R Observatory: Metrics for MaddisonData version 1.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MaddisonData

1.1.0

Maddison Project Data

0packages depend

3.8Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Spencer GravesFirst published 2025-11-242 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Relatively easy access is provided to 2023 version of the Maddison project data downloaded 2025-08-28. This project collates all the credible data on population and GDP for 169 countries, with some dating back to the year 1 of the current era. One function makes it easy to find the leaders for each year, allowing users to delete countries like OPEC with narrow economies to focus on technology leaders. Another function makes it easy to plot data for only selected countries or years. Another function makes it relatively easy to obtain references to the original sources, which must be cited per the copyright rules of the Maddison Project for different uses of their data.

Install

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

install.packages("MaddisonData", 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("sbgraves237/MaddisonData")

Development version from sbgraves237/MaddisonData. 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-maddisondata

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-MaddisonData

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-MaddisonData

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.1 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.30

0.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

0

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 · 260 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,420 · ~10/day · ~316/mo

Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ sbgraves237/maddisondata

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Last activity 2026-03-21

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/sbgraves237/maddisondata on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

ggplot2 ipumsr KFAS knitr lubridate readxl rmarkdown testthat tibble usethis

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Spencer Graves

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Spencer Graves

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1.0Latest
2026-01-10 · current release · diff ↗
1.0.2
2025-11-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-11-24
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Bundled data: 190 KB / 4 files
Download size: 1.1 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("MaddisonData")

Format

Graves, S. (2026). MaddisonData: Maddison Project Data (Version 1.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.MaddisonData

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 MaddisonData version 1.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-08-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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