R Observatory: Metrics for substackR version 0.1.15

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

substackR

0.1.15Package record

Access Substack Data via API

0packages depend

1.8Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jason RandCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

An interface to access data from Substack publications via API. Users can fetch the latest, top, search for specific posts, or retrieve a single post by its slug. This functionality is useful for developers and researchers looking to analyze Substack content or integrate it into their applications. For more information, visit the API documentation at https://substackapi.dev/introduction.

Changes in 0.1.15

Initial CRAN submission.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("substackR", 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("posocap/substackR")

Development version from posocap/substackR. 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-substackr

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-substackR

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-substackR

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: 1.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.15

READMEYes · 203 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1.15Citation fileNo

Help pages: 5
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to substackR HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

1.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,083 · ~5/day · ~149/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

21130 days

51690 days

1.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on71 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

posocap/substackr ↗Account: posocap

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

19Commits

1Commit identities

19 commits · Last activity 2025-06-08 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (0.0.9) than CRAN on 2026-10-18

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-12-29 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/posocap/substackr on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (2)

README.Rmdpkgdown

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing substackR adds 13 packages (9 with compiled code, 5.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (3)

cli httr2 rlang

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)

Jason Rand

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.15 (2025)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.15Latest
record
2025-06-17 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-06-17
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 17 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("substackR")

Format

Rand, J. (2025). substackR: Access Substack Data via API (Version 0.1.15) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.substackR

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 substackR version 0.1.15 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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