R Observatory: Metrics for BLSloadR version 0.4.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

BLSloadR

0.4.6

Download Time Series Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

0packages depend

4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by David SchmidtFirst published 2025-11-254 releasesCRAN page ↗

These functions provide a convenient interface for downloading data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics https://www.bls.gov. The functions in this package utilize flat files produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which contain full series history. These files include employment, unemployment, wages, prices, industry and occupational data at a national, state, and sub-state level, depending on the series. Individual functions are included for those programs which have data available at the state level. The core functions provide direct access to the Current Employment Statistics (CES) https://www.bls.gov/ces/, Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) https://www.bls.gov/lau/, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) https://www.bls.gov/oes/ and Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization (SALT) https://www.bls.gov/lau/stalt.htm data produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Install

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

install.packages("BLSloadR", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-blsloadr

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-BLSloadR

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-BLSloadR

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

13

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 981 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 40%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 96%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,636 · ~11/day · ~330/mo

Releases R versions

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61430 days

1.7K90 days

4K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ schmidtdetr/blsloadr

4Stars

3Forks

13Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

170Commits

3Contributors

170 commits · Last activity 2026-08-11 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-06 · 12026-07-07 · 4

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/schmidtdetr/blsloadr on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (13)

data.table httr dplyr stringr lubridate rvest readxl (>= 1.4.5)sf tidyselect tigris zoo htmltools rstudioapi

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

ggplot2 knitr mapgl rmarkdown tidyr gt

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

David Schmidt

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

David Schmidt

Author, Maintainer

Mark Rembert

Author · added in 0.4

Copyright holders (1)

Nevada Department of Employment, Training, and Rehabilitation

Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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

0.4.6Latest
2026-06-17 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.5
2026-04-23 · diff ↗
0.4
2026-02-14 · diff ↗
0.2
2025-11-25
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-11-25
Total releases: 4 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 70 KB / 2 files
Download size: 151 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Time Series Analysis

Cite

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Format

Schmidt, D., Nevada Department of Employment, Training, and Rehabilitation, & Rembert, M. (2026). BLSloadR: Download Time Series Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Version 0.4.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.BLSloadR

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for BLSloadR version 0.4.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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