R Observatory: Metrics for alfred version 0.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

alfred

0.2.1

Downloading Time Series from ALFRED Database for Various Vintages

0packages depend

6Kdownloads / year

56.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Onno KleenFirst published 2017-06-0614 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides direct access to the ALFRED (https://alfred.stlouisfed.org) and FRED (https://fred.stlouisfed.org) databases. Its functions return tidy data frames for different releases of the specified time series. Note that this product uses the FRED© API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Install

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

install.packages("alfred", 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("onnokleen/alfred")

Development version from onnokleen/alfred. 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-alfred

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-alfred

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-alfred

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.19

56.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

9

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,111 · ~16/day · ~497/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

32730 days

1.1K90 days

6K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ onnokleen/alfred

20Stars

6Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

89Commits

1Contributors

89 commits · Last activity 2023-03-21 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/onnokleen/alfred on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (9)

dplyr tidyselect tidyr tibble magrittr lubridate jsonlite rlang httr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

testthat knitr rmarkdown ggplot2 covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Onno Kleen

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Onno Kleen

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

14 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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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
0.2.0
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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0.1.8
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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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2019-04-01 · diff ↗

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2018-04-06 · diff ↗
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0.1.4
2017-10-08 · diff ↗
0.1.3
2017-09-23 · diff ↗
0.1.1
2017-06-11 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2017-06-06
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-06-06
Total releases: 14 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 4.1 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("alfred")

Format

Kleen, O. (2023). alfred: Downloading Time Series from ALFRED Database for Various Vintages (Version 0.2.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.alfred

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for alfred version 0.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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