galah

2.2.0

Biodiversity Data from the GBIF Node Network

1packages depend

6.3Kdownloads / year

43.4%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Martin WestgateFirst published 2021-04-0618 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility ('GBIF', https://www.gbif.org) sources data from an international network of data providers, known as 'nodes'. Several of these nodes - the "living atlases" (https://living-atlases.gbif.org) - maintain their own web services using software originally developed by the Atlas of Living Australia ('ALA', https://www.ala.org.au). 'galah' enables the R community to directly access data and resources hosted by 'GBIF' and its partner nodes.

Install

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

install.packages("galah", 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("AtlasOfLivingAustralia/galah-R")

Development version from AtlasOfLivingAustralia/galah-R. 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-galah

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-galah

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-galah

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.3 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.67

43.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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

Documentation

READMEYes · 357 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 86%
References docs: 3%

Downloads

6.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,305 · ~17/day · ~523/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ atlasoflivingaustralia/galah-r

49Stars

4Forks

24Open issues

0Open PRs

18Releases

2,996Commits

20Contributors

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2,996 commits · Last activity 2026-07-24 · +2.1% stars, 30d

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

26 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.3.0

Imports (18)

cli crayon dplyr glue httr2 jsonlite (>= 0.9.8)lifecycle potions purrr readr rlang sf stringr tibble tidyr tidyselectutilsxml2

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People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Martin Westgate

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Martin Westgate

Author, Maintainer

Dax Kellie

Author · added in 1.2.0

Contributors (2)

Shandiya Balasubramaniam

Contributor · added in 2.2.0

Matilda Stevenson

Contributor

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Peggy Newman

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 2.1.2

Package Timeline

18 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 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2.0.0
2023-11-20 · diff ↗
1.5.4
2023-10-14 · diff ↗
1.5.3
2023-07-01 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-07-01
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-03-11
issues were not corrected in time

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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
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2022-10-10
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-08-21
archivedRemoved from CRAN
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-04-06
Total releases: 18 / 5 yrs
License: MPL-2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.3.0
Download size: 1.6 MB
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