R Observatory: Metrics for vkR version 0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

vkR

0.2Package record

Access to VK API via R

0packages depend

2.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dmitriy SorokinCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides an interface to the VK API https://vk.com/dev/methods. VK https://vk.com/ is the largest European online social networking service, based in Russia.

Install

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

install.packages("vkR", 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("Dementiy/vkR")

Development version from Dementiy/vkR. 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-vkr

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-vkR

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-vkR

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: 2.6 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 0.2

READMEYes · 223 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 104includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%32 never run
Exported functions with examples: 34%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 5%
Help pages citing references: 1%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,497 · ~8/day · ~239/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33230 days

85290 days

2.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on81 r2u2 autocran123 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

dementiy/vkr ↗Account: Dementiy

56Stars

19Forks

20Open issues

3Open PRs

0Releases

274Commits

5Commit identities

rvkontakteapi

274 commits · Last activity 2020-09-25

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 67%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/dementiy/vkr on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing vkR adds 16 packages (13 with compiled code, 7.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (7)

graphicshttr purrr jsonlitestatsutilsXML

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

stringr tm plyr dplyr reshape2 jpeg igraph rgexf httpuv mongolite

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)

Dmitriy Sorokin

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2016)

Anton Antonov

Contributor

Releases (2)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
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
0.2Latest
record
2020-09-29 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
getNetwork

added 32 exports
boardGetComments, boardGetCommentsExecute, boardGetCommentsList, collection_exists, create_empty_collection, db_drop, db_drop_collection, db_getActive, db_getName, db_get_collection, db_get_connection, db_init, db_insert, db_load, db_load_collection, db_save, db_update, getEgoNetwork, getGroupsById, getMutualExecute, getTopics, getTopicsExecute, groupsSearch, messagesSend, newsfeedSearch, or, profile_fields, setRepeats, setTimeout, show_collections and 2 more
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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
0.1
record
2016-12-02
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-12-02
Total releases: 2 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 63 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("vkR")

Format

Sorokin, D., & Antonov, A. (2020). vkR: Access to VK API via R (Version 0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.vkR

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 vkR version 0.2 [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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