R Observatory: Metrics for ArgentinAPI version 0.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ArgentinAPI

0.2.1Package record

Access Argentinian Data via APIs and Curated Datasets

1packages depend

5.9Kdownloads / year

72.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Renzo Caceres RossiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides functions to access data from public RESTful APIs including the 'ArgentinaDatos API', 'REST Countries API', and 'World Bank API' related to Argentina's exchange rates, inflation, political figures, holidays, economic indicators, and general country-level statistics. Additionally, the package includes curated datasets related to Argentina, covering topics such as economic indicators, biodiversity, agriculture, human rights, genetic data, and consumer prices. The package supports research and analysis focused on Argentina by integrating open APIs with high-quality datasets from various domains. For more details on the APIs, see: 'ArgentinaDatos API' https://argentinadatos.com/, 'REST Countries API' https://restcountries.com/, and 'World Bank API' https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/889392.

Changes in 0.2.1

Bug Fixes

Fixed get_argentinian_holidays() to dynamically accept years up to the current year instead of being hardcoded to 2025, preventing validation errors in future years.
Improved error handling in get_argentinian_holidays() to fail gracefully with informative messages when the API is unavailable, as required by CRAN policy.
Improved error handling in get_argentine_senators() to fail gracefully with informative messages when the API is unavailable, as required by CRAN policy.
Fixed test for get_argentine_senators() to properly handle NA values in date fields when checking sort order.
Updated validation messages to use dynamic year limits based on current date.

Technical Changes

Added tryCatch() blocks to API calls in get_argentinian_holidays() and get_argentine_senators() to handle network errors gracefully.
Changed validation errors to warnings with NULL returns to comply with CRAN's requirement that packages using Internet resources must not generate check errors when resources are unavailable.

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From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ArgentinAPI", 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("lightbluetitan/argentinapi")

Development version from lightbluetitan/argentinapi. 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-argentinapi

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-ArgentinAPI

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-ArgentinAPI

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

Additional issues

donttest

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.1

READMEYes · 446 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.1Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 22includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 57%8 run in a plain check (8 of them under a condition) · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 5 never run
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 13%
Return-value docs: 67%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

ArgentinAPI: Access Argentinian Data via APIs and Curated Datasets HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

5.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,177 · ~16/day · ~492/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34630 days

1.1K90 days

5.9K1 year

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Also on195 r2u29 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

lightbluetitan/argentinapi ↗Account: lightbluetitan

3Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

4Commits

1Commit identities

4 commits · Last activity 2026-01-14 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-10-16 · 32026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/lightbluetitan/argentinapi on 2026-10-21.

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-01-14

pkgdown site last built 2026-01-14

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ArgentinAPI adds 30 packages (18 with compiled code, 12 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: farver 1.2 MB, viridisLite 1.2 MB, openssl 1.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (7)

utilshttr jsonlite dplyr lubridate scales tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

ggplot2 testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Depends 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Latamverse

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Renzo Caceres Rossi

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2025)

Releases (3)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.1Latest
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2026-01-14 · current release · diff ↗
0.2.0
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2025-09-14 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
get_country_info

added 8 exports
get_argentina_child_mortality, get_argentina_energy_use, get_argentina_gdp, get_argentina_hospital_beds, get_argentina_life_expectancy, get_argentina_population, get_argentina_unemployment, get_country_info_ar
0.1.0
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2025-07-08
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-07-08
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 333 KB / 7 files
Download size: 483 KB

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("ArgentinAPI")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ArgentinAPI version 0.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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