R Observatory: Metrics for hipread version 0.2.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

hipread

0.2.6Package record

Read Hierarchical Fixed Width Files

1packages depend

44.2Kdownloads / year

80.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Derek BurkCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: RStudio

Read hierarchical fixed width files like those commonly used by many census data providers. Also allows for reading of data in chunks, and reading 'gzipped' files without storing the full file in memory.

Changes in 0.2.6

Replaced call to Rf_error() with Rcpp::stop() (see issue #10).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("hipread", 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("ipums/hipread")

Development version from ipums/hipread. 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-hipread

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-hipread

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-02
NOTE11 OK, 1 NOTE2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-04-22

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-04-16
NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-28
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.6

READMEYes · 216 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.6Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 9 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 63%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 88%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

44.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,070 · ~121/day · ~3.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.1K30 days

8.6K90 days

44.2K1 year

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Also on444 r2u124 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ipums/hipread ↗Organization: ipums

0Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

195Commits

5Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-2.0 · 195 commits · Last activity 2026-03-17 · Default branch at 0.2.6.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.2.6 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 75%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 14
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 4

Forks over time

2024-10-17 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ipums/hipread on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (4)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)AppVeyor

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

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing hipread adds 13 packages (8 with compiled code, 20 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.2

Imports (4)

Rcpp R6 rlang tibble

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp BH

Suggests (3)

dplyr readr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

ipumsr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (12)

Derek Burk

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.1 (2019)

Author

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Code adapted from readr

Romain Francois

Contributor

Code adapted from readr

Jim Hester

Contributor

Code adapted from readr

Jukka Jylänki

Contributor, Copyright holder

Code adapted from readr

Mikkel Jørgensen

Contributor, Copyright holder

Code adapted from readr

Hadley Wickham

Contributor

Code adapted from readr

RStudio

Copyright holder, Funder

Code adapted from readr

University of Minnesota

Copyright holder

Previously maintained by Greg Freedman Ellis (0.1.0 to 0.2.0).

Releases (9)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2023-11-30 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2019-05-14 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.2.0
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2019-02-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
HipListYield, HipLongYield, hipread_list_yield, hipread_long_yield
0.1.1
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2018-08-02 · diff ↗

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2018-07-30
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-07-30
Total releases: 9 / 8 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) | file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.2
Download size: 40 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("hipread")

Format

Derek Burk, Joe Grover, Mark Padgham, R Core Team, RStudio, University of Minnesota, Francois, R., Freedman Ellis, G., Hester, J., Jylänki, J., Jørgensen, M., & Wickham, H. (2026). hipread: Read Hierarchical Fixed Width Files (Version 0.2.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.hipread

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for hipread version 0.2.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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