duckdbfs

0.1.2

High Performance Remote File System, Database and 'Geospatial' Access Using 'duckdb'

6packages depend

27.2Kdownloads / year

67.8%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Carl BoettigerFirst published 2023-08-0911 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides friendly wrappers for creating 'duckdb'-backed connections to tabular datasets ('csv', parquet, etc) on local or remote file systems. This mimics the behaviour of "open_dataset" in the 'arrow' package, but in addition to 'S3' file system also generalizes to any list of 'http' URLs.

Install

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

install.packages("duckdbfs", 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("cboettig/duckdbfs")

Development version from cboettig/duckdbfs. 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-duckdbfs

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-duckdbfs

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-duckdbfs

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.36

67.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
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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
OK2026-05-24
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-17
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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ERROR2026-05-13
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OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,607 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 65%
References docs: 10%

Downloads

27.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,910 · ~74/day · ~2.3K/mo

Releases R versions

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27.2K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ cboettig/duckdbfs

101Stars

6Forks

10Open issues

1Open PRs

2Releases

214Commits

4Contributors

214 commits · Last activity 2026-04-22 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-30 · 872026-07-07 · 101

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/cboettig/duckdbfs on 2026-07-30.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2

Imports (6)

DBI dbplyr dplyr duckdb fs glue

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

curl sf jsonlite spelling minioclient testthat (>= 3.0.0)

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

6indirect

gbifdb neonUtilities neonstore rfishbase duckspatial overtureR

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Carl Boettiger

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Carl Boettiger

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Michael D. Sumner

Contributor · added in 0.0.5

Package Timeline

11 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
0.1.2Latest
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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0.0.3
2023-10-19 · diff ↗
0.0.2
2023-09-07 · diff ↗
0.0.1
2023-08-09
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-08-09
Total releases: 11 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2
Download size: 509 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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