R Observatory: Metrics for hicp version 1.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

hicp

1.1.0

Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

91.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Sebastian WeinandFirst published 2024-02-049 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) is the key economic figure to measure inflation in the euro area. The methodology underlying the HICP is documented in the HICP Methodological Manual (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-manuals-and-guidelines/w/ks-gq-24-003). Based on the manual, this package provides functions to access and work with HICP data from Eurostat's public database (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database).

Install

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

install.packages("hicp", 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("eurostat/hicp")

Development version from eurostat/hicp. 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-hicp

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-hicp

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-hicp

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.7 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.15

91.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
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NOTE2026-08-01
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OK2026-03-28
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-20
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 81 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 89%
Documented parameters: 86%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 56%

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,142 · ~8/day · ~250/mo

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13930 days

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Repository

GitHub ↗ eurostat/hicp

3Stars

5Forks

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9Releases

84Commits

1Contributors

inflationpricesstatisticsconsumer-price-index

84 commits · Last activity 2026-02-06 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/eurostat/hicp on 2026-08-16.

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (2)

restatapi data.table

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none

Suggests (3)

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Sebastian Weinand

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Sebastian Weinand

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

9 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2024-02-04
Total releases: 9 / 2 yrs
License: EUPL
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 470 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("hicp")

Format

Weinand, S. (2026). hicp: Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (Version 1.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.hicp

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for hicp version 1.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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