Scott Chamberlain

72 packages 22 years on CRAN 0000-0003-2542-2202

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998.4K

Last 30 days

2.9M

Last 90 days

10.7M

Last year

Average trend: +1.9% (30d vs prior 30d)

Top Packages by Downloads

gtools

416.8K

plotly

258.8K

git2r

44.6K

rentrez

37.6K

crul

24.6K

httpcode

22.8K

bibtex

14.4K

rgbif

rotl

8.3K

jqr

7.6K

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Aggregate CRAN check results across 22 maintained packages.

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Recent Activity

cffr updated v1.4.1 Jun 17, 2026

Generate Citation File Format ('CFF') Metadata for R Packages

rnpn updated v1.4.2 Jun 17, 2026

Interface to the USA National 'Phenology' Network 'API'

nasapower updated v4.3.0 Jun 2, 2026

NASA POWER API Client

cffr updated v1.4.0 May 4, 2026

Generate Citation File Format ('CFF') Metadata for R Packages

metacoder new v0.3.9 Apr 11, 2026

Tools for Parsing, Manipulating, and Graphing Taxonomic Abundance Data

traits new v0.6.0 Apr 10, 2026

Species Trait Data from Around the Web

rfishbase updated v5.0.3 Apr 7, 2026

R Interface to 'FishBase'

rgbif updated v3.8.5 Mar 20, 2026

Interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility API

cffr updated v1.3.0 Mar 13, 2026

Generate Citation File Format ('CFF') Metadata for R Packages

FedData new v4.3.0 Mar 10, 2026

Download Geospatial Data Available from Several Federated Data Sources

Maintained Packages

22 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
crul	HTTP Client	24.6K	1.6.0
httpcode	'HTTP' Status Code Helper	22.8K	0.3.0
vcr	Record 'HTTP' Calls to Disk	7.1K	2.1.0
solrium	General Purpose R Interface to 'Solr'	7K	1.2.0
ritis	Integrated Taxonomic Information System Client	6.8K	1.0.0
natserv	'NatureServe' Interface	6.3K	1.0.0
fauxpas	HTTP Error Helpers	5.2K	0.6.0
webmockr	Stubbing and Setting Expectations on 'HTTP' Requests	5K	2.2.0
gistr	Work with 'GitHub' 'Gists'	3.8K	0.9.0
cowsay	Messages, Warnings, Strings with Ascii Animals	1.6K	1.2.2
pangaear	Client for the 'Pangaea' Database	918	1.1.0
rorcid	Interface to the 'Orcid.org' API	831	0.7.0
conditionz	Control How Many Times Conditions are Thrown	773	0.1.0
isdparser	Parse 'NOAA' Integrated Surface Data Files	749	0.4.0
citecorp	Client for the Open Citations Corpus	608	0.3.0
sofa	Connector to 'CouchDB'	605	0.4.0
sixtyfour	Humane Interface to Amazon Web Services	562	0.2.0
finch	Parse Darwin Core Files	326	0.4.0
rdryad	Access for Dryad Web Services	283	1.0.0
request	High Level 'HTTP' Client	267	0.1.0
httping	'Ping' 'URLs' to Time 'Requests'	206	0.3.0
randgeo	Generate Random 'WKT' or 'GeoJSON'	205	0.3.0

Co-authored Packages

35 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
plotly	Create Interactive Web Graphics via 'plotly.js'	258.8K	4.12.0
rgbif	Interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility API	9K	3.8.5
jqr	Client for 'jq', a 'JSON' Processor	7.6K	1.4.0
oai	General Purpose 'Oai-PMH' Services Client	7.4K	0.4.0
taxize	Taxonomic Information from Around the Web	7.4K	0.10.1
rredlist	'IUCN' Red List Client	7.4K	1.1.1
worrms	World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) Client	7.2K	0.4.3
RNeXML	Semantically Rich I/O for the 'NeXML' Format	7.2K	2.4.11
wikitaxa	Taxonomic Information from 'Wikipedia'	6.7K	0.5.0
geojsonio	Convert Data from and to 'GeoJSON' or 'TopoJSON'	6.2K	0.11.3
geojson	Classes for 'GeoJSON'	5.9K	0.3.5
spocc	Interface to Species Occurrence Data Sources	5.5K	1.2.4
rvertnet	Search 'Vertnet', a 'Database' of Vertebrate Specimen Records	4.5K	0.8.4
rebird	R Client for the eBird Database of Bird Observations	4.4K	1.3.0
rcrossref	Client for Various 'CrossRef' 'APIs'	2K	1.2.1
rfishbase	R Interface to 'FishBase'	1.7K	5.0.3
hoardr	Manage Cached Files	1.7K	0.5.5
ckanr	Client for the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network ('CKAN') API	1.3K	0.7.0
rerddap	General Purpose Client for 'ERDDAP™' Servers	1.1K	1.2.3
taxadb	A High-Performance Local Taxonomic Database Interface	1K	0.2.1
ghql	General Purpose 'GraphQL' Client	939	0.1.2
charlatan	Make Fake Data	906	0.6.2
analogsea	Interface to 'DigitalOcean'	905	1.0.7.2
traits	Species Trait Data from Around the Web	715	0.6.0
parzer	Parse Messy Geographic Coordinates	712	0.4.4
elastic	Database Interface to 'Elasticsearch' and 'OpenSearch'	584	1.2.2
rnpn	Interface to the USA National 'Phenology' Network 'API'	564	1.4.2
nodbi	'NoSQL' Database Connector	535	0.14.0
handlr	Convert Among Citation Formats	481	0.3.1
taxa	Classes for Storing and Manipulating Taxonomic Data	463	0.4.4
taxizedb	Offline Access to Taxonomic Databases	417	0.3.2
rgnparser	Parse Scientific Names	347	0.3.0
phylocomr	Interface to 'Phylocom'	327	0.3.4
rdatacite	Client for the 'DataCite' API	290	0.5.4
dataspice	Create Lightweight Schema.org Descriptions of Data	278	1.1.1

Contributions

11 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
gtools	Various R Programming Tools	416.8K	3.9.5
git2r	Provides Access to Git Repositories	44.6K	0.36.2
rentrez	'Entrez' in R	37.6K	1.2.4
bibtex	Bibtex Parser	14.4K	0.5.2
ridigbio	Interface to the iDigBio Data API	4.7K	0.4.1
redland	RDF Library Bindings in R	3.2K	1.0.17-19
metacoder	Tools for Parsing, Manipulating, and Graphing Taxonomic Abundance Data	1.2K	0.3.9
FedData	Download Geospatial Data Available from Several Federated Data Sources	739	4.3.0
rphylopic	Get Silhouettes of Organisms from PhyloPic	653	1.6.0
dataone	R Interface to the 'DataONE' REST API	563	2.3.0
sbtools	USGS ScienceBase Tools	447	1.4.1

Other Roles

4 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
rotl	Interface to the 'Open Tree of Life' API	8.3K	3.1.1
nasapower	NASA POWER API Client	2.3K	4.3.0
cffr	Generate Citation File Format ('CFF') Metadata for R Packages	2.2K	1.4.1
stplanr	Sustainable Transport Planning	1.6K	1.2.3

Roles

Maintains 22

Co-authors 35

Contributes 11

Impact

1.1K

packages depend on their work

Frequent Collaborators

Carl Boettiger 9 pkgs

Karthik Ram 8 pkgs

Jeroen Ooms 6 pkgs

Maëlle Salmon 6 pkgs

Zachary Foster 5 pkgs

Andy Teucher 3 pkgs

Bryce Mecum 3 pkgs

Noam Ross 3 pkgs

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On CRAN Since

May 29, 2005

22 years active

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