R Observatory: Metrics for traits version 0.6.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

traits

0.6.0Package record

Species Trait Data from Around the Web

0packages dependsuggested by 1

4Kdownloads / year

9.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by David LeBauerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Species trait data from many sources, including sequence data from NCBI (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/), plant traits from BETYdb, and data from EOL Traitbank and BirdLife International.

Changes in 0.6.0

REMOVED FUNCTIONS

Fully removed previously defunct functions:
tr_usda() (defunct since v0.5.0, #122)
coral_* functions (defunct since v0.5.0, #124)
is_native(), g_invasive(), eol_invasive(), fe_native() (defunct since v0.3.0, #72)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

Updated package documentation and examples to reflect current APIs
Changed from \dontrun to \donttest in examples that require internet access.
Documented return values.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

Development version from ropensci/traits. 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-traits

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-traits

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-traits

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: 1.9 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
OK6 OK2026-04-11

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.6.0

READMEYes · 335 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · staticNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 0.6.0Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 16 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%13 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 25%

Vignettes (2)

traits introduction HTML
BETYdb Tutorial HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,279 · ~11/day · ~333/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

50830 days

1.5K90 days

4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on110 r2u5 autocran1.2K conda_forge163 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/traits ↗Organization: ropensci

42Stars

13Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

8Releases

424Commits

13Commit identities

traitsspeciesapi-clientrrstatsr-package

424 commits · Last activity 2026-02-18 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 87%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 316
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2024-10-30 · 412026-07-29 · 42

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

13 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/traits on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

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 (1)

README.Rmd

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Research and citation (2)

CITATION.cffcodemeta.json

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-01-24
Pull request: opened by its own account
Commits: 5 by its own account

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

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing traits adds 65 packages (37 with compiled code, 47 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, igraph 4.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (10)

crul data.table hoardr httr (>= 1.1.0)jsonlite readr rvest (>= 0.3.1)taxize tibble xml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

dplyr knitr plyr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

metacoder

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (7)

David LeBauer

Author, Maintainer since 0.5.1 (2024)

Ignasi Bartomeus

Author

Chris Black

Author · added in 0.4.0

Scott Chamberlain

Author, Copyright holder

Zachary Foster

Author

David Harris

Author · added in 0.1.2

Rupert Collins

Contributor · added in 0.4.0

Previously maintained by Scott Chamberlain (0.1.0 to 0.5.0).

Releases (9)

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R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-04-10
0.6.0Latest
record
2026-04-10 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 11 exports
coral_locations, coral_methodologies, coral_resources, coral_species, coral_taxa, coral_traits, eol_invasive_, fe_native, g_invasive, is_native, tr_usda
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-10-14
policy violation Requires orphaned package 'taxize'
0.5.1
record
2024-05-17 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.5.0
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2020-08-27 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.4.2
record
2019-06-29 · diff ↗
0.4.0
record
2019-06-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
betydb_experiment
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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0.3.0
record
2017-09-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
betydb_query, betydb_record, tr_ernest, tr_usda, tr_zanne, traits_cache
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.2.0
record
2016-03-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
taxa_search
0.1.2
record
2015-09-12 · diff ↗
0.1.0
record
2015-06-12
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-06-12
Total releases: 9 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 86 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.6 MB

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("traits")

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The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for traits version 0.6.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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