dataone

2.3.0

R Interface to the 'DataONE' REST API

1packages depend

12.8Kdownloads / year

38.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Matthew B. JonesFirst published 2013-02-2511 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides read and write access to data and metadata from the 'DataONE' network https://www.dataone.org of data repositories. Each 'DataONE' repository implements a consistent repository application programming interface. Users call methods in R to access these remote repository functions, such as methods to query the metadata catalog, get access to metadata for particular data packages, and read the data objects from the data repository. Users can also insert and update data objects on repositories that support these methods.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)

install.packages("dataone", 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("DataONEorg/rdataone")

Development version from DataONEorg/rdataone. 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-dataone

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Check history

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

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Downloads

12.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,275 · ~35/day · ~1.1K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ dataoneorg/rdataone

35Stars

19Forks

67Open issues

0Open PRs

10Releases

1,192Commits

31Contributors

1,192 commits · Last activity 2026-04-09

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/dataoneorg/rdataone on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.1

Imports (11)

XML httrmethodsstringi stringr datapack plyr parsedate uuid base64enc jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

curl knitr rmarkdown testthat digest openssl xml2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

geoflow

Code & Tests

People & History

People (12)

Maintainer (1)

Matthew B. Jones

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.0.0

Authors (8)

Matthew B. Jones

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.0.0

Carl Boettiger

Author · added in 2.0.0

Jeanette Clark

Author · added in 2.2.1

Chris Jones

Author · added in 2.0.0

Bryce Mecum

Author · added in 2.2.1

Rob Nahf

Author

Peter Slaughter

Author · added in 2.0.0

Lauren Walker

Author · added in 2.0.0

Contributors (3)

Scott Chamberlain

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Edmund Hart

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Jordan Read

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Regents of the University of California

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Matthew Jones

no longer listed · 1.0.0

Package Timeline

11 releases. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.3.0Latest
2025-12-10 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-12-10
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-12-04
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.2.2
2022-06-10 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.2.1
2020-12-06 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
2.1.4
2020-02-16 · diff ↗
2.1.3
2020-01-31 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-01-31
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-01-13
policy violation Repeated failures on Internet access

Show 15 earlier events

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
2.1.2
2019-01-29 · diff ↗
2.1.1
2018-06-28 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
2.1.0
2017-08-18 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
2.0.1
2016-08-30 · diff ↗
2.0.0
2016-05-27 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2014-08-29
'dataonelibs' was
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
R
R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
1.0.0
2013-02-25
R
R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2013-02-25
Total releases: 11 / 13 yrs
License: Apache License 2.0 OSI
Download size: 307 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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