R Observatory: Metrics for wikiTools version 1.2.26

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

wikiTools

1.2.26

Tools for Wikidata and Wikipedia

0packages depend

3.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

10/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Modesto EscobarFirst published 2022-03-249 releasesCRAN page ↗

A set of wrappers intended to check, read and download information from the Wikimedia sources. It is specifically created to work with names of celebrities, in which case their information and statistics can be downloaded. Additionally, it also builds links and snippets to use in combination with the function gallery() in netCoin package.

Install

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

install.packages("wikiTools", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-wikitools

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-wikiTools

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-wikiTools

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

3ERROR10OK

Failing flavors

ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
ERROR r-patched-linux-x86_64
ERROR r-release-linux-x86_64

Slowest check: 3.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

6

Dependencies · direct

Check history

ERROR2026-07-27
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OK2026-07-22
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ERROR2026-07-18
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-14
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-07-13
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 23 earlier snapshots

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ERROR2026-07-01
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OK2026-06-23
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ERROR2026-06-14
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OK2026-06-09
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ERROR2026-06-08
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OK2026-05-26
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-19
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-17
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ERROR2026-05-08
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OK2026-05-06
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ERROR2026-04-29
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-22
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-15
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-12
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ERROR2026-04-11
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-09
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-26
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-21
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-19
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-17
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-16
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 10 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 49%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,298 · ~11/day · ~323/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

25530 days

1.1K90 days

3.9K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (6)

curl httr jsonlite collections netCoin evolMap

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Modesto Escobar

Author, Copyright holder, Maintainer

Authors (5)

Modesto Escobar

Author, Copyright holder, Maintainer

Author

Author

Author

Author

Copyright holders (1)

Modesto Escobar

Author, Copyright holder, Maintainer

Package Timeline

9 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

1.2.26Latest
2026-08-22 · current release · diff ↗
1.2.24
2026-05-25 · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.2.21
2026-03-16 · diff ↗
1.2.15
2025-10-19 · diff ↗
1.2.14
2025-07-11 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.2.8
2025-03-31 · diff ↗
1.2.7
2024-07-28 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.2.4
2024-04-13 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.0.6
2022-03-24
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-03-24
Total releases: 9 / 4 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 89 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("wikiTools")

Format

Escobar, M., Barrios, D., Calvo, C., Prieto, C., & Zazo, Á. (2026). wikiTools: Tools for Wikidata and Wikipedia (Version 1.2.26) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.wikiTools

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for wikiTools version 1.2.26 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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