R Observatory: Metrics for blaise version 1.3.11

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

blaise

1.3.11Package record

Read and Write FWF Files in the 'Blaise' Format

0packages depend

3.7Kdownloads / year

86.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Sjoerd OphofCRAN 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.

Changes in 1.3.11

fixed bug where STRING fields with escaped characters would get incorrectly written to a fwf file.

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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: 1.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.11

READMEYes · 257 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.3.11Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 3
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 67%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to blaise HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,516 · ~10/day · ~304/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33230 days

99690 days

3.7K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing blaise adds 28 packages (15 with compiled code, 19 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, dplyr 902 KB.

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

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Sjoerd Ophof

Author, Maintainer since 1.3.4 (2019)

Releases (6)

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-05-15
Total releases: 6 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 42 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("blaise")

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

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for blaise version 1.3.11 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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