R Observatory: Metrics for caRecall version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

caRecall

0.1.0

Government of Canada Vehicle Recalls Database API Wrapper

0packages depend

2.9Kdownloads / year

14.5%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Nathan SmithFirst published 2021-02-161 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides API access to the Government of Canada Vehicle Recalls Database https://tc.api.canada.ca/en/detail?api=VRDB used by the Defect Investigations and Recalls Division for vehicles, tires, and child car seats. The API wrapper provides access to recall summary information searched using make, model, and year range, as well as detailed recall information searched using recall number.

Install

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

install.packages("caRecall", 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("WraySmith/caRecall")

Development version from WraySmith/caRecall. 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-carecall

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-caRecall

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-caRecall

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.40

14.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
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Documentation

READMEYes · 271 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,836 · ~8/day · ~240/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ wraysmith/carecall

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221Commits

3Contributors

cranr-packagevehicle-recalls-databaseapi-wrapper

221 commits · Last activity 2021-02-16

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/wraysmith/carecall on 2026-08-03.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Coverage (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

httr jsonlite tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

testthat covr knitr rmarkdown dplyr ggplot2 spelling RColorBrewer

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Nathan Smith

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Nathan Smith

Author, Maintainer

Mitch Harris

Author

Ryan Koenig

Author

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2021-02-16
Total releases: 1 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 92 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Start here. This is the citation for the package itself.

citation("caRecall")

CRAN DOI

https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.caRecall

BibTeX, derived from DESCRIPTION

@Manual{caRecall,
  title  = {caRecall: Government of Canada Vehicle Recalls Database API Wrapper},
  author = {Smith, Nathan and Harris, Mitch and Koenig, Ryan},
  year   = {2021},
  note   = {R package version 0.1.0},
  doi    = {10.32614/CRAN.package.caRecall},
  url    = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=caRecall}
}

Derived from the package DESCRIPTION, not from a citation file the authors wrote. If they publish one later, prefer it.

This is the citation for the package. It is not a citation for the R Observatory.

Cite this page

Use this when the claim is about a measurement on this page.

BibTeX

@misc{robservatorycaRecall,
  author    = {Balamuta, James Joseph},
  title     = {{R} {Observatory}: Metrics for {caRecall} version 0.1.0},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {HJJB, LLC},
  url       = {https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/caRecall},
  note      = {Data set. Data release v2026-08-05}
}

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for caRecall version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-05. https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/caRecall

RIS

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AU  - Balamuta, James Joseph
TI  - R Observatory: Metrics for caRecall version 0.1.0
PY  - 2026
PB  - HJJB, LLC
N1  - Data release v2026-08-05
UR  - https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/caRecall
ER  -

In prose

These package metrics were obtained from the R Observatory (Balamuta, 2026), data release v2026-08-05, https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/caRecall.

Bound to data release v2026-08-05, which is what makes the numbers on this page reproducible. See how to cite.

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