R Observatory: Metrics for easycensus version 1.1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

easycensus

1.1.4Package record

Quickly Find, Extract, and Marginalize U.S. Census Tables

1packages dependsuggested by 1

4.3Kdownloads / year

18.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Cory McCartanCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Extracting desired data using the proper Census variable names can be time-consuming. This package takes the pain out of that process by providing functions to quickly locate variables and download labeled tables from the Census APIs (https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets.html).

Install

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

install.packages("easycensus", 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("CoryMcCartan/easycensus")

Development version from CoryMcCartan/easycensus. 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-easycensus

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-easycensus

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-easycensus

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: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-21
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-13
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.4

READMEYes · 335 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 1.1.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 14 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 56%5 run in a plain check · 4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 83%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,465 · ~12/day · ~359/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

35330 days

1.1K90 days

4.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on87 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

corymccartan/easycensus ↗Account: CoryMcCartan

18Stars

1Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

51Commits

2Commit identities

rcensuscensus-apiacs-data

51 commits · Last activity 2026-05-13 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 245
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-03-29 · 162026-07-07 · 18

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/corymccartan/easycensus 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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-05-13 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-05-13, before release 1.1.4 (2026-05-14)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (2)

AirRStudio 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 2026-05-13
Pull request: opened by its own account
Commits: 3 by its own account

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

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing easycensus adds 28 packages (18 with compiled code, 21 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (8)

rlang vctrs pillar dplyr tidyr stringr censusapi cli

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

posterior testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

redistverse

Suggests, most downloaded first

birdie

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Cory McCartan

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.1 (2022)

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

1.1.4Latest
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2026-05-14 · 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
1.1.3
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2025-02-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.1.1
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2023-03-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
cens_find, cens_get_raw, cens_parse_tables, tidy_income_bins
1.0.0
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2022-08-25 · diff ↗ ·
removed 9 exports
find_acs_table, find_dec_table, get_acs_table, get_dec_table, marginalize, moe_product, moe_prop, moe_ratio, moe_sum

added 16 exports
as_estimate, cens_find_acs, cens_find_dec, cens_geo, cens_get_acs, cens_get_dec, cens_margin_to, est_pct_chg, est_prop, estimate, get_est, get_moe, get_se, is_estimate, tidy_race_detailed, to_rvar
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.2.1
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2022-02-28
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-02-28
Total releases: 5 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 108 KB / 2 files
Download size: 183 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("easycensus")

Format

McCartan, C. (2026). easycensus: Quickly Find, Extract, and Marginalize U.S. Census Tables (Version 1.1.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.easycensus

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for easycensus version 1.1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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