R Observatory: Metrics for acro version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

acro

1.0.0Package record

A Tool for Semi-Automating the Statistical Disclosure Control of Research Outputs

0packages depend

4.5Kdownloads / year

18.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jim SmithCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A Tool for Semi-Automating the Statistical Disclosure Control of Research Outputs.

Changes in 1.0.0

Added support for tidyverse e.g. piping and the summarise() method
Added support for rounding as a mitigation strategy for tables
Added support for pie charts
Improved compatibility between acro_hist() and R's histogram function
Improved support for options in crosstab() and pivot_table()
Improved support of functionality from R's built-in table() command and acro_table()
Support the ontology-driven version of acro (v1 onwards)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("acro", 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("AI-SDC/ACRO-R")

Development version from AI-SDC/ACRO-R. 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-acro

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-acro

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-acro

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: 1.4 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
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

READMEYes · 416 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.0Citation fileNo

Help pages: 27
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (5)

How these are measured

Downloads

4.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,515 · ~12/day · ~374/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

66330 days

1.5K90 days

4.5K1 year

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Also on136 r2u41 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ai-sdc/acro-r ↗Organization: AI-SDC

4Stars

2Forks

6Open issues

3Open PRs

8Releases

152Commits

8Commit identities

data-privacydata-protectionprivacyprivacy-toolsstatistical-disclosure-controlstatistical-software

152 commits · Last activity 2026-09-16 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 91%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 10
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 8

Stars over time

2025-08-18 · 22026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

13 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 9 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ai-sdc/acro-r on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows

Governance and community (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-09 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 5 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Binder

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Automation and maintenance (2)

Dependabotpre-commit

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing acro adds 49 packages (29 with compiled code, 28 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, reticulate 1.6 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (11)

admiraldev dplyrgraphicsgridpng purrr reticulate rlang tibble tidyselectutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown spelling testthat

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 (3)

Jim Smith

Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2023), Contributor

Maha Albashir

Author, Contributor

Richard John Preen

Author, Contributor

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

1.0.0Latest
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2026-09-09 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
acro_disable_rounding, acro_enable_rounding, acro_pie, acro_summarise, create_factors, is_excluded, is_invalid, to_pandas_categorical
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.7
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2026-02-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
acro_disable_suppression, acro_enable_suppression
0.1.6
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2025-11-12 · diff ↗
0.1.5
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2025-07-03 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.4
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2025-01-29 · diff ↗
0.1.3
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2024-10-22 · diff ↗
0.1.2
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2024-08-19 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.1
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2023-12-01
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-12-01
Total releases: 8 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 4.5 KB / 2 files
Download size: 445 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("acro")

Format

Smith, J., Albashir, M., & Preen, R. J. (2026). acro: A Tool for Semi-Automating the Statistical Disclosure Control of Research Outputs (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.acro

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for acro version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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