galaxias

0.1.2

Describe, Package, and Share Biodiversity Data

0packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

67.5%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Martin WestgateFirst published 2025-07-073 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The Darwin Core data standard is widely used to share biodiversity information, most notably by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and its partner nodes; but converting data to this standard can be tricky. 'galaxias' is functionally similar to 'devtools', but with a focus on building Darwin Core Archives rather than R packages, enabling data to be shared and re-used with relative ease. For details see Wieczorek and colleagues (2012) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029715.

Install

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

install.packages("galaxias", 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/galaxias")

Development version from AtlasOfLivingAustralia/galaxias. 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-galaxias

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-galaxias

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-galaxias

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

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

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.67

67.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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

READMEYes · 535 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 88%
References docs: 11%

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,797 · ~7/day · ~210/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ atlasoflivingaustralia/galaxias

8Stars

1Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

464Commits

5Contributors

464 commits · Last activity 2026-07-28 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-05-28 · 12026-07-07 · 8

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/atlasoflivingaustralia/galaxias on 2026-07-26.

Continuous integration (1)

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Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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RStudio project

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

26 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 4.3.0corella

Imports (14)

cli delma dplyr fs glue httr2 jsonlite purrr readr rlang tibble usethis withr zip

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

gt here janitor knitr lubridate rmarkdown R.utils stringr testthat tidyr xml2

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)

Martin Westgate

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Martin Westgate

Author, Maintainer

Shandiya Balasubramaniam

Author

Dax Kellie

Author

Package Timeline

3 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.2Latest
2026-01-23 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-01-23
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-01-15
requires archived package 'delma'
0.1.1
2025-10-22 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2025-07-07
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-07-07
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: MPL-2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.3.0
Download size: 400 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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