R Observatory: Metrics for gunsales version 0.1.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gunsales

0.1.3

Statistical Analysis of Monthly Background Checks of Gun Purchases

0packages depend

5.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Dirk EddelbuettelFirst published 2016-02-294 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Statistical analysis of monthly background checks of gun purchases for the New York Times story "What Drives Gun Sales: Terrorism, Obama and Calls for Restrictions" at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/10/us/gun-sales-terrorism-obama-restrictions.html is provided.

Install

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

install.packages("gunsales", 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("eddelbuettel/gunsales")

Development version from eddelbuettel/gunsales. 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-gunsales

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

# 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-gunsales

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

8

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 · 307 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

5.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,212 · ~14/day · ~421/mo

Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ eddelbuettel/gunsales

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121 commits · Last activity 2026-08-14 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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Continuous integration (2)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (8)

utilsdplyr rlang seasonal ggplot2 data.table zoo x13binary

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer

Gregor Aisch

Author

Josh Keller

Author

Package Timeline

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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-02-29
Total releases: 4 / 10 yrs
License: Apache License (== 2)
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Bundled data: 234 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.1 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Eddelbuettel, D., Aisch, G., & Keller, J. (2026). gunsales: Statistical Analysis of Monthly Background Checks of Gun Purchases (Version 0.1.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gunsales

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gunsales version 0.1.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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