R Observatory: Metrics for RCPA3 version 1.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RCPA3

1.3.1Package record

Data and Functions for R Companion to Political Analysis 3rd Ed

0packages depend

12.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Barry EdwardsCRAN page ↗

Bundles the datasets and functions featured in Philip H. Pollock and Barry C. Edwardshttps://edge.sagepub.com/pollock, "An R Companion to Political Analysis, 3rd Edition," Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Changes in 1.3.1

Changes:

Fixed transformC function to return numeric class variable with type "dummy" and "dummy.set"

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("RCPA3", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-rcpa3

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-RCPA3

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-RCPA3

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: 4.6 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

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-02
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.3.1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 1.3.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 47 (23 internal)
Examples that run: 100%40 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 95%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

12.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,330 · ~34/day · ~1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.2K30 days

3.4K90 days

12.3K1 year

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Also on85 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing RCPA3 adds 120 packages (64 with compiled code, 95 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (14)

beepr car descrgraphicsgrDeviceshaven Hmisc knitr lmtestmethodsstatssurveyutilsweights

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

hexbin rgl scatterplot3d gdata

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)

Barry Edwards

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.1 (2022)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Philip Pollock

no longer listed · 1.0.1 to 1.2.1

Releases (4)

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Package metadata

First published: 2022-01-10
Total releases: 4 / 4 yrs
License: CC0
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Bundled data: 1.3 MB / 5 files
Download size: 1.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("RCPA3")

Format

Edwards, B. (2024). RCPA3: Data and Functions for R Companion to Political Analysis 3rd Ed (Version 1.3.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RCPA3

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 RCPA3 version 1.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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