R Observatory: Metrics for alarmdata version 0.2.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

alarmdata

0.2.4Package record

Download, Merge, and Process Redistricting Data

1packages depend

3.8Kdownloads / year

39.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Christopher T. KennyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Utility functions to download and process data produced by the ALARM Project, including 2020 redistricting files Kenny and McCartan (2021) https://alarm-redist.org/posts/2021-08-10-census-2020/ and the 50-State Redistricting Simulations of McCartan, Kenny, Simko, Garcia, Wang, Wu, Kuriwaki, and Imai (2022) doi:10.7910/DVN/SLCD3E. The package extends the data introduced in McCartan, Kenny, Simko, Garcia, Wang, Wu, Kuriwaki, and Imai (2022) doi:10.1038/s41597-022-01808-2 to also include states with only a single district. The package also includes the Japanese 2022 redistricting files from the 47-Prefecture Redistricting Simulations of Miyazaki, Yamada, Yatsuhashi, and Imai (2022) doi:10.7910/DVN/Z9UKSH.

Install

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

install.packages("alarmdata", 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("alarm-redist/alarmdata")

Development version from alarm-redist/alarmdata. 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-alarmdata

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-alarmdata

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-alarmdata

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 OK2026-08-20
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-18
OK13 OK2026-08-05

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NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.4

READMEYes · 143 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 0.2.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 7 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check (3 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,453 · ~11/day · ~320/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31930 days

98690 days

3.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on145 r2u40 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

alarm-redist/alarmdata ↗Organization: alarm-redist

6Stars

4Forks

0Open issues

2Open PRs

0Releases

170Commits

5Commit identities

170 commits · Last activity 2026-04-09 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 14
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 5

Stars over time

2023-01-10 · 42026-09-07 · 6

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/alarm-redist/alarmdata on 2026-10-21.

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 2026-04-09 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-04-09

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing alarmdata adds 88 packages (52 with compiled code, 67 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (15)

rlang cli curl dplyr readr stringr sf dataverse censable geomander tidyselect redist redistmetrics tinytiger rappdirs

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

rstudioapi rmapshaper testthat spelling

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

redistverse

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Christopher T. Kenny

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.4 (2025)

Kosuke Imai

Author

Cory McCartan

Author

Sho Miyazaki

Author · added in 0.2.4

Tyler Simko

Author

Michael Zhao

Author

Previously maintained by Cory McCartan (0.2.1).

Releases (2)

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R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-12-12
0.2.4Latest
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2025-12-12 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
alarm_japan_doc, alarm_japan_map, alarm_japan_plans, alarm_japan_stats
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-12-11
email to the maintainer is undeliverable
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.1
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2024-02-28
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2024-02-28
Total releases: 2 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 383 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("alarmdata")

Format

Kenny, C. T., Imai, K., McCartan, C., Miyazaki, S., Simko, T., & Zhao, M. (2025). alarmdata: Download, Merge, and Process Redistricting Data (Version 0.2.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.alarmdata

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for alarmdata version 0.2.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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