R Observatory: Metrics for zot version 0.5.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

zot

0.5.0Package record

Access 'Zotero' Libraries

0packages depend

523downloads / year

87.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Alejandro Verri KozlowskiCRAN page ↗Website ↗

Interface to the 'Zotero' reference manager https://www.zotero.org through its public web API and local client database. Provides paginated reads, versioned writes, read-only local queries, batch plans and resumable ledgers, bibliographic comparison, metadata mapping, and file attachment.

Changes in 0.5.0

zotLocalQuery() waits for Zotero to finish writing. A read retries for up to 10 seconds while the desktop client holds its write lock, instead of failing at once with "database is locked", and fails with a zotLocalError naming that wait when the lock outlasts it. The read-only connection no longer tries to set SQLite's synchronous mode, which raised the warning "Couldn't set synchronous mode". zotLocalItems(), zotLocalRecords(), zotLocalFiles() and zotStatus() read through it.
Removes ztSemantic(), the zot semantic command and the semantic plane of zotStatus() and zot doctor; zotStatus() loses its pythonPath and dbPath arguments and reports four planes. The function queried an index built by the external zotero-mcp-server through that tool's Python interpreter, which is no longer installed. The package no longer declares a Python system requirement.

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Changes the address of the public documentation to <https://kanameishi.github.io/zot/> in the URL field, the package help page, the README and the citation.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("zot", 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-zot

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-zot

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-zot

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: 2.0 min · r-release-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK4 OK2026-09-22

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.0

READMEYes · 681 wordsVignettesYes · 6 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5.0Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsiteYes

Help pages: 39 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%38 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 90%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (6)

How these are measured

Downloads

523

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,194 · ~1/day · ~44/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

43730 days

52390 days

5231 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on6 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

kanameishi/zot ↗

Responsiveness

not measured

Earlier repositories

github.com/averrik/zot · last recorded on 2026-10-25

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Repository github.com/kanameishi/zot is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing zot adds 26 packages (17 with compiled code, 18 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, RSQLite 4.2 MB, openssl 1.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (6)

data.table DBI digest httr2 jsonlite RSQLite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Alejandro Verri Kozlowski

Releases (2)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.5.0Latest
record
2026-10-25 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
ztSemantic

added 14 exports
zotCollections, zotIdentity, zotItems, zotLibraries, zotListItems, zotLocalFiles, zotLocalRecords, zotReadBatch, zotStatus, zotWriteBatch, ztAttachPlan, ztCheckPayload, ztMatches, ztTemplate
·
listed once in CRAN's queue
Seen in one reading of CRAN's incoming queue, at 2026-10-25 12:57 UTC, so it stayed less than the time between readings.
0.1.2
record
2026-09-22
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Across CRAN, the median accepted release of the past year spent 22 hours in the queue, 90% under 11 days.How queue time is measured

Package metadata

First published: 2026-09-22
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 143 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("zot")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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 zot version 0.5.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-26, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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