R Observatory: Metrics for tidygedcom version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

tidygedcom

0.2.0Package record

Read and Tidy 'GEDCOM' Genealogy Files

0packages depend

465downloads / year

94.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by S. Mason GarrisonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Reads and parses 'GEDCOM' (Genealogical Data Communication) files, the standard interchange format exported by genealogical software, and converts them into tidy data frames. Individuals, families, life events, and parent-child links are extracted into rectangular structures suitable for pedigree and kinship analysis. Additional helpers summarize file contents, convert place coordinates, and repair malformed records. Wikipedia family tree templates can be parsed into the same tidy structure. For a discussion of these and related data structures see [Hunter et al. (2026) doi:10.1007/s10519-026-10259-z].

Changes in 0.2.0

Transferred addPersonToPed from BGmisc to tidygedcom.
Removed multiple duplicated people from Royal92
Implemented CRAN-related requests, moved example for internal functions to a unit test.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("tidygedcom", 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("R-Computing-Lab/tidygedcom")

Development version from R-Computing-Lab/tidygedcom. 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-tidygedcom

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-tidygedcom

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-tidygedcom

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-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK2 OK2026-09-01

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 518 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · evaluation depends on the environmentNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 51 (31 internal)
Examples that run: 100%15 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 94%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

GEDCOM to Pedigree Analysis HTML
Getting Started with tidygedcom HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

465

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,664 · ~1/day · ~39/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

21630 days

46590 days

4651 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on11 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-computing-lab/tidygedcom ↗Organization: R-Computing-Lab

2Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

112Commits

2Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 112 commits · Last activity 2026-08-21 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 33%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 15
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 5

Stars over time

2026-09-01 · 12026-09-11 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

15 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 8 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-computing-lab/tidygedcom 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 (3)

Code of conductContributing guidePR template (inherited from r-computing-lab)

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-21 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-08-21, before release 0.2.0 (2026-09-01)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 4 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-06-15
Seen in the repository: .github/copilot-instructions.md
Claude Codefirst seen 2026-06-16
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Named in .gitignore: .claude

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing tidygedcom adds 23 packages (14 with compiled code, 29 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, igraph 4.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (7)

BGmisc dplyr igraph purrr rlang stringr tidyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

discord EasyMx ggpedigree ggplot2 kinship2 knitr OpenMx rmarkdown testthat tidyverse withr

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 (2)

S. Mason Garrison

Christian Waugh

Author, Data contributor

Releases (1)

0.2.0Latest
record
first seen 2026-09-01 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First seen: 2026-09-01
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 47 KB / 1 file
Download size: 897 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("tidygedcom")

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 tidygedcom version 0.2.0 [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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