R Observatory: Metrics for PolarCAP version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

PolarCAP

1.0.1Package record

Access the Polarization in Comparative Attitudes Project

0packages depend

2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Isaac MehlhaffCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Distributes data from the Polarization in Comparative Attitudes Project. Helper functions enable data retrieval in wide and tidy formats for user-defined countries and years. Provides support for case-insensitive country names in many languages. Mehlhaff (2022) https://imehlhaff.net/files/Polarization%20and%20Democracy.pdf.

Changes in 1.0.1

Initial CRAN submission.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("PolarCAP", 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("imehlhaff/PolarCAP")

Development version from imehlhaff/PolarCAP. 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-polarcap

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-PolarCAP

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-PolarCAP

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: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-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 OK2026-06-09

Show 2 earlier changesHide 2 earlier changes

ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.1

READMEYes · 263 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.0.1Citation fileYes · cites a publication

Help pages: 3
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #23,307 · ~6/day · ~169/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

21030 days

56190 days

2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on68 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

imehlhaff/polarcap ↗Account: imehlhaff

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

License file reads as CC0-1.0 · Last activity 2026-09-19 · Default branch at 1.1.2, ahead of CRAN 1.0.1 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/imehlhaff/polarcap on 2026-10-21.

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 2025-06-19 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-09-19
Commits: 1 by its own account

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing PolarCAP adds 21 packages (12 with compiled code, 18 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, dplyr 902 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (2)

tidyr countrycode

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Isaac Mehlhaff

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.1Latest
record
2023-07-10 · current release
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-07-10
Total releases: 1 / 3 yrs
License: CC0
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 112 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("PolarCAP")

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 PolarCAP version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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