R Observatory: Metrics for censable version 0.0.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

censable

0.0.8Package record

Making Census Data More Usable

5packages depend

7.4Kdownloads / year

31.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Christopher T. KennyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Creates a common framework for organizing, naming, and gathering population, age, race, and ethnicity data from the Census Bureau. Accesses the API https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets.html. Provides tools for adding information to existing data to line up with Census data.

Changes in 0.0.8

Fixes issue where build_dec() would fail for blocks in 2010.
Cleans up old pipe re-exports in favor of new base R pipe system.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("censable", 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("christopherkenny/censable")

Development version from christopherkenny/censable. 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-censable

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-censable

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-censable

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: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-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 0.0.8

READMEYes · 235 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.0.8Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 46
Examples that run: 98%45 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

7.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,906 · ~20/day · ~620/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

52030 days

1.4K90 days

7.4K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

christopherkenny/censable ↗Account: christopherkenny

11Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

98Commits

1Commit identities

98 commits · Last activity 2026-05-01

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 8
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/christopherkenny/censable on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-05-01 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing censable adds 39 packages (27 with compiled code, 37 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (10)

dplyr rlang sf tibble stringr memoise purrr censusapimethodstinytiger

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

roxygen2 spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

1indirect

Imports 5

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

geomander ppmf cvap alarmdata redistverse

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Christopher T. Kenny

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.2 (2021)

Releases (4)

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R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.0.8Latest
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2025-09-01 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 7 exports
%>%, :=, .data, as_label, as_name, enquo, enquos
R
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
0.0.5
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2022-11-19 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
expr, sym, syms

added 2 exports
get_census_key, has_census_key
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.0.3
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2021-10-05 · diff ↗
0.0.2
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2021-07-29
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-07-29
Total releases: 4 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 210 KB / 5 files
Download size: 251 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("censable")

Format

Kenny, C. T. (2025). censable: Making Census Data More Usable (Version 0.0.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.censable

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 censable version 0.0.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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