R Observatory: Metrics for letsRept version 1.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

letsRept

1.1.2

An Interface to the Reptile Database

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

50.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by João Paulo dos Santos Vieira-AlencarFirst published 2025-08-225 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides tools to retrieve and summarize taxonomic information and synonymy data for reptile species using data scraped from The Reptile Database website (https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/). Outputs include clean and structured data frames useful for ecological, evolutionary, and conservation research.

Install

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

install.packages("letsRept", 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("joao-svalencar/letsRept")

Development version from joao-svalencar/letsRept. 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-letsrept

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-letsRept

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-letsRept

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.07

50.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

10

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

READMEYes · 355 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 60%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 24%

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,846 · ~8/day · ~249/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

11730 days

72790 days

3K1 year

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Also on161 r2u5 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ joao-svalencar/letsrept

5Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

316Commits

3Contributors

reptilessystematicstaxonomyweb-scraping

316 commits · Last activity 2026-06-22 · +25% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-03 · 22026-07-07 · 5

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/joao-svalencar/letsrept on 2026-08-03.

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

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (10)

dplyr httrparallelpbapply pbmcapply rvest stringr tidyrutilsxml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

João Paulo dos Santos Vieira-Alencar

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

João Paulo dos Santos Vieira-Alencar

Author, Maintainer

Christoph Liedtke

Author

Package Timeline

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

1.1.2Latest
2026-06-22 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1.1
2026-03-28 · diff ↗
1.1.0
2025-10-21 · diff ↗
1.0.1
2025-08-23 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2025-08-22
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-08-22
Total releases: 5 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 3.6 MB / 6 files
Download size: 3.6 MB
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("letsRept")

CRAN DOI

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

BibTeX, derived from DESCRIPTION

@Manual{letsRept,
  title  = {letsRept: An Interface to the Reptile Database},
  author = {Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo dos Santos and Liedtke, Christoph},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {R package version 1.1.2},
  doi    = {10.32614/CRAN.package.letsRept},
  url    = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=letsRept}
}

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{robservatoryletsRept,
  author    = {Balamuta, James Joseph},
  title     = {{R} {Observatory}: Metrics for {letsRept} version 1.1.2},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {HJJB, LLC},
  url       = {https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/letsRept},
  note      = {Data set. Data release v2026-08-05}
}

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for letsRept version 1.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-05. https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/letsRept

RIS

TY  - DATA
AU  - Balamuta, James Joseph
TI  - R Observatory: Metrics for letsRept version 1.1.2
PY  - 2026
PB  - HJJB, LLC
N1  - Data release v2026-08-05
UR  - https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/letsRept
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/letsRept.

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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