R Observatory: Metrics for historydata version 0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

historydata

0.1Package record

Data Sets for Historians

0packages depend

4.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Lincoln MullenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

These sample data sets are intended for historians learning R. They include population, institutional, religious, military, and prosopographical data suitable for mapping, quantitative analysis, and network analysis.

Changes in 0.1

Added sarna: Population estimates for American Jews.
Added us_state_populations: Populations of US states and territories.
Added catholic_dioceses: Locations and dates founded for Roman Catholic dioceses in the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
Added naval_promotions: Career data for officers of the line in the early U.S. Navy.
Added us_national_population: Populations of the United States of America.
Added early_colleges: Colleges founded in the United States before 1848.
Added paulist_missions: Missions held by the Paulists Fathers,1851-1893.
Added judges_people and judges_appointments: Federal judges, 1789--present.
Added tudors: relationships among the Tudor dynasty.

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("historydata", 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("ropensci/historydata")

Development version from ropensci/historydata. 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-historydata

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-historydata

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-historydata

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: 57 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-16
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-07-15
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1

READMEYes · 202 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 0.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 10includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%9 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 80%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,572 · ~13/day · ~384/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31830 days

86190 days

4.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on75 r2u9 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/historydata ↗Organization: ropensci

92Stars

25Forks

8Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

139Commits

6Commit identities

rrstatsr-package

139 commits · Last activity 2025-07-21 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.3.0, ahead of CRAN 0.1 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 96%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2,666
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 912026-08-23 · 92

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/historydata on 2026-10-21.

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 (2)

Code of conduct (inherited from ropensci)Contributing guide

Docs source (2)

README.qmdpkgdown

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

data-raw/Makefile

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing historydata adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.2

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

ggplot2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Lincoln Mullen

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2014)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.1Latest
record
2014-12-24 · current release
R
R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-12-24
Total releases: 1 / 12 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.2
Bundled data: 227 KB / 10 files
Download size: 237 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("historydata")

Format

Mullen, L. (2014). historydata: Data Sets for Historians (Version 0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.historydata

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for historydata version 0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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