rdryad

1.0.0

Access for Dryad Web Services

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3.2Kdownloads / year

66.1%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Scott ChamberlainFirst published 2012-02-238 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Interface to the Dryad "Solr" API, their "OAI-PMH" service, and fetch datasets. Dryad (https://datadryad.org/) is a curated host of data underlying scientific publications.

Install

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

install.packages("rdryad", 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("ropensci/rdryad")

Development version from ropensci/rdryad. 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-rdryad

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-rdryad

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.94

66.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
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OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 92 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

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Rank #14,914 · ~9/day · ~268/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci/rdryad

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174Commits

9Contributors

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Repository practices

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Makefile

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cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (7)

crul curl tibble hoardr zip jsonlite mime

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat vcr

Enhances (0)

none

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People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Scott Chamberlain

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Authors (3)

Scott Chamberlain

Author, Maintainer

Carl Boettiger

Author

Karthik Ram

Author

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-02-23
Total releases: 8 / 14 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 59 KB
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