R Observatory: Metrics for dimensionsR version 0.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

dimensionsR

0.0.3Package record

Gathering Bibliographic Records from 'Digital Science Dimensions' Using 'DSL' API

1packages depend

156.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Massimo AriaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A set of tools to extract bibliographic content from 'Digital Science Dimensions' using 'DSL' API https://www.dimensions.ai/dimensions-apis/.

Install

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

install.packages("dimensionsR", 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("massimoaria/dimensionsR")

Development version from massimoaria/dimensionsR. 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-dimensionsr

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-dimensionsR

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-dimensionsR

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: 57 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

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

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.0.3

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 5
Examples that run: 0%5 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

dimensionsR: A brief example HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

156.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,093 · ~428/day · ~13K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

12.8K30 days

33.8K90 days

156.4K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

massimoaria/dimensionsr ↗Account: massimoaria

48Stars

6Forks

8Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

56Commits

2Commit identities

gathering-bibliographic-recordsds-dimensionsdsl-apibibliometrixbibliometricsgrantsgrants-searchbibliographic-database

56 commits · Last activity 2024-02-09 · +2.1% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 16
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 18

Stars over time

2025-10-16 · 442026-10-14 · 48

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/massimoaria/dimensionsr on 2026-10-21.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing dimensionsR adds 8 packages (6 with compiled code, 3.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

httr jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

bibliometrix knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

1indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

bibliometrix

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Massimo Aria

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2020)

Releases (3)

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-03-20
Total releases: 3 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 31 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("dimensionsR")

Format

Aria, M. (2022). dimensionsR: Gathering Bibliographic Records from 'Digital Science Dimensions' Using 'DSL' API (Version 0.0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.dimensionsR

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 dimensionsR version 0.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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