R Observatory: Metrics for OpenSourceAP.DownloadR version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

OpenSourceAP.DownloadR

0.1.0Package record

Download Open Source Asset Pricing (OpenAP) Data Directly

0packages depend

2Kdownloads / year

12.7%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tom ZimmermannCRAN page ↗

Convenient download functions enabling access Open Source Asset Pricing (OpenAP) data. This package enables users to download predictor portfolio returns (over 200 cross-sectional predictors with multiple portfolio construction methods) and firm characteristics (over 200 characteristics replicated from the academic asset pricing literature). Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP)-based variables such as Price, Size, and Short-term Reversal can be downloaded with a Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS, https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/) subscription. For a full list of what is available, see https://www.openassetpricing.com/.

Install

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

install.packages("OpenSourceAP.DownloadR", 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-opensourceap.downloadr

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-OpenSourceAP.DownloadR

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespaces in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘DBI’ ‘R6’ ‘RPostgres’ ‘getPass’ ‘lubridate’ ‘withr’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 53 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 58 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 1 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,689 · ~5/day · ~166/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

24030 days

62990 days

2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on49 r2u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing OpenSourceAP.DownloadR adds 39 packages (24 with compiled code, 29 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, RPostgres 1.4 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (13)

httr rvest stringr jsonlite magrittr dplyr data.table R6 withr lubridate DBI RPostgres getPass

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown 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 (2)

Tom Zimmermann

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2026)

Justus Boeker

Contributor

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0Latest
record
2026-01-17 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-17
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 77 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("OpenSourceAP.DownloadR")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

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 OpenSourceAP.DownloadR version 0.1.0 [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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