R Observatory: Metrics for blaise version 1.3.11

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

blaise

1.3.11

Read and Write FWF Files in the 'Blaise' Format

0packages depend

3.5Kdownloads / year

86.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Sjoerd OphofFirst published 2019-05-156 releasesCRAN page ↗

Can be used to read and write a fwf with an accompanying 'Blaise' datamodel. Blaise is the software suite built by Statistics Netherlands (CBS). It is essentially a way to write and collect surveys and perform statistical analysis on the data. It stores its data in fixed width format with an accompanying metadata file, this is the Blaise format. The package automatically interprets this metadata and reads the file into an R dataframe. When supplying a datamodel for writing, the dataframe will be automatically converted to that format and checked for compatibility. Supports dataframes, tibbles and LaF objects. For more information about 'Blaise', see https://blaise.com/products/general-information.

Install

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

install.packages("blaise", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-blaise

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-blaise

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-blaise

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.52

86.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

8

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

READMEYes · 257 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 67%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,865 · ~10/day · ~291/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (8)

dplyr readr stringrutilstibbletoolsmethods (>= 3.4.1)stats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

testthat LaF knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Sjoerd Ophof

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Sjoerd Ophof

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

6 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
1.3.11Latest
2023-12-08 · current release · diff ↗
1.3.10
2023-08-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.3.9
2022-10-07 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.3.8
2021-09-13 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-09-13
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-08-04
check problems were not corrected in time
1.3.7
2021-06-04 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.3.4
2019-05-15
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-05-15
Total releases: 6 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 42 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Ophof, S. (2023). blaise: Read and Write FWF Files in the 'Blaise' Format (Version 1.3.11) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.blaise

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for blaise version 1.3.11 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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