R Observatory: Metrics for dbx version 0.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

dbx

0.4.0Package record

A Fast, Easy-to-Use Database Interface

0packages dependsuggested by 1

9.6Kdownloads / year

69.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Andrew KaneCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides select, insert, update, upsert, and delete database operations. Supports 'PostgreSQL', 'MySQL', 'SQLite', and more, and plays nicely with the 'DBI' package.

Changes in 0.4.0

Added support for DuckDB
Added support for returning option for dbxInsert and dbxUpsert for SQLite 3.35.0+ and SQL Server
Fixed typecasting with ODBC for MariaDB

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("dbx", 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("ankane/dbx")

Development version from ankane/dbx. 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-dbx

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-dbx

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-dbx

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: 54 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.0

READMEYes · 999 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 8
Examples that run: 88%7 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

9.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,778 · ~26/day · ~799/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

67130 days

1.8K90 days

9.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on97 r2u6 autocran93 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ankane/dbx ↗Account: ankane

189Stars

15Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

560Commits

2Commit identities

560 commits · Last activity 2026-01-07 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 33%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 14

Stars over time

2025-08-28 · 1872026-07-07 · 189

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ankane/dbx on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing dbx adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 727 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: DBI 727 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

DBI

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

testthat urltools RSQLite RMariaDB RMySQL RPostgres RPostgreSQL hms jsonlite blob odbc

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

dataquieR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Andrew Kane

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2018)

Releases (13)

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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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2019-01-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-07-05
Total releases: 13 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 22 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("dbx")

Format

Kane, A. (2025). dbx: A Fast, Easy-to-Use Database Interface (Version 0.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.dbx

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for dbx version 0.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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