R Observatory: Metrics for geniusr version 1.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

geniusr

1.2.1

Tools for Working with the 'Genius' API

0packages depend

5.6Kdownloads / year

19.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ewen HendersonFirst published 2017-12-064 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides tools to interact nicely with the 'Genius' API https://docs.genius.com/. Search hosted content, extract associated metadata and retrieve lyrics with ease.

Install

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

install.packages("geniusr", 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("ewenme/geniusr")

Development version from ewenme/geniusr. 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-geniusr

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-geniusr

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-geniusr

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.20

19.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

8

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 90%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

5.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,413 · ~15/day · ~470/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

21330 days

79790 days

5.6K1 year

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Also on92 r2u3 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ ewenme/geniusr

51Stars

16Forks

3Open issues

2Open PRs

0Releases

169Commits

6Contributors

rgenius-apigeniusrstatslyrics

169 commits · Last activity 2024-05-10 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-29 · 512026-07-07 · 51

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ewenme/geniusr on 2026-08-03.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsTravis CIAppVeyor

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (8)

curl dplyr httr purrr rvest stringr tibble xml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown testthat covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Ewen Henderson

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Ewen Henderson

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

4 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 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.2.1Latest
2022-09-04 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.2.0
2020-04-13 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.1.0
2019-01-20 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.0.0
2017-12-06
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-12-06
Total releases: 4 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 69 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Start here. This is the citation for the package itself.

citation("geniusr")

CRAN DOI

https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.geniusr

BibTeX, derived from DESCRIPTION

@Manual{geniusr,
  title  = {geniusr: Tools for Working with the 'Genius' API},
  author = {Henderson, Ewen},
  year   = {2022},
  note   = {R package version 1.2.1},
  doi    = {10.32614/CRAN.package.geniusr},
  url    = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=geniusr}
}

Derived from the package DESCRIPTION, not from a citation file the authors wrote. If they publish one later, prefer it.

This is the citation for the package. It is not a citation for the R Observatory.

Cite this page

Use this when the claim is about a measurement on this page.

BibTeX

@misc{robservatorygeniusr,
  author    = {Balamuta, James Joseph},
  title     = {{R} {Observatory}: Metrics for {geniusr} version 1.2.1},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {HJJB, LLC},
  url       = {https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/geniusr},
  note      = {Data set. Data release v2026-08-05}
}

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for geniusr version 1.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-05. https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/geniusr

RIS

TY  - DATA
AU  - Balamuta, James Joseph
TI  - R Observatory: Metrics for geniusr version 1.2.1
PY  - 2026
PB  - HJJB, LLC
N1  - Data release v2026-08-05
UR  - https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/geniusr
ER  -

In prose

These package metrics were obtained from the R Observatory (Balamuta, 2026), data release v2026-08-05, https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/geniusr.

Bound to data release v2026-08-05, which is what makes the numbers on this page reproducible. See how to cite.

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