R Observatory: Metrics for PL94171 version 1.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

PL94171

1.2.1Package record

Tabulate P.L. 94-171 Redistricting Data Summary Files

2packages depend

7.3Kdownloads / year

59.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Cory McCartanCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Tools to process legacy format summary redistricting data files produced by the United States Census Bureau pursuant to P.L. 94-171. These files are generally available earlier but are difficult to work with as-is.

Changes in 1.2.1

Fix relative link in vignette

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("PL94171", 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("CoryMcCartan/PL94171")

Development version from CoryMcCartan/PL94171. 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-pl94171

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-PL94171

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-PL94171

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: 2.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-07

Show 2 earlier changesHide 2 earlier changes

ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-04
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.1

READMEYes · 136 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 13 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 27%3 run in a plain check · 7 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 91%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 91%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Reading Legacy Census Redistricting Data HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

7.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,354 · ~20/day · ~609/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

62430 days

1.6K90 days

7.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on112 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

corymccartan/pl94171 ↗Account: CoryMcCartan

8Stars

3Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

130Commits

3Commit identities

rcensus

130 commits · Last activity 2025-11-18 · The default branch showed an older version (1.2.0) than CRAN on 2026-10-25

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 83%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 21

Stars over time

2025-04-30 · 82026-07-07 · 8

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/corymccartan/pl94171 on 2026-10-25.

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 (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-11-18 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-11-18, before release 1.2.1 (2026-01-10)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing PL94171 adds 39 packages (24 with compiled code, 36 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (9)

cli curl stringr readr dplyr tinytiger sf withrforeign

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

testthat lifecycle knitr rmarkdown ggplot2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

wru redistverse

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Cory McCartan

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2021)

Christopher T. Kenny

Author

Releases (8)

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Package metadata

First published: 2021-06-15
Total releases: 8 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 28 KB / 1 file
Download size: 279 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("PL94171")

Format

McCartan, C., & Kenny, C. T. (2026). PL94171: Tabulate P.L. 94-171 Redistricting Data Summary Files (Version 1.2.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.PL94171

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for PL94171 version 1.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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