R Observatory: Metrics for asciiSetupReader version 2.5.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

asciiSetupReader

2.5.3

Reads Fixed-Width ASCII Data Files (.txt or .dat) that Have Accompanying Setup Files (.sps or .sas)

1packages depend

6.7Kdownloads / year

79.5%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jacob KaplanFirst published 2017-09-0715 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Lets you open a fixed-width ASCII file (.txt or .dat) that has an accompanying setup file (.sps or .sas). These file combinations are sometimes referred to as .txt+.sps, .txt+.sas, .dat+.sps, or .dat+.sas. This will only run in a txt-sps or txt-sas pair in which the setup file contains instructions to open that text file. It will NOT open other text files, .sav, .sas, or .por data files. Fixed-width ASCII files with setup files are common in older (pre-2000) government data.

Install

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

install.packages("asciiSetupReader", 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("jacobkap/asciiSetupReader")

Development version from jacobkap/asciiSetupReader. 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-asciisetupreader

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-asciiSetupReader

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-asciiSetupReader

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 8.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 8.97

79.5%

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
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 255 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 83%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

6.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,748 · ~18/day · ~557/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

32530 days

1.2K90 days

6.7K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ jacobkap/asciisetupreader

13Stars

5Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

247Commits

2Contributors

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247 commits · Last activity 2025-09-23 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jacobkap/asciisetupreader on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CIAppVeyor

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

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Coverage (1)

Codecov

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (9)

data.table haven readr vroom stringr zoo shiny (>= 0.13)miniUI rstudioapi

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

covr knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

psidread

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Jacob Kaplan

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Jacob Kaplan

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-09-07
Total releases: 15 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Download size: 3.5 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("asciiSetupReader")

Format

Kaplan, J. (2025). asciiSetupReader: Reads Fixed-Width ASCII Data Files (.txt or .dat) that Have Accompanying Setup Files (.sps or .sas) (Version 2.5.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.asciiSetupReader

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for asciiSetupReader version 2.5.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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