globaltrends

0.2.1

Download and Measure Global Trends Through 'Google' Search Volumes

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2.5Kdownloads / year

92.8%test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Harald PuhrFirst published 2022-06-234 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

'Google' offers public access to global search volumes from its search engine through the 'Google Trends' portal. The package downloads these search volumes provided by 'Google Trends' and uses them to measure and analyze the distribution of search scores across countries or within countries. The package allows researchers and analysts to use these search scores to investigate global trends based on patterns within these scores. This offers insights such as degree of internationalization of firms and organizations or dissemination of political, social, or technological trends across the globe or within single countries. An outline of the package's methodological foundations and potential applications is available as a working paper: doi:10.2139/ssrn.3969013.

Install

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

install.packages("globaltrends", 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("ha-pu/globaltrends")

Development version from ha-pu/globaltrends. 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-globaltrends

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-globaltrends

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.4 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.96

92.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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ERROR2026-07-18
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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
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 621 wordsVignettesYes · staticpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 16%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 94%
References docs: 11%

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ha-pu/globaltrends

19Stars

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4Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

1,084Commits

2Contributors

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1,084 commits · Last activity 2026-07-08 · +5.6% stars, 30d

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (5)

data.table gtrendsR reticulate (>= 1.38)statsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

hms knitr rmarkdown testthat tibble withr

Enhances (0)

none

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People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Harald Puhr

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Harald Puhr

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Harald Puhr

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Other (1)

Jakob Muellner

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Package metadata

First published: 2022-06-23
Total releases: 4 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 103 KB / 9 files
Download size: 2.1 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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