R Observatory: Metrics for spocc version 1.2.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

spocc

1.2.4Package record

Interface to Species Occurrence Data Sources

4packages dependsuggested by 2

109.9Kdownloads / year

60.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hannah OwensCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: rOpenSci

A programmatic interface to many species occurrence data sources, including Global Biodiversity Information Facility ('GBIF'), 'iNaturalist', 'eBird', Integrated Digitized 'Biocollections' ('iDigBio'), 'VertNet', Ocean 'Biogeographic' Information System ('OBIS'), and Atlas of Living Australia ('ALA'). Includes functionality for retrieving species occurrence data, and combining those data.

Changes in 1.2.4

Documentation

Link to ridigbio::idig_search_records() fixed for as.idigbio().

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

Development version from ropensci/spocc. 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-spocc

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-spocc

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-spocc

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: 2.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.4

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 1.2.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 22 (6 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 6%1 run in a plain check · 14 never run · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 83%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 61%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

109.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,614 · ~301/day · ~9.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4.9K30 days

14.1K90 days

109.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on363 r2u8 autocran2.2K conda_forge791 bioconda64 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/spocc ↗Organization: ropensci

127Stars

28Forks

20Open issues

0Open PRs

22Releases

885Commits

8Commit identities

gbifvertnetecoengineantwebebirddataapirstats

885 commits · Last activity 2025-12-06 · +0.8% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 96%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 1252026-10-04 · 127

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/spocc 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)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2019-11-13

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing spocc adds 133 packages (67 with compiled code, 106 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (13)

utilsrgbif rebird rvertnet ridigbio lubridate crul whisker jsonlite data.table tibble wk s2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat taxize vcr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

2indirect

Imports 4

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

rangeModelMetadata wallace h3sdm paisaje

Suggests, most downloaded first

ENMeval PointedSDMs

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Hannah Owens

Author, Maintainer since 1.2.1 (2023) · added in 1.2.1

Vijay Barve

Author · added in 1.2.1

Author

Contributor

Contributor

Funder · added in 0.9.0

Previously maintained by Scott Chamberlain (0.1.0 to 1.2.0).

Releases (27)

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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
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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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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
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
3.0.3Latest
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2014-03-04 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 27 exports
basemaps, bbox2wkt, fixnames, get_colors, get_palette, mapggplot, mapgist, mapleaflet, occ, occ2df, occ2sp, occ_options, occ_to_sp, palettes, spocc_blanktheme, spocc_capwords, spocc_colClasses, spocc_commas_to_periods, spocc_create_gist, spocc_gbifxmlToDataFrame, spocc_get_credentials, spocc_gist, spocc_parseresults, spocc_rcharts_togeojson, spocc_stylegeojson, spocc_togeojson, wkt2bbox
1.2.4
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2025-12-06 · diff ↗
1.2.3
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2024-03-06 · diff ↗

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1.2.2
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2023-03-23 · diff ↗
1.2.1
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2023-03-08 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
as.bison
1.2.0
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2021-01-05 · diff ↗
1.1.0
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2020-07-31 · diff ↗
1.0.8
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2020-02-11 · diff ↗
1.0.2
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2019-11-02 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2019-10-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
obis_search
0.9.0
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2018-11-15 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
as.antweb
0.8.0
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2018-07-05 · diff ↗
0.7.0
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2017-04-21 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
wkt_read, wkt_write
0.6.0
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2016-12-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
as.ala, as.obis
0.5.4
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2016-10-08 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
spocc_colClasses
0.5.0
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2016-04-23 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
spocc_type_sum
0.4.5
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2016-01-27 · diff ↗
0.4.4
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2016-01-23 · diff ↗
0.4.0
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2015-10-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
as.vertnet
0.3.2
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2015-09-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
as.idigbio
0.3.0
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2015-07-04 · diff ↗ ·
removed 13 exports
basemaps, clean_spocc, get_colors, get_palette, mapggplot, mapgist, mapleaflet, occ_to_sp, palettes, spocc_blanktheme, spocc_rcharts_togeojson, spocc_stylegeojson, spocc_togeojson

added 8 exports
as.antweb, as.bison, as.ecoengine, as.gbif, as.inat, inspect, wkt_read, wkt_write
0.2.4
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2015-01-22 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
occ2sp, spocc_create_gist, spocc_gbifxmlToDataFrame, spocc_get_credentials, spocc_gist
0.2.2
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2014-10-24 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
spocc_commas_to_periods, spocc_parseresults

added 2 exports
occ_names, occ_names_options
0.2.0
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2014-08-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
spocc_type_sum
0.1.4
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2014-06-25 · diff ↗
0.1.2
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2014-05-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
clean_spocc, wkt_vis
0.1.0
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2014-03-05
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published: 2014-03-04
Total releases: 27 / 12 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 640 KB

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Cite this package

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citation("spocc")

Format

Owens, H., rOpenSci, Barve, V., Chamberlain, S., Hart, T., & Ram, K. (2025). spocc: Interface to Species Occurrence Data Sources (Version 1.2.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.spocc

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for spocc version 1.2.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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