R Observatory: Metrics for deprivateR version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

deprivateR

0.2.0Package record

Calculating and Analyzing Measures of Deprivation in the United States

0packages depend

2.8Kdownloads / year

78.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Christopher PrenerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗

Provides a unified framework to building Area Deprivation Index (ADI), Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), and Neighborhood Deprivation Index (NDI) deprivation measures and accessing related data from the U.S. Census Bureau such as Gini coefficient data. Tools are also available for calculating percentiles, quantiles, and for creating clear map breaks for data visualization.

Changes in 0.2.0

New features

Added dep_set_api_key() for easier Census API key management — checks for an explicit key, then the CENSUS_API_KEY env var, and prompts interactively if neither is found
Added a "Getting Started" vignette covering all supported indices, sample data workflows, and spatial output

Dependency changes

Removed stringr, english, tibble, and tidyselect from Imports, reducing hard dependencies from 14 to 10
Bumped minimum R version to 4.4

Improvements

Error messages now use cli formatting (tidyverse-style) instead of base stop()/warning()/message()

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Internal code quality improvements: extracted shared helpers, reduced nesting, and removed code duplication across SVI/NDI processing
Expanded test suite with 350+ new assertions covering all exported functions and core internals

Bug fixes

Fixed territory (e.g., Puerto Rico) FIPS code validation in dep_get_index() — was incorrectly comparing abbreviations instead of FIPS codes
Fixed pkgdown site build failure caused by docs/ directory conflict

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("deprivateR", 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("pfizer-opensource/deprivateR")

Development version from pfizer-opensource/deprivateR. 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-deprivater

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-deprivateR

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-deprivateR

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: 2.3 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-02

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ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 953 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 8
Examples that run: 88%7 run in a plain check (1 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%

Vignettes (1)

Getting Started with deprivateR HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,300 · ~8/day · ~237/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30330 days

90290 days

2.8K1 year

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Also on80 r2u11 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

pfizer-opensource/deprivater ↗Organization: pfizer-opensource

4Stars

1Forks

10Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

143Commits

2Commit identities

License file reads as Apache-2.0 · 143 commits · Last activity 2026-08-06

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-03-01 · 42026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

15 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/pfizer-opensource/deprivater 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

Governance and community (4)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templatesPR template

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-06 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (3)

lintrLint workflowRStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-05-27
Commits: at least 78 crediting it in the message
Claude Codefirst seen 2026-05-29
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing deprivateR adds 136 packages (73 with compiled code, 116 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.4

Imports (10)

classInt cli dplyr ndi rlang sf sociome tidycensus tidyr zippeR

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

knitr lintr measurements rmarkdown spelling testthat (>= 3.0.0)tigris withr

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)

Christopher Prener

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2025)

Timothy Wiemken

Author

Releases (2)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.2.0Latest
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2026-06-01 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
dep_set_api_key
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.0
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2025-01-29
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2025-01-29
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2)
Minimum R: ≥ 4.4
Download size: 134 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("deprivateR")

Format

Prener, C., & Wiemken, T. (2026). deprivateR: Calculating and Analyzing Measures of Deprivation in the United States (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.deprivateR

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for deprivateR version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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