auk

0.9.1

eBird Data Extraction and Processing in R

1packages depend

15.2Kdownloads / year

75.4%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Matthew Strimas-MackeyFirst published 2017-07-0524 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Extract and process bird sightings records from eBird (http://ebird.org), an online tool for recording bird observations. Public access to the full eBird database is via the eBird Basic Dataset (EBD; see http://ebird.org/ebird/data/download for access), a downloadable text file. This package is an interface to AWK for extracting data from the EBD based on taxonomic, spatial, or temporal filters, to produce a manageable file size that can be imported into R.

Install

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

install.packages("auk", 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("CornellLabofOrnithology/auk")

Development version from CornellLabofOrnithology/auk. 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-auk

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-auk

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-auk

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.39

75.4%

Coverage · measured lines

98%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 85%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 2%

Downloads

15.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,759 · ~42/day · ~1.3K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ cornelllabofornithology/auk

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8Releases

250Commits

9Contributors

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License GPL-3.0 · 250 commits · Last activity 2026-03-20 · +0.6% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

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cran-comments.md

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (10)

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none

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Reverse dependencies

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People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Matthew Strimas-Mackey

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Matthew Strimas-Mackey

Author, Maintainer

Wesley Hochachka

Author

Eliot Miller

Author

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Package Timeline

24 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-07-05
Total releases: 24 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 394 KB / 4 files
Download size: 1.3 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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