R Observatory: Metrics for tradestatistics version 7.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

tradestatistics

7.1.0Package record

Open Trade Statistics API Wrapper and Utility Program

0packages depend

3.9Kdownloads / year

62.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mauricio VargasCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗rOpenSci review: issue 217 ↗rOpenSci review: issue 274 ↗

Access 'Open Trade Statistics' API from R to download international trade data.

Install

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

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

Development version from ropensci/tradestatistics. 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-tradestatistics

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-tradestatistics

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-tradestatistics

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: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-macos-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 7.1.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 7.1.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 13 (5 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 75%3 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Basic usage HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,065 · ~11/day · ~324/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31130 days

91790 days

3.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on82 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/tradestatistics ↗Organization: ropensci

82Stars

15Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

243Commits

11Commit identities

rr-packagerstatsopen-trade-statisticsapi-wrapperinternational-tradedata-tablejsonlite

License file reads as Apache-2.0 · 243 commits · Last activity 2024-08-23 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (5.0.0) than CRAN on 2026-10-21

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 92%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 8
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-04-08 · 782026-07-17 · 82

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/tradestatistics on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (3)

Code of conductContributing guideFunding

Funding links: buymeacoffee.com

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2020-01-21

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 4 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing tradestatistics adds 17 packages (12 with compiled code, 12 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (5)

crul data.table digest jsonlite memoise

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

covr knitr rmarkdown testthat tibble vcr

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 (11)

Mauricio Vargas

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2019), Copyright holder

Alexey Kravchenko

Contributor · added in 3.0.2

reviewed 2021 version of the API

Joshua Kunst

Contributor

contributed to different parts of the pre-release code

Emma Mendelsohn

Contributor · added in 3.0.2

updated the functions to take available years from the API instead of hardcoded values

Daniela de los Santos

Contributor · added in 4.4.0

proposed improvements to default parameters

Jorge Cimentada

Reviewer

reviewed a previous package that evolved into the current package for rOpenSci, see…

Amanda Dobbyn

Reviewer

reviewed a previous package that evolved into the current package for rOpenSci, see…

Mark Padgham

Reviewer

reviewed the package for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/274

Emily Riederer

Reviewer

reviewed the package for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/274

The World Bank

Data contributor · added in 0.2.3

UN Comtrade

Data contributor · added in 0.2

Listed in earlier versions (5)

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Center for International Development at Harvard University

no longer listed · 0.1 to 1.1

The Observatory of Economic Complexity

no longer listed · 0.1 to 1.1

United Nations International Trade Statistics Database

no longer listed · 0.1

Elio Campitelli

no longer listed · 1.0 to 3.0.2

Natalia de los Santos

no longer listed · 1.0 to 3.0.2

Releases (15)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

7.1.0Latest
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2026-07-21 · current release · diff ↗
7.0.0
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2026-07-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
ots_commodity_code, ots_gdp_deflator_adjustment

added 2 exports
ots_industry_code, ots_sector_code
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
6.0.0
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2025-09-22 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
5.0.0
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2024-08-23 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
4.5.0
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2023-06-30 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
4.4.0
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2022-10-04 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
ots_inflation_adjustment

added 1 export
ots_gdp_deflator_adjustment
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-03-01
3.0.2
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2022-03-01 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
ots_cache, ots_product_code, ots_product_section

added 1 export
ots_commodity_code
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-04-12
policy violation on Internet access
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-09-18

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1.1
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2020-09-18 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-09-10
policy violation On Internet access: repeated issues with remote database
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.0
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2020-04-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
ots_cache, ots_product_section
0.2.7
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2019-12-05 · diff ↗
0.2.5
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2019-09-19 · diff ↗
0.2.4
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2019-09-17 · diff ↗
0.2.3
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2019-08-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
ots_inflation_adjustment
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.2
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2019-04-22 · diff ↗
0.1
record
2019-04-06
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-04-06
Total releases: 15 / 7 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2) · relicensed from GPL-3 in 3.0.2
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 7.6 KB / 4 files
Download size: 37 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("tradestatistics")

Format

Vargas, M., Cimentada, J., Dobbyn, A., Kravchenko, A., Kunst, J., Mendelsohn, E., Padgham, M., Riederer, E., The World Bank, , UN Comtrade, , & de los Santos, D. (2026). tradestatistics: Open Trade Statistics API Wrapper and Utility Program (Version 7.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.tradestatistics

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for tradestatistics version 7.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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