gtrendsR

1.5.2

Perform and Display Google Trends Queries

2packages depend

43.3Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Philippe MassicotteFirst published 2015-11-2818 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An interface for retrieving and displaying the information returned online by Google Trends is provided. Trends (number of hits) over the time as well as geographic representation of the results can be displayed.

Install

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

install.packages("gtrendsR", 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("PMassicotte/gtrendsR")

Development version from PMassicotte/gtrendsR. 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-gtrendsr

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-gtrendsR

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-gtrendsR

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.00

0.0%

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 · 148 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 50%
References docs: 17%

Downloads

43.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,870 · ~119/day · ~3.6K/mo

Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ pmassicotte/gtrendsr

371Stars

111Forks

35Open issues

0Open PRs

17Releases

602Commits

20Contributors

googlegoogle-trends

602 commits · Last activity 2025-08-26 · +0.3% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-05 · 3552026-07-16 · 371

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/pmassicotte/gtrendsr on 2026-07-26.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (4)

ggplot2 jsonlite anytime curl

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

globaltrends trendyy

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Philippe Massicotte

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Philippe Massicotte

Author, Maintainer

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-11-28
Total releases: 18 / 11 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 725 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.5 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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