R Observatory: Metrics for frenchdata version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

frenchdata

0.2.0

Download Data Sets from Kenneth's French Finance Data Library Site

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8.7Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Nelson ArealFirst published 2021-05-182 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Download data sets from Kenneth's French finance data library site http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/ken.french/data_library.html, reads all the data subsets from the file. Allows R users to collect the data as 'tidyverse'-ready data frames.

Install

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

install.packages("frenchdata", 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("nareal/frenchdata")

Development version from nareal/frenchdata. 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-frenchdata

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-frenchdata

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-frenchdata

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

14

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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

Documentation

READMEYes · 92 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

8.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,276 · ~24/day · ~728/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ nareal/frenchdata

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1Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

68Commits

2Contributors

rdatafinance

68 commits · Last activity 2024-03-22

Repository practices

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Checks run against github.com/nareal/frenchdata on 2026-08-23.

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3

Imports (14)

utilsmagrittr tibble dplyr tidyr cli httr rvest stringr purrr assertthat rlang fs readr

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none

Suggests (5)

markdown rmarkdown knitr lubridate ggplot2

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

1direct

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sdim

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Nelson Areal

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Nelson Areal

Author, Maintainer

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Package metadata

First published: 2021-05-18
Total releases: 2 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3
Download size: 939 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("frenchdata")

Format

Areal, N. (2021). frenchdata: Download Data Sets from Kenneth's French Finance Data Library Site (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.frenchdata

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for frenchdata version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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