2020-01-08 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-05-13
policy violation Frequently failing web resources
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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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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.1.6
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2016-09-27 · diff ↗
1.1.3
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2016-08-19 · diff ↗
1.0.2
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2016-06-23
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-06-23
Total releases: 22 / 10 yrs
License: CC0
Download size: 217 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("sbtools")

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

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 sbtools version 1.4.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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