R Observatory: Metrics for spidR version 1.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

spidR

1.0.2Package record

Spider Knowledge Online

0packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Pedro CardosoCRAN page ↗

Allows the user to connect with the World Spider Catalogue (WSC; https://wsc.nmbe.ch/) and the World Spider Trait (WST; https://spidertraits.sci.muni.cz/) databases. Also performs several basic functions such as checking names validity, retrieving coordinate data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF; https://www.gbif.org/), and mapping.

Install

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

install.packages("spidR", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-spidr

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-spidR

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-spidR

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: 6.4 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 1.0.2

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 11
Examples that run: 0%10 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 91%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,376 · ~7/day · ~211/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

24730 days

65590 days

2.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on62 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing spidR adds 52 packages (31 with compiled code, 70 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, rworldmap 6.1 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (8)

graphicshttr jsonlite rgbif rworldmap rworldxtrastatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

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 (1)

Pedro Cardoso

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2021)

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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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
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.2Latest
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2021-10-18 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.1
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2021-04-19 · diff ↗
1.0.0
record
2021-04-05 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
wsc.data, wsc.names, wst.data

added 8 exports
authors, checknames, distribution, lsid, species, taxonomy, traits, wsc
0.1.0
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2021-03-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-03-18
Total releases: 4 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 15 KB / 1 file
Download size: 25 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("spidR")

Format

Cardoso, P. (2021). spidR: Spider Knowledge Online (Version 1.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.spidR

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

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 spidR version 1.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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