R Observatory: Metrics for RPublica version 0.1.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RPublica

0.1.3Package record

ProPublica API Client

0packages depend

2.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas J. LeeperCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Client for accessing data journalism APIs from ProPublica http://www.propublica.org/.

Install

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

install.packages("RPublica", 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("rOpenGov/RPublica")

Development version from rOpenGov/RPublica. 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-rpublica

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-RPublica

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-RPublica

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Thomas J. Leeper <thosjleeper@gmail.com>’

Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style personList() or
as.personList().  Please use c() on person objects instead.
Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry().  Please
use bibentry() instead.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 48 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.3

READMEYes · 326 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCitation fileYes · computed when R runs it

Help pages: 8includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%6 never run
Exported functions with examples: 86%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #21,448 · ~6/day · ~190/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

21930 days

61990 days

2.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on66 r2u2 autocran41 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropengov/rpublica ↗Organization: rOpenGov

28Stars

4Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

23Commits

2Commit identities

23 commits · Last activity 2023-01-12 · +3.7% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.1.3.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.1.3 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 910
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 6

Stars over time

2025-07-05 · 262026-10-14 · 28

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/ropengov/rpublica on 2026-10-22.

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 (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-17 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing RPublica adds 8 packages (6 with compiled code, 3.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

jsonlite httr curl

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 (2)

Thomas J. Leeper

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2014)

Jeroen Ooms

Contributor · added in 0.1.2

Releases (3)

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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
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.1.3Latest
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2015-12-22 · current release · diff ↗
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.1.2
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2014-12-20 · diff ↗
0.1.1
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2014-05-10
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-05-10
Total releases: 3 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 6.9 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("RPublica")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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 RPublica version 0.1.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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