R Observatory: Metrics for data.checker version 2.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

data.checker

2.0.0Package record

Data Checker for Validating Data Frames Against Defined Schema

0packages depend

1.3Kdownloads / year

96.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Analysis Standards and Pipelines Team (ONS)CRAN page ↗Website ↗

Validates data frames against a defined schema. Produces a report of the checks performed and any issues found, with index and entry value where appropriate. Backend checks are performed using pointblank Richard Iannone et al (2025) doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.pointblank.

Changes in 2.0.0

Added

Support for SparklyR
Extended schema checks for types and expected checks based on type
Backseries checks
Interquartile range checks
Z score check

Changed

Rewrote backend for checks, now using pointblank for validation
allowed_strings renamed allowed_values and now works for all data types
forbidden_strings renamed forbidden_values and now works for all data types

Removed

Number of decimal place checks

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Fixed

misc bugs
issue where using a column named i would cause unexpected failures with unclear error message

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("data.checker", 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-data.checker

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-data.checker

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

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
OK7 OK2026-06-09

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.0.0

READMEYes · 870 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.0.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 31 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 13%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

Data checker HTML
export_options HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

1.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,126 · ~4/day · ~109/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36630 days

84690 days

1.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on25 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

onsdigital/data.checker ↗Organization: ONSdigital

5Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

77Commits

4Commit identities

77 commits · Last activity 2026-06-09 · +25% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 96%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 54
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 3

Stars over time

2026-01-14 · 32026-09-29 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/onsdigital/data.checker on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (1)

CODEOWNERS

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-09 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-06-09

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing data.checker adds 91 packages (44 with compiled code, 57 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, gt 3.3 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (17)

dplyr glue jsonlite knitr lubridate magrittrtoolsyaml tomleditutilscli rlang pointblank tidyselect tidyr stringr hms

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Analysis Standards and Pipelines Team (ONS)

Maintainer since 2.0.0 (2026), Author

Crown Copyright

Copyright holder

Releases (1)

2.0.0Latest
record
2026-06-08 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-06-08
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 340 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("data.checker")

Format

Analysis Standards and Pipelines Team (ONS), & Crown Copyright. (2026). data.checker: Data Checker for Validating Data Frames Against Defined Schema (Version 2.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.data.checker

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

Cite the R Observatory

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for data.checker version 2.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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