R Observatory: Metrics for ABRSQOL version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ABRSQOL

1.0.0

Quality-of-Life Solver for "Measuring Quality of Life under Spatial Frictions"

0packages depend

6.5Kdownloads / year

74.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Max von MyliusCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

This toolkit implements a numerical solution algorithm to invert a quality of life measure from observed data. Unlike the traditional Rosen-Roback measure, this measure accounts for mobility frictions—generated by idiosyncratic tastes and local ties — and trade frictions — generated by trade costs and non-tradable services, thereby reducing non-classical measurement error. The QoL measure is based on Ahlfeldt, Bald, Roth, Seidel (2024) https://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:boc:bocode:s459382 "Measuring Quality of Life under Spatial Frictions". When using this programme or the toolkit in your work, please cite the paper.

Install

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

install.packages("ABRSQOL", 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("Ahlfeldt/ABRSQOL-toolkit")

Development version from Ahlfeldt/ABRSQOL-toolkit. 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-abrsqol

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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-ABRSQOL

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-ABRSQOL

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 50 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-13
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-12
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 50%

How these are measured

Downloads

6.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,677 · ~18/day · ~543/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

38330 days

99690 days

6.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on91 r2u25 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ahlfeldt/abrsqol-toolkit ↗Account: Ahlfeldt

5Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

339Commits

3Commit identities

License file reads as MIT · 339 commits · Last activity 2024-12-09 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-10-13 · 42026-09-05 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ahlfeldt/abrsqol-toolkit on 2026-10-11.

Git structural (1)

Submodules

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ABRSQOL adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Max von Mylius

Translator, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2024)

Humboldt University of Berlin

Gabriel M Ahlfeldt

Copyright holder, Author

Humboldt University of Berlin

Fabian Bald

Author

European University Viadrina

Duncan Roth

Author

Institute for Employment Research

Tobias Seidel

Author

University of Duisburg-Essen

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.0Latest
record
2024-11-06 · current release
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-11-06
Total releases: 1 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 6.8 KB / 1 file
Download size: 14 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ABRSQOL")

Format

von Mylius, M., Ahlfeldt, G. M., Bald, F., Roth, D., & Seidel, T. (2024). ABRSQOL: Quality-of-Life Solver for "Measuring Quality of Life under Spatial Frictions" (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ABRSQOL

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ABRSQOL version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-17, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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