R Observatory: Metrics for haven version 2.5.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

haven

2.5.5Package record

Import and Export 'SPSS', 'Stata' and 'SAS' Files

137packages dependsuggested by 114

7Mdownloads / year

55.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hadley WickhamCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Import foreign statistical formats into R via the embedded 'ReadStat' C library, https://github.com/WizardMac/ReadStat.

Changes in 2.5.5

Updated ReadStat to fix stricter gcc diagnostics.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("haven", 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("tidyverse/haven")

Development version from tidyverse/haven. 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-haven

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-haven

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-haven

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: 4.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-02

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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

Earlier advisories (1)Hide earlier advisories (1)

RSEC-2023-5Infinite loop, memory leak, and heap-based buffer over-read vulnerabilities
0.1.0 to 1.1.0, fixed in 1.1.1, 2023-10-05, CVE-2018-11364 High 7.5, CVE-2018-11365 High 7.5, CVE-2018-5698 High 7.8

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.5.5

READMEYes · 264 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.5.5Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 18 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%13 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 76%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 29%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

Conversion semantics HTML
Dates and times HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

7M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #133 · ~19.2K/day · ~582.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

473.3K30 days

1.3M90 days

7M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on74.9K r2u190 autocran1.2M conda_forge19K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

tidyverse/haven ↗Organization: tidyverse

457Stars

120Forks

11Open issues

3Open PRs

24Releases

869Commits

49Commit identities

spssstatarsas

869 commits · Last activity 2026-10-19 · +1.1% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.5.5.9000, ahead of CRAN 2.5.5 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 70%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 888
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 4522026-10-19 · 457

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/tidyverse/haven on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (4)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templatesSupport guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-11 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-05-30

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (3)

Lint workflowAirRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing haven adds 25 packages (13 with compiled code, 7.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6

Imports (10)

cli forcats hms lifecyclemethodsreadr rlang tibble tidyselect vctrs

LinkingTo (1)

cpp11

Suggests (8)

covr crayon fs knitr pillar rmarkdown testthat utf8

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

137direct

525indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 136

Suggested by 114

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 89 more dependents and 114 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Hadley Wickham

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2015)

Evan Miller

Author, Copyright holder

Author of included ReadStat code

Danny Smith

Author · added in 2.5.0

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 2.5.4

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 2.5.3

Releases (24)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2.3.1
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2020-06-01 · diff ↗
2.3.0
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2020-05-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
vec_arith.haven_labelled
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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added 1 export
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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added 3 exports
read_xpt, write_xpt, zap_widths
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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2016-09-23 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
hms

added 11 exports
format_tagged_na, is.labelled, is_tagged_na, labelled_spss, na_tag, print_labels, print_tagged_na, tagged_na, write_sas, zap_formats, zap_missing
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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read_stata
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2015-03-01
Total releases: 24 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6
Download size: 309 KB

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citation("haven")

Format

Wickham, H., Posit Software, PBC, Miller, E., & Smith, D. (2025). haven: Import and Export 'SPSS', 'Stata' and 'SAS' Files (Version 2.5.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.haven

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for haven version 2.5.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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