R Observatory: Metrics for fec16 version 0.1.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fec16

0.1.6Package record

Data Package for the 2016 United States Federal Elections

0packages depend

3.5Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Marium TapalCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Easily analyze relational data from the United States 2016 federal election cycle as reported by the Federal Election Commission. This package contains data about candidates, committees, and a variety of different financial expenditures. Data is from https://www.fec.gov/data/browse-data/?tab=bulk-data.

Install

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

install.packages("fec16", 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("baumer-lab/fec16")

Development version from baumer-lab/fec16. 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-fec16

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-fec16

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-fec16

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: 2.1 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.6

READMEYes · 425 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 0.1.6Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 17includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%4 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

fec16 HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,866 · ~10/day · ~295/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36730 days

97190 days

3.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on98 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

baumer-lab/fec16 ↗Organization: baumer-labFork of ranawg/fec16

3Stars

4Forks

2Open issues

1Open PRs

2Releases

250Commits

7Commit identities

250 commits · Last activity 2025-09-01 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (0.1.5) than CRAN on 2026-10-21

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 14
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 3

Stars over time

2020-11-16 · 22026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/baumer-lab/fec16 on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing fec16 adds 48 packages (26 with compiled code, 18 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: pak 3.8 MB, fs 1.4 MB, openssl 1.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (4)

dplyr readr vroom usethis

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

testthat scales knitr rmarkdown fs lubridate ggplot2 stringr utf8

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Marium Tapal

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2020)

Benjamin S. Baumer

Author

Rana Gahwagy

Author

Irene Ryan

Author

Releases (7)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.6Latest
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2025-11-17 · current release · diff ↗
0.1.5
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2025-09-01 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-08-09
0.1.4
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2023-08-09 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-10-03
check issues were not corrected despite reminders
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.3
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2020-11-15 · diff ↗
0.1.2
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2020-10-18 · diff ↗
0.1.1
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2020-08-25 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2020-07-30
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-07-30
Total releases: 7 / 6 yrs
License: CC0
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 1.3 MB / 12 files
Download size: 1.7 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("fec16")

Format

Tapal, M., Baumer, B. S., Gahwagy, R., & Ryan, I. (2025). fec16: Data Package for the 2016 United States Federal Elections (Version 0.1.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.fec16

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

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for fec16 version 0.1.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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