ebirdst

4.2023.0

Access and Analyze eBird Status and Trends Data Products

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10.1Kdownloads / year

72.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Matthew Strimas-MackeyFirst published 2019-04-0427 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Tools for accessing and analyzing eBird Status and Trends Data Products (https://science.ebird.org/en/status-and-trends). eBird (https://ebird.org/home) is a global database of bird observations collected by member of the public. eBird Status and Trends uses these data to model global bird distributions, abundances, and population trends at a high spatial and temporal resolution.

Install

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

install.packages("ebirdst", 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("ebird/ebirdst")

Development version from ebird/ebirdst. 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-ebirdst

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

# 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-ebirdst

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.29

72.0%

Coverage · measured lines

98%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 32%
Documented parameters: 90%
Return-value docs: 93%
References docs: 3%

Downloads

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Rank #5,866 · ~28/day · ~843/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ebird/ebirdst

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License GPL-3.0 · 126 commits · Last activity 2026-07-22 · 0% stars, 30d

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cran-comments.md

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (15)

arrow dplyrgrDevicesjsonlite magrittr RColorBrewer rlang scales sfstatsstringr terratoolsutilsviridisLite

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none

Suggests (9)

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People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Matthew Strimas-Mackey

Author, Maintainer

Authors (4)

Matthew Strimas-Mackey

Author, Maintainer

Tom Auer

Author

Daniel Fink

Author

Shawn Ligocki

Author · added in 0.3.0

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-04-04
Total releases: 27 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 94 KB / 3 files
Download size: 370 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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