R Observatory: Metrics for ProPublicaR version 1.1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ProPublicaR

1.1.4Package record

Access Functions for ProPublica's APIs

0packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Aleksander DietrichsonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides wrapper functions to access the ProPublica's Congress and Campaign Finance APIs. The Congress API provides near real-time access to legislative data from the House of Representatives, the Senate and the Library of Congress. The Campaign Finance API provides data from United States Federal Election Commission filings and other sources. The API covers summary information for candidates and committees, as well as certain types of itemized data. For more information about these APIs go to: https://www.propublica.org/datastore/apis.

Install

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

install.packages("ProPublicaR", 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("dietrichson/ProPublicaR")

Development version from dietrichson/ProPublicaR. 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-propublicar

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-ProPublicaR

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-ProPublicaR

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTERd filesr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

checkRd: (-1) compare_two_member_bill_sponsorships.Rd:33: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    33 | To compare bill sponsorship between two members who served in the same Congress and chamber. HTTP Request: GET https://api.propublica.org/congress/v1/members/{first-member-id}/bills/{second-member-id}/{congress}/{chamber}.json
       |                                                                                                                                                               ^
checkRd: (-1) compare_two_member_bill_sponsorships.Rd:33: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    33 | To compare bill sponsorship between two members who served in the same Congress and chamber. HTTP Request: GET https://api.propublica.org/congress/v1/members/{first-member-id}/bills/{second-member-id}/{congress}/{chamber}.json
       |                                                                                                                                                           
...[truncated]...
                                                                             ^
checkRd: (-1) recent_bills_by_member.Rd:23: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    23 | Results can include more than one Congress. HTTP Request: GET https://api.propublica.org/congress/v1/members/{member-id}/bills/{type}.json
       |                                                                                                                                ^
checkRd: (-1) recent_bills_by_subject.Rd:20: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    20 | Use this request type to get the 20 most recently updated bills for a specific legislative subject. Results can include more than one Congress. HTTP Request: GET https://api.propublica.org/congress/v1/bills/subjects/{subject}.json
       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                         ^

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTE2026-09-08
ERROR12 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.4

READMEYes · 127 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · does not mention 1.1.4Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 100
Examples that run: 1%1 run in a plain check · 97 never run
Exported functions with examples: 99%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 99%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,309 · ~7/day · ~207/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

25830 days

67890 days

2.5K1 year

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Also on66 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

dietrichson/propublicar ↗Account: dietrichson

13Stars

4Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

87Commits

5Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-2.0 · 87 commits · Last activity 2023-09-06 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 82%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-11-19 · 122026-07-07 · 13

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/dietrichson/propublicar on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ProPublicaR adds 29 packages (19 with compiled code, 20 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1

Imports (5)

dplyr stringr httr config lubridate

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat httptest knitr

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)

Aleksander Dietrichson

Author, Maintainer since 0.9.2 (2019)

Joselina Davit

Author

Releases (5)

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-04-06
Total releases: 5 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 | file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1
Bundled data: 2.4 KB / 1 file
Download size: 65 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ProPublicaR")

Format

Dietrichson, A., & Davit, J. (2023). ProPublicaR: Access Functions for ProPublica's APIs (Version 1.1.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ProPublicaR

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

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 ProPublicaR version 1.1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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