traits

0.6.0

Species Trait Data from Around the Web

1packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

9.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by David LeBauerFirst published 2026-04-109 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Species trait data from many sources, including sequence data from NCBI (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/), plant traits from BETYdb, and data from EOL Traitbank and BirdLife International.

Install

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

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

Development version from ropensci/traits. 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-traits

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-traits

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-traits

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.1 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.21

9.8%

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
OK2026-04-11
6 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 335 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 25%

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,526 · ~7/day · ~216/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci/traits

42Stars

13Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

8Releases

424Commits

13Contributors

traitsspeciesapi-clientrrstatsr-package

424 commits · Last activity 2026-04-05 · +2.4% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/traits on 2026-07-30.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Research and citation (2)

CITATION.cffcodemeta.json

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (10)

crul data.table hoardr httr (>= 1.1.0)jsonlite readr rvest (>= 0.3.1)taxize tibble xml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

dplyr knitr plyr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

metacoder

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (7)

Maintainer (1)

David LeBauer

Author, Maintainer

Authors (6)

David LeBauer

Author, Maintainer

Ignasi Bartomeus

Author

Chris Black

Author · added in 0.4.0

Scott Chamberlain

Author, Copyright holder

Zachary Foster

Author

David Harris

Author · added in 0.1.2

Contributors (1)

Rupert Collins

Contributor · added in 0.4.0

Scott Chamberlain

Author, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.6.0Latest
2026-04-10 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-04-10
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-10-14
policy violation Requires orphaned package 'taxize'
0.5.1
2024-05-17 · diff ↗
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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
0.5.0
2020-08-27 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.4.2
2019-06-29 · diff ↗
0.4.0
2019-06-07 · diff ↗
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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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0.3.0
2017-09-22 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.2.0
2016-03-18 · diff ↗
0.1.2
2015-09-12 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2015-06-12
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2026-04-10
Total releases: 9 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 86 KB / 1 file
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