R Observatory: Metrics for telegramR version 0.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

telegramR

0.0.2Package record

Interact with the 'Telegram' 'MTProto' API

0packages depend

1.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Roman KyrychenkoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides a full-featured client for the 'Telegram' 'MTProto' protocol (https://core.telegram.org/api), enabling programmatic access to 'Telegram' chats, channels, messages, media, and stories. Implements binary encoding and decoding of the 'Telegram' 'TL' (Type Language) schema, authentication (including two-factor), encrypted transport, and high-level helpers for downloading channel history and reactions at scale. Intended for social-science research and data collection tasks that require direct API access rather than the 'Bot API'.

Changes in 0.0.2

Removed unused sample video files from inst/extdata, shrinking the source tarball to ~3.4Mb (under CRAN's 5Mb guideline).
Exported TelegramClient, the high-level client class, so TelegramClient$new() works after library(telegramR) (its @export had been in a comment that roxygen ignored, leaving it inaccessible).
Synced the bundled 'Telegram' TL schema to layer 229 and regenerated all TL type and request classes, fixing dialog and message parsing against current 'Telegram' servers.
Reworked the schema code-generation tooling in data-raw/ entirely in R (generate_tl.R, overwrite_stale.R, dedupe_types.R, emit_missing.R, and the regenerate.R pipeline), replacing the previous scripts. The pipeline is idempotent and documents every generated class with roxygen.

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Fixed serialisation of 64-bit integers and byte fields, and the send-media chain.
Fixed the asynchronous test helpers to resolve promises objects, and a latent unqualified openssl::rand_bytes() call in the obfuscated transport.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("telegramR", 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("RomanKyrychenko/telegramR")

Development version from RomanKyrychenko/telegramR. 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-telegramr

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-telegramR

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-telegramR

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: 47.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK12 OK, 1 FAILURE2026-10-01
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-30
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-23
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-07
ERROR5 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-03

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.0.2

READMEYes · 324 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.0.2Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 32
Examples that run: 0%1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 3%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

1.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,027 · ~4/day · ~129/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

40630 days

89990 days

1.6K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

romankyrychenko/telegramr ↗Account: RomanKyrychenko

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

apitelegram

Last activity 2026-10-09

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

PRs over time

2026-07-07 · 02026-10-09 · 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/romankyrychenko/telegramr 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

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-09 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-09

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrLint workflow

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen on or before 2026-05-01
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: 19 by its own account · at least 43 crediting it in the message
GitHub Copilotfirst seen on or before 2026-05-05
Commits: at least 22 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 5.519 commits · Oct 2026
Claude Opus 4.815 commits · Sep 2026
Claude Opus 4.79 commits · May 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

39 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing telegramR adds 40 packages (26 with compiled code, 16 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: promises 3.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, logger 1.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (18)

Rcpp digest openssl base64enc jsonlite R6 future httr logger promises later bitops gmp xml2 mime tibble dplyr callr

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (20)

data.table testthat withr exiftoolr fs getPass magick knitr rmarkdown ggplot2 lubridate tidyr covr devtools readr stringr stopwords RColorBrewer scales stringi

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)

Roman Kyrychenko

Releases (2)

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0.0.2Latest
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2026-09-30 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
TelegramClient
0.0.1
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2026-06-02
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-06-02
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 3.3 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("telegramR")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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 telegramR version 0.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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