R Observatory: Metrics for OpenSourceAP.DownloadR version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

OpenSourceAP.DownloadR

0.1.0

Download Open Source Asset Pricing (OpenAP) Data Directly

0packages depend

1.6Kdownloads / year

12.7%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Tom ZimmermannFirst published 2026-01-171 releasesCRAN 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.

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

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Slowest check: 56 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.12

12.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

13

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 58 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 0%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

1.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,802 · ~4/day · ~129/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

16530 days

59890 days

1.6K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Tom Zimmermann

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Tom Zimmermann

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Justus Boeker

Contributor

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0Latest
2026-03-10 · 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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("OpenSourceAP.DownloadR")

Format

Zimmermann, T., & Boeker, J. (2026). OpenSourceAP.DownloadR: Download Open Source Asset Pricing (OpenAP) Data Directly (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.OpenSourceAP.DownloadR

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for OpenSourceAP.DownloadR version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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