R Observatory: Metrics for censusindia version 0.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

censusindia

0.2.1Package record

Census of India Data, 1901-2011, with Boundaries and Projections

0packages depend

243downloads / year

80.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Saket ChoudharyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Tables from every decennial Census of India from 1901 to 2011: population time series, Primary Census Abstracts at state, district and sub-district level, mother tongue tables, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe populations, and the 1931 caste tables by religion, together with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare population projections to 2036. Historical series are drawn from Jolad and Singh (2026) doi:10.7910/DVN/ON8CP8. Census variables can be returned with state or district boundaries of the matching census year attached for mapping. Boundary files and the largest village-level tables are downloaded on first use and cached locally.

Changes in 0.2.1

REST API

serve() runs a plumber REST API over the accessors and shipped datasets, with paging, GeoJSON geometry and per-request logging.

New data

census_1931_castes: 1931 caste populations by religion for 24 provinces, states and agencies.
census_1931_exterior_castes: castes the 1931 Census classed as exterior, by province.

Data fixes

population_projections_state adds a merged "Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu" row (the sum of the two old UTs, kept alongside). Drop one form and "India" before summing states.
census_subdistricts_2011 now covers all Census 2011 subdistricts and sums to census_2011_pca.
census_1971 and census_1981 record an empty rural or urban sector as 0.
population_projections_district_lgd and both district age tables have no NA (Theni 2017-2031, Moga and Tapi 80+ 2022-2026 derived). The age tables download again on first use.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("censusindia", 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("saketlab/censusindia")

Development version from saketlab/censusindia. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

# 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-censusindia

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-censusindia

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

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Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK6 OK2026-10-16

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.2.1

READMEYes · 313 wordsVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 52 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%30 run in a plain check (15 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 89%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

243

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #25,450 · ~1/day · ~20/mo

Releases R versions

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24330 days

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Repository

saketlab/censusindia ↗Organization: saketlab

2Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

1Open PRs

1Releases

52Commits

2Commit identities

52 commits · Last activity 2026-10-18

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 50%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 6

PRs over time

2026-10-15 · 02026-10-24 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/saketlab/censusindia on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-10

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing censusindia adds 26 packages (18 with compiled code, 33 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (9)

cli dplyr rlang sfstatsstringr tibbletoolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

curl ggplot2 jsonlite patchwork plumber s2 scales testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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People & History

People (1)

Saket Choudhary

Releases (2)

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0.2.1Latest
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2026-10-18 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
census_api, serve
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listed once in CRAN's queue
Seen in one reading of CRAN's incoming queue, at 2026-10-18 07:37 UTC, so it stayed less than the time between readings.
0.2.0
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first seen 2026-10-15 ·
11 days in CRAN's queue
Listed in CRAN's incoming queue from 2026-10-03 21:57 to 2026-10-15 06:48 UTC, in 51 readings.
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Across CRAN, the median accepted release of the past year spent 26 hours in the queue, 90% under 11 days.How queue time is measured

Package metadata

First seen: 2026-10-15
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Copyright: See file COPYRIGHTS for the data included in and downloaded by this package.
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 1.3 MB / 20 files
Download size: 3.0 MB

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citation("censusindia")

Format

Choudhary, S. (2026). censusindia: Census of India Data, 1901-2011, with Boundaries and Projections (Version 0.2.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.censusindia

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for censusindia version 0.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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