tezr: Retrieve Turkish National Thesis Center metadata

[emraher]

Submitting Author Name: Emrah Er
Submitting Author Github Handle: @emraher
Other Package Authors Github handles:
Repository: https://github.com/emraher/tezr
Version submitted: 0.1.0.9000
Submission type: Standard
Editor: @LucyMcGowan
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Language: en

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• Paste the full DESCRIPTION file inside a code block below:

Package: tezr
Title: Access Thesis Metadata from Turkiye's National Thesis Center
Version: 0.1.0.9000
Authors@R:
    person("Emrah", "Er", , "eer@eremrah.com", role = c("aut", "cre"))
Description: Retrieve, parse, cache, and analyze thesis metadata from the
    Council of Higher Education's National Thesis Center (Ulusal Tez Merkezi)
    at <https://tez.yok.gov.tr>. Supports basic, advanced, and detailed
    search. Also supports thesis detail retrieval, lookup tables, adaptive
    pagination for capped search results, and aggregate statistics for
    retrieval checks.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://eremrah.com/tezr/, https://github.com/emraher/tezr
BugReports: https://github.com/emraher/tezr/issues
Encoding: UTF-8
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
Depends:
    R (>= 4.1.0)
Imports:
    httr2,
    rvest,
    dplyr,
    tibble,
    tidyr,
    purrr,
    stringr,
    stringi,
    cli,
    rlang
Suggests:
    testthat (>= 3.0.0),
    withr,
    knitr,
    rmarkdown,
    ggplot2,
    readr
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Config/Needs/website: emraher/eerdown
VignetteBuilder: knitr
LazyData: true

Scope

• Please indicate which category or categories from our package fit policies this package falls under:

  • data retrieval
  • data extraction
  • data munging
  • data deposition
  • data validation and testing
  • workflow automation
  • version control
  • citation management and bibliometrics
  • scientific software wrappers
  • field and lab reproducibility tools
  • database software bindings
  • geospatial data
  • translation
  • rOpenSci internal tools

• Explain how and why the package falls under these categories:

tezr retrieves public thesis metadata from Turkiye's National Thesis Center. The portal has no documented public API or bulk export, so the package provides scripted access to search forms, thesis detail pages, lookup tables, and capped result pagination.

• Who is the target audience and what are scientific applications of this package?

The target audience is researchers studying higher education, graduate training, scholarly production, language and subject patterns, institutional research output, and thesis access status in Turkiye. Scientific applications include reproducible thesis metadata retrieval, bibliometric preparation, field-level or institution-level trend analysis, and retrieval completeness checks for studies based on National Thesis Center records.

• Are there other R packages that accomplish the same thing? If so, how does yours differ or meet our criteria for best-in-category?

I am not aware of another R package that retrieves and parses metadata from Turkiye's National Thesis Center. Adjacent rOpenSci packages such as rentrez and europepmc retrieve scholarly metadata from formal APIs. tezr differs because the National Thesis Center exposes records through a public web portal rather than a documented API. bibliometrix focuses on downstream bibliometric analysis after data have been obtained. tezr focuses on retrieval, parsing, caching, completeness checks, and preparation of National Thesis Center metadata for analysis.

• Does your package comply with our guidance around Ethics, Data Privacy and Human Subjects Research?

Yes. tezr retrieves public thesis metadata exposed by the National Thesis Center. It does not download thesis full text, bypass access restrictions, collect credentials, or handle private user data. The package identifies itself with a package-specific user agent, applies request delays and retries, caches repeated requests, and documents responsible use. The documentation asks users to avoid unnecessary repeated requests, cite the National Thesis Center or Council of Higher Education, record retrieval dates, and avoid redistributing metadata in ways that conflict with the source portal's terms.

• If you made a pre-submission inquiry, please paste the link to the corresponding issue, forum post, or other discussion, or @tag the editor you contacted.

No pre-submission inquiry was made.

• Explain reasons for any pkgcheck items which your package is unable to pass.

None. An uncached local pkgcheck::pkgcheck(".", use_cache = FALSE) run passed. The GitHub Actions pkgcheck workflow also passes on main.

Technical checks

• I have read the rOpenSci packaging guide.
• I have read the author guide and I expect to maintain this package for at least 2 years or to find a replacement.

This package:

• does not violate the Terms of Service of any service it interacts with.
• has a CRAN and OSI accepted license.
• contains a README with instructions for installing the development version.
• includes documentation with examples for all functions, created with roxygen2.
• contains a vignette with examples of its essential functions and uses.
• has a test suite.
• has continuous integration, including reporting of test coverage.

Use of Generative AI

• Generative AI tools were used to produce some of the material in this submission.

OpenAI Codex was used to assist with package readiness review, code revisions, test planning, verification, and drafting this submission text. The package maintainer reviewed and committed the code, documentation, and submission materials. Relevant recent repository changes include emraher/tezr@c653d99 and emraher/tezr@127e8f7.

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Checks for tezr (v0.1.0.9000)

git hash: 127e8f7c

• ✔️ Package name is available
• ✔️ has a 'contributing' file.
• ✔️ uses 'roxygen2'.
• ✔️ 'DESCRIPTION' has a URL field.
• ✔️ 'DESCRIPTION' has a BugReports field.
• ✔️ Package has at least one HTML vignette
• ✔️ All functions have examples.
• ✔️ Repository has a website
• ✔️ Package has continuous integration checks.
• ✔️ Package coverage is 100%.
• ✔️ All goodpractice linters passed.
• ✔️ R CMD check found no errors.
• ✔️ R CMD check found no warnings.
• 👀 Function names are duplicated in other packages

(Checks marked with 👀 may be optionally addressed.)

Package License: MIT + file LICENSE

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1. Package Dependencies

Details of Package Dependency Usage (click to open)

The table below tallies all function calls to all packages ('ncalls'), both internal (r-base + recommended, along with the package itself), and external (imported and suggested packages). 'NA' values indicate packages to which no identified calls to R functions could be found. Note that these results are generated by an automated code-tagging system which may not be entirely accurate.

type	package	ncalls
internal	base	587
internal	tezr	476
internal	graphics	38
internal	stats	16
internal	utils	3
internal	Matrix	1
internal	methods	1
imports	stringr	38
imports	rvest	27
imports	httr2	22
imports	dplyr	11
imports	stringi	2
imports	cli	2
imports	tibble	1
imports	tidyr	NA
imports	purrr	NA
imports	rlang	NA
suggests	testthat	NA
suggests	withr	NA
suggests	knitr	NA
suggests	rmarkdown	NA
suggests	ggplot2	NA
suggests	readr	NA
linking_to	NA	NA

Click below for tallies of functions used in each package. Locations of each call within this package may be generated locally by running 's <- pkgstats::pkgstats(<path/to/repo>)', and examining the 'external_calls' table.

base

list (159), return (87), c (28), length (27), character (26), if (24), args (20), is.na (13), paste0 (12), for (11), as.integer (10), nrow (8), is.null (7), match (7), suppressWarnings (7), emptyenv (6), new.env (6), all (5), sum (5), vector (5), integer (4), min (4), names (4), nchar (4), seq_along (4), seq_len (4), seq.int (4), as.character (3), attr (3), do.call (3), identical (3), lapply (3), rep (3), strsplit (3), Sys.time (3), tolower (3), which (3), as.numeric (2), difftime (2), getOption (2), identity (2), is.infinite (2), labels (2), regexpr (2), sprintf (2), substr (2), Sys.getenv (2), units (2), any (1), by (1), ceiling (1), cumsum (1), drop (1), duplicated (1), expand.grid (1), Filter (1), format (1), get (1), grepl (1), gsub (1), isTRUE (1), ls (1), max (1), mean (1), Negate (1), open (1), paste (1), range (1), round (1), rowSums (1), search (1), setdiff (1), split (1), sqrt (1), startsWith (1), Sys.Date (1), toString (1), transform (1), trimws (1), tryCatch (1), vapply (1), version (1)

tezr

clean_text (24), coalesce_missing (20), form_int (16), form_text (13), result_record_column (13), extract_first_detail_field (12), get_doc_field (9), empty_results_tibble (7), create_session (5), horizontal_detail_cell (5), merge_keywords (5), split_abstract_block (5), coerce_search_fields (4), detail_cell_text (4), extract_labeled_value (4), extract_stat_thesis_type (4), fetch_and_parse_stats (4), get_cached (4), make_detail_key (4), make_search_key (4), normalize_language_label (4), validate_optional_id (4), build_detail_request (3), coalesce_text (3), collapse_subjects (3), derive_abstract_fields_from_html (3), extract_access_status (3), extract_keywords (3), extract_keywords_from_index (3), extract_stat_language (3), extract_td_text (3), fetch_subject_list (3), get_cached_search_result (3), normalize_js_field_values (3), split_bilingual_subjects (3), build_basic_search_form (2), build_batch_detail_result (2), build_bilingual_lookup_result_key (2), build_detailed_search_grid (2), build_search_cache_key (2), build_year_range_cache_key (2), cache_enabled (2), calculate_split_points (2), calculate_target_chunk_size (2), clean_advisor_name (2), collect_expanded_search_results (2), compose_detail_id (2), default_era_weights (2), derive_keyword_fields_from_html (2), detail (2), detail_horizontal_rows (2), detail_pdf_link (2), detail_rate_limit_enabled (2), execute_basic_search (2), execute_search_pipeline_request (2), extract_detail_field (2), extract_js_doc_blocks (2), extract_modern_reference_data (2), extract_modern_thesis_no (2), extract_stat_pages (2), extract_stat_year (2), extract_total_count (2), extract_vertical_detail_language (2), extract_vertical_detail_pages (2), extract_vertical_detail_thesis_type (2), fetch_search_results_page (2), fetch_single_thesis (2), fetch_stats_table (2), fetch_year_range_iterative (2), fetch_year_range_result (2), format_overflow_years (2), generic_lookup_id (2), get_bilingual_lookup_metadata (2), get_bilingual_lookup_result_cache (2), get_cached_year_range (2), horizontal_detail_blocks (2), horizontal_detail_columns (2), infer_abstract_language (2), initial_year_ranges (2), initialize_density_state (2), is_non_default_all_filter (2), language_iso_codes (2), match_bilingual_lookup_result (2), new_advanced_search_state (2), new_detailed_search_state (2), normalize_advanced_search_args (2), normalize_basic_search_args (2), normalize_detailed_search_args (2), normalize_modern_subject (2), normalize_search_result_limit (2), normalize_stats_headers (2), normalize_stats_rows (2), parse_bilingual_entries (2), perform_search_request (2), request_user_agent (2), split_advisors (2), split_detail_id (2), year_density_weight (2), abort_invalid_status (1), abort_invalid_values (1), abort_on_search_results_error (1), abort_on_search_submit_error (1), abort_on_stats_fetch_error (1), access_type_values (1), advanced_cache_key_params (1), advanced_form_builder (1), advanced_prepare_request (1), advanced_search_cache_key (1), advanced_search_fields (1), annotate_search_results (1), any_non_null_arg (1), basic_search_cache_key (1), basic_search_fields (1), build_advanced_search_form (1), build_bilingual_lookup_metadata (1), build_detailed_search_form (1), build_js_doc_record (1), build_ranges_from_split (1), build_results_tibble (1), build_vertical_detail_fields (1), cache_clear (1), cache_config (1), cache_info (1), cached_bilingual_lookup_matches (1), can_use_cached_search (1), clean_stats_rows (1), clear_bilingual_lookup_result_cache (1), coerce_stats_rows (1), complete_turkish_abstract (1), complete_year_range_result (1), current_request_config (1), default_request_headers (1), delegate_basic_search (1), derive_abstract_fields (1), derive_keyword_fields (1), detailed_cache_key_params (1), detailed_form_builder (1), detailed_institution_args (1), detailed_multi_value_args (1), detailed_prepare_request (1), detailed_search_cache_key (1), detailed_search_criteria (1), detailed_text_args (1), effective_era_weights (1), english_original_candidate (1), ensure_search_session (1), expand_and_search_detailed (1), expand_detailed_search (1), expand_param (1), extract_bilingual_lookup (1), fetch_batch_details (1), fetch_by_year_ranges (1), fetch_discipline_list (1), fetch_division_list (1), fetch_institute_list (1), fetch_uncached_parallel (1), fetch_university_list (1), finalize_basic_search_results (1), finalize_batch_detail_result (1), finalize_expanded_search_results (1), finish_search_pipeline_results (1), generic_fetch_list (1), group_values (1), has_detailed_filter_criteria (1), has_detailed_search_criteria (1), has_detailed_year_criteria (1), has_horizontal_detail_rows (1), has_multi_value_detailed_args (1), has_session (1), increment_request_count (1), init_cache (1), init_session (1), is_error (1), list_disciplines (1), list_divisions (1), list_institutes (1), list_lookup_values (1), list_subjects (1), list_universities (1), looks_english_text (1), looks_turkish_text (1), lookup_discipline_id (1), lookup_division_id (1), lookup_institute_id (1), lookup_subject_id (1), lookup_university_id (1), match_language_label_id (1), matches_original_language (1), na_to_null (1), needs_year_range_pagination (1), needs_year_range_resplit (1), normalize_basic_cache_entry (1), normalize_year_range_result (1), original_language_candidate (1), overlap_years_by_era (1), paginate_pipeline_results (1), parse_and_cache_detail_response (1), parse_detail_page (1), parse_detail_response (1), parse_horizontal_metadata_fields (1), parse_js_doc (1), parse_js_doc_fields (1), parse_js_doc_identity (1), parse_js_doc_language (1), parse_js_doc_subject (1), parse_js_doc_title (1), parse_location_info (1), parse_modern_card_title (1), parse_modern_result_card (1), parse_modern_result_cards (1), parse_modern_university (1), parse_results_table (1), perform_parallel (1), prepare_batch_detail_ids (1), process_year_range_iteration (1), request_year_range_result (1), resolve_auto_year_range (1), resolve_cached_search_pipeline_result (1), resolve_language_id (1), resolve_search_pipeline_pagination (1), run_basic_search (1), run_search_request (1), search_detailed_grid_row (1), select_original_abstract (1), select_translation_abstract (1), select_turkish_abstract (1), split_cached_uncached (1), split_overflowing_year_range (1), split_titles (1), status_values (1), tezr_verbose (1), update_density_state (1), validate_detailed_ids (1), validate_search_year_range (1), warn_year_range_incomplete (1)

graphics

text (30), title (8)

stringr

str_match (8), str_split (7), str_to_lower (6), regex (5), str_match_all (3), fixed (2), str_extract (2), str_remove_all (2), str_detect (1), str_extract_all (1), str_to_upper (1)

rvest

html_element (12), html_attr (5), html_text (5), html_elements (3), html_table (1), html_text2 (1)

httr2

resp_body_html (4), resp_status (4), req_retry (3), req_options (2), req_perform (2), req_url_query (2), request (2), req_error (1), req_headers (1), resp_header (1)

stats

start (5), end (3), setNames (3), weights (3), ar (1), pt (1)

dplyr

bind_rows (3), rename (3), distinct (2), mutate (2), filter (1)

utils

de (1), timestamp (1), URLencode (1)

cli

cli_progress_bar (2)

stringi

stri_trans_tolower (2)

Matrix

collapse (1)

methods

el (1)

tibble

tibble (1)

NOTE: Some imported packages appear to have no associated function calls; please ensure with author that these 'Imports' are listed appropriately.

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2. Statistical Properties

This package features some noteworthy statistical properties which may need to be clarified by a handling editor prior to progressing.

Details of statistical properties (click to open)

The package has:

• code in R (100% in 16 files) and
• 1 authors
• 2 vignettes
• no internal data file
• 10 imported packages
• 17 exported functions (median 7 lines of code)
• 281 non-exported functions in R (median 9 lines of code)

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Statistical properties of package structure as distributional percentiles in relation to all current CRAN packages
The following terminology is used:

• loc = "Lines of Code"
• fn = "function"
• exp/not_exp = exported / not exported

All parameters are explained as tooltips in the locally-rendered HTML version of this report generated by the checks_to_markdown() function

The final measure (fn_call_network_size) is the total number of calls between functions (in R), or more abstract relationships between code objects in other languages. Values are flagged as "noteworthy" when they lie in the upper or lower 5th percentile.

measure	value	percentile	noteworthy
files_R	16	82.5
files_vignettes	3	93.8
files_tests	14	95.6
loc_R	4785	96.7	TRUE
loc_vignettes	526	78.6
loc_tests	4727	97.8	TRUE
num_vignettes	2	89.6
n_fns_r	298	98.3	TRUE
n_fns_r_exported	17	76.0
n_fns_r_not_exported	281	99.2	TRUE
n_fns_per_file_r	21	98.0	TRUE
num_params_per_fn	3	59.1
loc_per_fn_r	9	56.0
loc_per_fn_r_exp	7	48.4
loc_per_fn_r_not_exp	9	73.3
doclines_per_fn_exp	18	46.1
doclines_per_fn_not_exp	1	77.9
fn_call_network_size	618	96.5	TRUE

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2a. Network visualisation

Click to see the interactive network visualisation of calls between objects in package

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3. goodpractice and other checks

Details of goodpractice checks (click to open)

3a. Continuous Integration Badges

GitHub Workflow Results

id	name	conclusion	sha	run_number	date
27035312156	pkgcheck	success	127e8f	1	2026-06-05
27035312125	pkgdown	success	127e8f	3	2026-06-05
27035312122	R-CMD-check	success	127e8f	3	2026-06-05
27035312121	test-coverage	success	127e8f	3	2026-06-05

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3b. goodpractice results

Test coverage with covr

Package coverage: 100

Cyclocomplexity with cyclocomp

No functions have cyclocomplexity >= 15

Static code analyses with lintr

lintr found the following 3 potential issues:

message	number of times
Avoid undesirable function "library".	3

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4. Other Checks

Details of other checks (click to open)

✖️ The following 4 function names are duplicated in other packages:

• • cache_clear from cbsodataR, styler, rsurvstat, lares, sprtt, explodemap
• • cache_info from dataverse, textdata, styler, httr, golfastr, rerddap, rPDBapi, pins, openesm, sprtt, epidatr, taxodist
• • detail from OneTwoSamples, PwrGSD, pwrFDR, robustfa, mark, qkiosk
• • list_institutes from genesysr

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Package Versions

package	version
pkgstats	0.2.3.1
pkgcheck	0.1.2.310

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Editor-in-Chief Instructions:

This package is in top shape and may be passed on to a handling editor.

This package has some noteworthy properties, see 'Package Statistics' details above.

[maurolepore]

Thanks @emraher for sharing your work with rOpenSci.

I'll explore scope ASAP.

For greater visibility I'll re-post the git log which helps us visualize/understand design choices.

* 127e8f7 - (HEAD -> main, origin/main, origin/HEAD) chore: exclude local build artifacts (28 hours ago) <Emrah Er>
* c653d99 - chore: prepare tezr for ropensci submission (29 hours ago) <Emrah Er>
* bbf05bd - fix: adapt tezr to redesigned YOK thesis search (4 weeks ago) <Emrah Er>
* e946ec6 - chore: publish initial public package (6 weeks ago) <Emrah Er>

Also I'll paste selected statistical properties from the checks above. Recently package size has been increasing and we're still figuring out how to handle that load. Until we refine that process, large submission are likely to experience delays.

From a quick look at the package-website Reference the package doesn't seem large, but the checks show 4785 lines of code in R/. I wonder if there is any architectural decision of deduplication that could reduce the size/complexity while preserving the most important features?

Also from a quick look at the package website I see no output in any example. The output helps readers quickly see what the package does without having to install the package or run code. This is definitely something we'll need to do before review anyway, so if you can do it now-ish then great!!

[emraher]

Thanks for the quick look. I made some commits to address the points you mentioned.

• For the documentation, I added visible output to the README, vignettes, and reference examples.
• The README Quick Start now shows the shape of search and detail results.
• The pkgdown articles also show representative output, so readers can see what the package returns without installing it or querying the live NTC portal.

For package size and complexity, I made a conservative internal cleanup where the duplication was clearest. R/search.R now reuses helpers for search argument construction and cache-key inputs. R/parse-details.R now shares more of the detail-table text extraction path. I kept this deliberately narrow so the public API and current feature set remain unchanged.

I also refreshed the website and fixed a few documentation details like wording.

I also hardened the GitHub Actions setup after a few transient download failures in external setup steps. These failures occurred before package checks ran, first while downloading Pandoc and later while Windows setup-r tried to download Ghostscript. The workflow now uses fallback Pandoc installation paths and the preinstalled runner R on Windows. The relevant CI commits are 6e69796 and f499a55.

Relevant commits are:

• e19eefd adds example output and the scoped internal deduplication.
• 5ca1208 streamlines the README Quick Start.
• fc81217 fixes the YÖK disclaimer wording.
• 6e69796 hardens Pandoc setup in GitHub Actions.
• f499a55 avoids a Windows Ghostscript download failure in R-CMD-check.

The package website has rebuilt. The current R-CMD-check, pkgdown, and pkgcheck workflows are passing.

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Checks for tezr (v0.1.0.9000)

git hash: f499a55f

• ✔️ Package name is available
• ✔️ has a 'contributing' file.
• ✔️ uses 'roxygen2'.
• ✔️ 'DESCRIPTION' has a URL field.
• ✔️ 'DESCRIPTION' has a BugReports field.
• ✔️ Package has at least one HTML vignette
• ✔️ All functions have examples.
• ✔️ Repository has a website
• ✔️ Package has continuous integration checks.
• ✔️ Package coverage is 99.9%.
• ✔️ R CMD check found no errors.
• ✔️ R CMD check found no warnings.
• 👀 Some goodpractice linters failed.
• 👀 Function names are duplicated in other packages

(Checks marked with 👀 may be optionally addressed.)

Package License: MIT + file LICENSE

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1. Package Dependencies

Details of Package Dependency Usage (click to open)

The table below tallies all function calls to all packages ('ncalls'), both internal (r-base + recommended, along with the package itself), and external (imported and suggested packages). 'NA' values indicate packages to which no identified calls to R functions could be found. Note that these results are generated by an automated code-tagging system which may not be entirely accurate.

type	package	ncalls
internal	base	589
internal	tezr	477
internal	graphics	38
internal	stats	16
internal	utils	3
internal	methods	1
imports	stringr	38
imports	rvest	27
imports	httr2	22
imports	dplyr	11
imports	stringi	2
imports	cli	2
imports	tibble	1
imports	tidyr	NA
imports	purrr	NA
imports	rlang	NA
suggests	testthat	NA
suggests	withr	NA
suggests	knitr	NA
suggests	rmarkdown	NA
suggests	ggplot2	NA
suggests	readr	NA
linking_to	NA	NA

Click below for tallies of functions used in each package. Locations of each call within this package may be generated locally by running 's <- pkgstats::pkgstats(<path/to/repo>)', and examining the 'external_calls' table.

base

list (157), return (87), c (28), length (27), character (26), if (24), args (22), is.na (13), paste0 (12), for (11), as.integer (10), nrow (8), is.null (7), match (7), suppressWarnings (7), emptyenv (6), new.env (6), all (5), names (5), sum (5), vector (5), integer (4), lapply (4), min (4), nchar (4), seq_along (4), seq_len (4), seq.int (4), as.character (3), attr (3), do.call (3), identical (3), rep (3), strsplit (3), Sys.time (3), tolower (3), which (3), as.numeric (2), difftime (2), getOption (2), identity (2), is.infinite (2), labels (2), regexpr (2), sprintf (2), substr (2), Sys.getenv (2), units (2), any (1), by (1), ceiling (1), cumsum (1), drop (1), duplicated (1), expand.grid (1), Filter (1), format (1), get (1), grepl (1), gsub (1), isTRUE (1), ls (1), max (1), mean (1), Negate (1), open (1), paste (1), range (1), round (1), rowSums (1), search (1), setdiff (1), split (1), sqrt (1), startsWith (1), Sys.Date (1), toString (1), transform (1), trimws (1), tryCatch (1), vapply (1), version (1)

tezr

clean_text (24), coalesce_missing (20), form_int (16), form_text (13), result_record_column (13), extract_first_detail_field (12), get_doc_field (9), empty_results_tibble (7), create_session (5), horizontal_detail_cell (5), merge_keywords (5), split_abstract_block (5), coerce_search_fields (4), detail_cell_text (4), extract_labeled_value (4), extract_stat_thesis_type (4), fetch_and_parse_stats (4), get_cached (4), make_detail_key (4), make_search_key (4), normalize_language_label (4), validate_optional_id (4), build_detail_request (3), coalesce_text (3), collapse_subjects (3), derive_abstract_fields_from_td_text (3), extract_access_status (3), extract_keywords_from_index (3), extract_stat_language (3), extract_td_text (3), fetch_subject_list (3), get_cached_search_result (3), normalize_js_field_values (3), split_bilingual_subjects (3), build_basic_search_form (2), build_batch_detail_result (2), build_bilingual_lookup_result_key (2), build_detailed_search_grid (2), build_search_cache_key (2), build_year_range_cache_key (2), cache_enabled (2), calculate_split_points (2), calculate_target_chunk_size (2), clean_advisor_name (2), collect_expanded_search_results (2), compose_detail_id (2), default_era_weights (2), derive_keyword_fields_from_td_text (2), detail (2), detail_horizontal_rows (2), detail_pdf_link (2), detail_rate_limit_enabled (2), execute_basic_search (2), execute_search_pipeline_request (2), extract_detail_field (2), extract_js_doc_blocks (2), extract_modern_reference_data (2), extract_modern_thesis_no (2), extract_stat_pages (2), extract_stat_year (2), extract_total_count (2), extract_vertical_detail_language (2), extract_vertical_detail_pages (2), extract_vertical_detail_thesis_type (2), fetch_search_results_page (2), fetch_single_thesis (2), fetch_stats_table (2), fetch_year_range_iterative (2), fetch_year_range_result (2), format_overflow_years (2), generic_lookup_id (2), get_bilingual_lookup_metadata (2), get_bilingual_lookup_result_cache (2), get_cached_year_range (2), horizontal_detail_blocks (2), horizontal_detail_columns (2), infer_abstract_language (2), initial_year_ranges (2), initialize_density_state (2), is_non_default_all_filter (2), language_iso_codes (2), match_bilingual_lookup_result (2), new_advanced_search_state (2), new_detailed_search_state (2), normalize_advanced_search_args (2), normalize_basic_search_args (2), normalize_detailed_search_args (2), normalize_modern_subject (2), normalize_search_result_limit (2), normalize_stats_headers (2), normalize_stats_rows (2), parse_bilingual_entries (2), perform_search_request (2), request_user_agent (2), split_advisors (2), split_detail_id (2), year_density_weight (2), abort_invalid_status (1), abort_invalid_values (1), abort_on_search_results_error (1), abort_on_search_submit_error (1), abort_on_stats_fetch_error (1), access_type_values (1), advanced_cache_key_args (1), advanced_cache_key_params (1), advanced_form_builder (1), advanced_prepare_request (1), advanced_search_cache_key (1), advanced_search_fields (1), annotate_search_results (1), any_non_null_arg (1), basic_search_cache_key (1), basic_search_fields (1), build_advanced_search_form (1), build_bilingual_lookup_metadata (1), build_detailed_search_form (1), build_js_doc_record (1), build_ranges_from_split (1), build_results_tibble (1), build_vertical_detail_fields (1), cache_clear (1), cache_config (1), cache_info (1), cached_bilingual_lookup_matches (1), can_use_cached_search (1), clean_stats_rows (1), clear_bilingual_lookup_result_cache (1), coerce_stats_rows (1), complete_turkish_abstract (1), complete_year_range_result (1), current_request_config (1), default_request_headers (1), delegate_basic_search (1), derive_abstract_fields (1), derive_abstract_fields_from_html (1), derive_keyword_fields (1), derive_keyword_fields_from_html (1), detailed_cache_key_args (1), detailed_cache_key_params (1), detailed_form_builder (1), detailed_institution_args (1), detailed_multi_value_args (1), detailed_prepare_request (1), detailed_search_cache_key (1), detailed_search_criteria (1), detailed_text_args (1), effective_era_weights (1), english_original_candidate (1), ensure_search_session (1), expand_and_search_detailed (1), expand_detailed_search (1), expand_param (1), extract_bilingual_lookup (1), extract_keywords (1), fetch_batch_details (1), fetch_by_year_ranges (1), fetch_discipline_list (1), fetch_division_list (1), fetch_institute_list (1), fetch_uncached_parallel (1), fetch_university_list (1), finalize_basic_search_results (1), finalize_batch_detail_result (1), finalize_expanded_search_results (1), finish_search_pipeline_results (1), generic_fetch_list (1), group_values (1), has_detailed_filter_criteria (1), has_detailed_search_criteria (1), has_detailed_year_criteria (1), has_horizontal_detail_rows (1), has_multi_value_detailed_args (1), has_session (1), increment_request_count (1), init_cache (1), init_session (1), is_error (1), list_disciplines (1), list_divisions (1), list_institutes (1), list_lookup_values (1), list_subjects (1), list_universities (1), looks_english_text (1), looks_turkish_text (1), lookup_discipline_id (1), lookup_division_id (1), lookup_institute_id (1), lookup_subject_id (1), lookup_university_id (1), match_language_label_id (1), matches_original_language (1), na_to_null (1), needs_year_range_pagination (1), needs_year_range_resplit (1), normalize_basic_cache_entry (1), normalize_year_range_result (1), overlap_years_by_era (1), paginate_pipeline_results (1), parse_and_cache_detail_response (1), parse_detail_page (1), parse_detail_response (1), parse_horizontal_metadata_fields (1), parse_js_doc (1), parse_js_doc_fields (1), parse_js_doc_identity (1), parse_js_doc_language (1), parse_js_doc_subject (1), parse_js_doc_title (1), parse_location_info (1), parse_modern_card_title (1), parse_modern_result_card (1), parse_modern_result_cards (1), parse_modern_university (1), parse_results_table (1), perform_parallel (1), prepare_batch_detail_ids (1), process_year_range_iteration (1), request_year_range_result (1), resolve_auto_year_range (1), resolve_cached_search_pipeline_result (1), resolve_language_id (1), resolve_search_pipeline_pagination (1), run_basic_search (1), run_search_request (1), search_detailed_grid_row (1), select_original_abstract (1), select_translation_abstract (1), select_turkish_abstract (1), split_cached_uncached (1), split_overflowing_year_range (1), split_titles (1), status_values (1), tezr_verbose (1), update_density_state (1), validate_detailed_ids (1), validate_search_year_range (1), warn_year_range_incomplete (1)

graphics

text (31), title (7)

stringr

str_match (8), str_split (7), str_to_lower (6), regex (5), str_match_all (3), fixed (2), str_extract (2), str_remove_all (2), str_detect (1), str_extract_all (1), str_to_upper (1)

rvest

html_element (12), html_attr (5), html_text (5), html_elements (3), html_table (1), html_text2 (1)

httr2

resp_body_html (4), resp_status (4), req_retry (3), req_options (2), req_perform (2), req_url_query (2), request (2), req_error (1), req_headers (1), resp_header (1)

stats

start (5), end (3), setNames (3), weights (3), ar (1), pt (1)

dplyr

bind_rows (3), rename (3), distinct (2), mutate (2), filter (1)

utils

de (1), timestamp (1), URLencode (1)

cli

cli_progress_bar (2)

stringi

stri_trans_tolower (2)

methods

el (1)

tibble

tibble (1)

NOTE: Some imported packages appear to have no associated function calls; please ensure with author that these 'Imports' are listed appropriately.

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2. Statistical Properties

This package features some noteworthy statistical properties which may need to be clarified by a handling editor prior to progressing.

Details of statistical properties (click to open)

The package has:

• code in R (100% in 16 files) and
• 1 authors
• 2 vignettes
• no internal data file
• 10 imported packages
• 17 exported functions (median 7 lines of code)
• 286 non-exported functions in R (median 9 lines of code)

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Statistical properties of package structure as distributional percentiles in relation to all current CRAN packages
The following terminology is used:

• loc = "Lines of Code"
• fn = "function"
• exp/not_exp = exported / not exported

All parameters are explained as tooltips in the locally-rendered HTML version of this report generated by the checks_to_markdown() function

The final measure (fn_call_network_size) is the total number of calls between functions (in R), or more abstract relationships between code objects in other languages. Values are flagged as "noteworthy" when they lie in the upper or lower 5th percentile.

measure	value	percentile	noteworthy
files_R	16	82.5
files_vignettes	4	95.9
files_tests	14	95.6
loc_R	4810	96.7	TRUE
loc_vignettes	920	89.6
loc_tests	4727	97.8	TRUE
num_vignettes	2	89.6
n_fns_r	303	98.3	TRUE
n_fns_r_exported	17	76.0
n_fns_r_not_exported	286	99.2	TRUE
n_fns_per_file_r	22	98.0	TRUE
num_params_per_fn	3	59.1
loc_per_fn_r	9	56.0
loc_per_fn_r_exp	7	48.4
loc_per_fn_r_not_exp	9	73.3
doclines_per_fn_exp	23	50.4
doclines_per_fn_not_exp	1	77.9
fn_call_network_size	626	96.5	TRUE

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2a. Network visualisation

Click to see the interactive network visualisation of calls between objects in package

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3. goodpractice and other checks

Details of goodpractice checks (click to open)

3a. Continuous Integration Badges

GitHub Workflow Results

id	name	conclusion	sha	run_number	date
27123968553	pkgcheck	success	f499a5	9	2026-06-08
27123968594	pkgdown	success	f499a5	11	2026-06-08
27123968546	R-CMD-check	success	f499a5	11	2026-06-08
27123968554	test-coverage	success	f499a5	11	2026-06-08

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3b. goodpractice results

Test coverage with covr

Package coverage: 99.91

Cyclocomplexity with cyclocomp

No functions have cyclocomplexity >= 15

Static code analyses with lintr

lintr found the following 6 potential issues:

message	number of times
Avoid undesirable function "library".	3
Lines should not be more than 80 characters.	2
Prefer grepv(pattern, x, ...) over x[grep(pattern, x, ...)] and x[grepl(pattern, x, ...)].	1

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4. Other Checks

Details of other checks (click to open)

✖️ The following 4 function names are duplicated in other packages:

• • cache_clear from cbsodataR, styler, rsurvstat, lares, sprtt, explodemap
• • cache_info from dataverse, textdata, styler, httr, golfastr, rerddap, rPDBapi, pins, openesm, sprtt, epidatr, taxodist
• • detail from OneTwoSamples, PwrGSD, pwrFDR, robustfa, mark, qkiosk
• • list_institutes from genesysr

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Package Versions

package	version
pkgstats	0.2.3.1
pkgcheck	0.1.2.310

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Editor-in-Chief Instructions:

This package is in top shape and may be passed on to a handling editor.

This package has some noteworthy properties, see 'Package Statistics' details above.

[maurolepore]

@emraher

Thanks so much for your quick response, and for sharing the granular history of your latest changes. This definitely helps - we plan to refine this need in an upcoming blog post but the general idea is to have a record of the author's architectural decisions. Focusing your attention on that high level of the package structure is important at this stage, since it could lead to quite dramatic changes in size or shape with significant impact on the review process.

Along these lines, a discussion with the editorial board resolved that "in order to proceed, we ought to require an additional document within the repo itself explain the design history and design decisions behind the current architecture".

This is a lil experimental so we really appreciate your contribution towards helping us improve our process to handle the new wave of larger-than-usual submissions.

[emraher]

Thanks @maurolepore. I added a repository-level design history and architecture note in emraher/tezr@d665156.

The new document is here:

https://github.com/emraher/tezr/blob/main/DESIGN.md

It explains the package history, the paper-driven data retrieval need that led to tezr, the main architectural decisions behind the current structure, and why the internal function graph is larger than the exported API. It also documents the boundaries between retrieval and downstream analysis, plus the tradeoffs around portal-form mapping, pagination, caching, parsing, request behavior, and maintenance.

I hope this addresses the design-history and architecture context the editorial board asked for.

[maurolepore]

Thanks @emraher for following up promptly. We find the documents helpful.

I'll start the search for a handling editor.

[maurolepore]

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