ridigbio

0.4.1

Interface to the iDigBio Data API

3packages depend

109.1Kdownloads / year

92.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jesse BennettFirst published 2015-06-1113 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An interface to iDigBio's search API that allows downloading specimen records. Searches are returned as a data.frame. Other functions such as the metadata end points return lists of information. iDigBio is a US project focused on digitizing and serving museum specimen collections on the web. See https://www.idigbio.org for information on iDigBio.

Install

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

install.packages("ridigbio", 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("iDigBio/ridigbio")

Development version from iDigBio/ridigbio. 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-ridigbio

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-ridigbio

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 8.5 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.57

92.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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 · 220 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 92%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

109.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,830 · ~299/day · ~9.1K/mo

Releases R versions

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13.4K90 days

109.1K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ idigbio/ridigbio

17Stars

10Forks

8Open issues

1Open PRs

14Releases

226Commits

11Contributors

226 commits · Last activity 2025-07-25 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-26 · 172026-07-07 · 17

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/idigbio/ridigbio on 2026-07-26.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.1

Imports (8)

statsplyr httr jsonlite leaflet kableExtra tidyverse cowplot

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

testthat markdown knitrutilsrmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

6indirect

RuHere spocc EcoCleanR

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Maintainer (1)

Jesse Bennett

Maintainer · added in 0.3.7

Authors (3)

Matthew Collins

Author

Michelle L. Gaynor

Contributor, Author · added in 0.3.8

Francois Michonneau

Author, Copyright holder

Contributors (4)

Michelle L. Gaynor

Contributor, Author · added in 0.3.8

Scott Chamberlain

Contributor

Kevin Love

Contributor · added in 0.3.4

Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna

Contributor · added in 0.3.4

Francois Michonneau

Author, Copyright holder

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Maureen Kelly

no longer listed · 0.3.6

Package Timeline

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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-06-11
Total releases: 13 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.1
Download size: 1.8 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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