R Observatory: Metrics for benford.analysis version 0.1.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

benford.analysis

0.1.5Package record

Benford Analysis for Data Validation and Forensic Analytics

0packages dependsuggested by 2

8.3Kdownloads / year

97.5%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Carlos CinelliCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides tools that make it easier to validate data using Benford's Law.

Install

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

install.packages("benford.analysis", 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("carloscinelli/benford.analysis")

Development version from carloscinelli/benford.analysis. 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-benford.analysis

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-benford.analysis

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-benford.analysis

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  benford.analysis/tests/testthat/test-benford.R (.Names: 1)
  benford.analysis/tests/testthat/test-digits.R (.Names: 1)
  benford.analysis/tests/testthat/test-get.R (.Names: 7)
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Carlos Cinelli <carloscinelli@hotmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = "Carlos",
                    family = "Cinelli",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "carloscinelli@hotmail.com")
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTE2026-09-08
ERROR8 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-05-10
WARNING11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-05-09
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.5

READMEYes · 437 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 26includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%16 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 94%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 31%

How these are measured

Downloads

8.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,144 · ~23/day · ~690/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

59730 days

1.6K90 days

8.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on173 r2u21 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

carloscinelli/benford.analysis ↗Account: carloscinelli

65Stars

14Forks

9Open issues

1Open PRs

4Releases

124Commits

8Commit identities

124 commits · Last activity 2019-08-24 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 95%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 8
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-06 · 622026-07-07 · 65

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/carloscinelli/benford.analysis on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CI (config file)AppVeyor

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing benford.analysis adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 5.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (1)

data.table

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

jfa digitTests

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Carlos Cinelli

Maintainer since 0.1 (2014)

Releases (7)

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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
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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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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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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2016-05-08 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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2014-05-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 11 exports
MAD, chisq, dfactor, extract.digits, getBfd, getData, getDigits, mantissa, marc, p.these.digits, p.this.digit.at.n
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published: 2014-01-22
Total releases: 7 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Bundled data: 1.4 MB / 7 files
Download size: 1.4 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("benford.analysis")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for benford.analysis version 0.1.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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