R Observatory: Metrics for epidata version 0.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

epidata

0.4.0Package record

Tools to Retrieve Economic Policy Institute Data Library Extracts

0packages depend

3.3Kdownloads / year

0.3%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Bob RudisCRAN page ↗GitLab ↗Issues ↗

The Economic Policy Institute (https://www.epi.org/) provides researchers, media, and the public with easily accessible, up-to-date, and comprehensive historical data on the American labor force. It is compiled from Economic Policy Institute analysis of government data sources. Use it to research wages, inequality, and other economic indicators over time and among demographic groups. Data is usually updated monthly.

Changes in 0.4.0

fixes CRAN check issue
added option to suppress citation/notes messages (use options(epidata.show.citation = FALSE))
switched to {tinytest}

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("epidata", 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("hrbrmstr/epidata")

Development version from hrbrmstr/epidata. 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-epidata

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-epidata

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-epidata

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespace in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘tinytest’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.0

READMEYes · 596 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.0Citation fileNo

Help pages: 26 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 96%23 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 96%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 92%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,355 · ~9/day · ~277/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

35930 days

99190 days

3.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on69 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

hrbrmstr/epidata ↗Account: hrbrmstr

20Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

15Commits

1Commit identities

rrstats

15 commits · Last activity 2020-08-25

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-04-11 · 202026-07-07 · 20

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/hrbrmstr/epidata on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (2)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2020-08-25

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing epidata adds 41 packages (24 with compiled code, 24 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (10)

purrr httr jsonlite dplyr rvest xml2 tidyr readr stringi tinytest

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Bob Rudis

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2017)

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.4.0Latest
record
2020-08-26 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
get_wage_ratios

added 1 export
not_dos
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.3.0
record
2019-04-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
get_annual_wages_by_wage_group, get_compensation_wages_and_benefits, get_minimum_wage, get_poverty_level_wages
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.0
record
2018-04-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
get_annual_wages_and_work_hours, get_health_insurance_coverage, get_pension_coverage, get_productivity_and_hourly_compensation, get_union_coverage, get_wage_decomposition
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.0
record
2017-01-08
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-01-08
Total releases: 4 / 9 yrs
License: AGPL
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: 421 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("epidata")

Format

Rudis, B. (2020). epidata: Tools to Retrieve Economic Policy Institute Data Library Extracts (Version 0.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.epidata

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 epidata version 0.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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