R Observatory: Metrics for BLSloadR version 0.4.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

BLSloadR

0.4.6Package record

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

0packages depend

5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by David SchmidtCRAN page ↗Website ↗

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.

Changes in 0.4.6

Hotfix Updates

This patch updates BLSloadR to fix an issue with the get_bls_headers() function which referred to an argument that was removed.

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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: 3.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.6

READMEYes · 981 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.6Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 35 (4 internal)
Examples that run: 35%7 run in a plain check · 3 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 10 never run
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 96%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

Introduction to BLSloadR HTML
Using the BLSloadR File Cache HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,073 · ~14/day · ~413/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

48130 days

1.6K90 days

5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on138 r2u66 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

schmidtdetr/blsloadr ↗Account: schmidtDETR

4Stars

4Forks

13Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

170Commits

3Commit identities

170 commits · Last activity 2026-08-11 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.5.6, ahead of CRAN 0.4.6 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 90%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 13
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-06 · 12026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/schmidtdetr/blsloadr on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-11 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-08-11

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing BLSloadR adds 57 packages (36 with compiled code, 48 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

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.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

David Schmidt

Author, Maintainer since 0.2 (2025)

Mark Rembert

Author · added in 0.4

Nevada Department of Employment, Training, and Rehabilitation

Copyright holder

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.4.6Latest
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2026-06-16 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.5
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2026-04-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
read_bls_excel
0.4
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2026-02-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 9 exports
bls_get_cache_dir, get_oews_areas, get_qcew, list_ces_industries, list_ces_states, list_national_ces_options, show_ces_options, show_national_ces_options, smart_bls_download
0.2
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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

Appears in task views

Time Series Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("BLSloadR")

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

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 BLSloadR version 0.4.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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