R Observatory: Metrics for PolicyPortfolios version 0.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

PolicyPortfolios

0.5Package record

Tools for Managing, Measuring and Visualizing Policy Portfolios

0packages depend

2.9Kdownloads / year

1.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Xavier Fernández i MarínCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Tools for simplifying the creation and management of data structures suitable for dealing with policy portfolios, that is, two-dimensional spaces of policy instruments and policy targets. The package also allows to generate measures of portfolio characteristics and facilitates their visualization.

Changes in 0.5

MAJOR CHANGES

New dataset accupol.v1
Possibility to clean years in pp_similarity().

MINOR CHANGES

Improvement in the documentation
Improvement in the verbosity and information whes using pp_clean().

Version 0.4.

MAJOR CHANGES

New argument in pp-clean that allows to calculate setting and direction.

MINOR CHANGES

Solve a bug that does not produce burden when the matrix is missing.

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("PolicyPortfolios", 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("xfim/PolicyPortfolios")

Development version from xfim/PolicyPortfolios. 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-policyportfolios

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-PolicyPortfolios

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-PolicyPortfolios

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: 3.0 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
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5

READMEYes · 72 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Help pages: 19 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 80%12 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 42%

Vignettes (1)

Using the PolicyPortfolios package

How these are measured

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,717 · ~8/day · ~240/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30130 days

72590 days

2.9K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

xfim/policyportfolios ↗Account: xfim

4Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

74Commits

1Commit identities

74 commits · Last activity 2023-03-03 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (0.4) than CRAN on 2026-10-21

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-06-05 · 32026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/xfim/policyportfolios on 2026-10-21.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing PolicyPortfolios adds 33 packages (17 with compiled code, 31 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5dplyr

Imports (5)

ggplot2 vegan ineqmgcvreshape2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

testthat devtools rmarkdown knitr tidyr

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 (1)

Xavier Fernández i Marín

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.2 (2021)

Releases (3)

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Package metadata

First published: 2021-03-01
Total releases: 3 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 28 KB / 7 files
Download size: 343 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("PolicyPortfolios")

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

It points to 10.1111/j.1748-5991.2012.01150.x.

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 PolicyPortfolios version 0.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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