rglobi

0.3.4

Interface to Global Biotic Interactions

0packages depend

4Kdownloads / year

67.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jorrit PoelenFirst published 2015-01-2921 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A programmatic interface to the web service methods provided by Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/). GloBI provides access to spatial-temporal species interaction records from sources all over the world. rglobi provides methods to search species interactions by location, interaction type, and taxonomic name.

Install

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

install.packages("rglobi", 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/rglobi")

Development version from ropensci/rglobi. 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-rglobi

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-rglobi

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 13.13

67.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
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Documentation

READMEYes · 121 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,933 · ~11/day · ~334/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci/rglobi

18Stars

11Forks

5Open issues

1Open PRs

21Releases

316Commits

16Contributors

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316 commits · Last activity 2026-02-02 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/rglobi on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.1

Imports (3)

readr RCurl curl

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

testthat openssl httr markdown knitr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Jorrit Poelen

Author, Maintainer

Authors (4)

Author, Maintainer

Author

Author

Author · added in 0.2.28

Package Timeline

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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2015-01-29
Total releases: 21 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.1
Download size: 117 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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