R Observatory: Metrics for ProPublicaR version 1.1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ProPublicaR

1.1.4

Access Functions for ProPublica's APIs

0packages depend

2.4Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

0/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Aleksander DietrichsonFirst published 2019-04-065 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13NOTE

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
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NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64
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NOTE r-release-windows-x86_64

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

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.14

0.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
0 OK · 14 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 127 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 1%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 99%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,447 · ~7/day · ~200/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

16130 days

59090 days

2.4K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ dietrichson/propublicar

13Stars

4Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

87Commits

5Contributors

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

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/dietrichson/propublicar on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Aleksander Dietrichson

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Aleksander Dietrichson

Author, Maintainer

Joselina Davit

Author

Package Timeline

5 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ProPublicaR version 1.1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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