R Observatory: Metrics for USpopcenters version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

USpopcenters

0.2.0Package record

United States Centers of Population (Centroids)

0packages dependsuggested by 1

7.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Nik KriegerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Centers of population (centroid) data for census areas in the United States.

Changes in 0.2.0

Added 2020 census centroids!

Minor corrections to documentation.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("USpopcenters", 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("NikKrieger/USpopcenters")

Development version from NikKrieger/USpopcenters. 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-uspopcenters

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-USpopcenters

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-USpopcenters

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: 1.8 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 OK2026-07-16

Show 3 earlier changesHide 3 earlier changes

WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-07-15
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 258 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 13
Examples that run: 100%13 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: not tracked
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

7.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,788 · ~21/day · ~630/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

40130 days

1.1K90 days

7.6K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

nikkrieger/uspopcenters ↗Account: NikKrieger

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

9Commits

1Commit identities

9 commits · Last activity 2023-04-24

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2023-05-02 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/nikkrieger/uspopcenters on 2026-10-18.

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing USpopcenters adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

tibble

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

sociome

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Nik Krieger

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2021)

Releases (3)

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Package metadata

First published: 2021-09-20
Total releases: 3 / 5 yrs
License: CC0
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 6.9 MB / 16 files
Download size: 6.9 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("USpopcenters")

Format

Krieger, N. (2023). USpopcenters: United States Centers of Population (Centroids) (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.USpopcenters

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 USpopcenters version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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