R Observatory: Metrics for easyPSID version 0.1.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

easyPSID

0.1.3

Reading, Formatting, and Organizing the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)

0packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

62.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Brian AronsonFirst published 2019-07-014 releasesCRAN page ↗

Provides various functions for reading and preparing the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) for longitudinal analysis, including functions that read the PSID's fixed width format files directly into R, rename all of the PSID's longitudinal variables so that recurring variables have consistent names across years, simplify assembling longitudinal datasets from cross sections of the PSID Family Files, and export the resulting PSID files into file formats common among other statistical programming languages ('SAS', 'STATA', and 'SPSS').

Install

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

install.packages("easyPSID", 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-easypsid

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-easyPSID

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-easyPSID

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.29

62.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
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NOTE2026-08-01
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OK2026-05-01
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-03-21
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 583 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,346 · ~9/day · ~267/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (4)

R >= 3.0.1stringr LaF foreign (>= 0.8-67)

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

readxl testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Brian Aronson

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Brian Aronson

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

4 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

0.1.3Latest
2026-08-04 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.2
2021-10-03 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.1
2020-02-16 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2019-07-01
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-07-01
Total releases: 4 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.1
Download size: 635 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("easyPSID")

Format

Aronson, B. (2026). easyPSID: Reading, Formatting, and Organizing the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) (Version 0.1.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.easyPSID

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for easyPSID version 0.1.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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