R Observatory: Metrics for countries version 1.2.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

countries

1.2.5Package record

Deal with Country Data in an Easy Way

1packages depend

7.5Kdownloads / year

66.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Francesco Saverio BellelliCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Wrangle country data more effectively and quickly. This package contains functions to easily identify and convert country names, download country information, merge country data from different sources, and make quick world maps.

Changes in 1.2.5

Updated data for Naoro's name change

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("countries", 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("fbellelli/countries")

Development version from fbellelli/countries. 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-countries

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-countries

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-countries

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: 3.4 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-25
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-12
OK12 OK2026-04-25

Show 1 earlier changeHide 1 earlier change

NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.5

READMEYes · 413 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2.5Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 23
Examples that run: 100%20 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

Dealing with country names HTML
Easy joining with auto_merge() HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

7.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,037 · ~21/day · ~627/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

74230 days

1.6K90 days

7.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on266 r2u13 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

fbellelli/countries ↗Account: fbellelli

4Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

10Releases

94Commits

3Commit identities

94 commits · Last activity 2026-10-11 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2024-08-03 · 22026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/fbellelli/countries on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-11 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-11

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing countries adds 47 packages (27 with compiled code, 37 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, viridis 2.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (15)

stringdist tidyr stringr dplyr knitr fastmatch lubridateutilsmethodsstatshttr jsonlite ggplot2 viridisgrDevices

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

data.table rmarkdown testthat curl rlang

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

leadeR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Francesco Saverio Bellelli

https://fbellelli.com/

Releases (11)

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1.2.5Latest
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1.2.4
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2026-07-18 · diff ↗
1.2.3
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2026-06-17 · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.2.2
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2025-06-14 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.2.1
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2025-02-22 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.2.0
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2024-01-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
check_countries_api
1.1.2
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2024-01-10 · diff ↗
1.1.1
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2023-11-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
list_countries, random_countries
1.0.5
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2023-10-06 · diff ↗
1.0.4
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2023-09-24 · diff ↗
1.0.3
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2023-09-01
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-09-01
Total releases: 11 / 3 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 866 KB / 3 files
Download size: 1.6 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("countries")

Format

Bellelli, F. S. (2026). countries: Deal with Country Data in an Easy Way (Version 1.2.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.countries

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

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for countries version 1.2.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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