R Observatory: Metrics for idbr version 1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

idbr

1.2Package record

R Interface to the US Census Bureau International Data Base API

0packages depend

3.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kyle WalkerCRAN page ↗

Use R to make requests to the US Census Bureau's International Data Base API. Results are returned as R data frames. For more information about the IDB API, visit https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/international-database.html.

Install

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

install.packages("idbr", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-idbr

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-idbr

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-idbr

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: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2

READMEYes · 277 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 8includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 50%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,259 · ~10/day · ~318/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

39730 days

1.1K90 days

3.8K1 year

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Also on94 r2u1 autocran136 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing idbr adds 36 packages (25 with compiled code, 40 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, rnaturalearthdata 3.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (8)

jsonlite dplyr httr countrycode purrr rnaturalearthdata sf stringr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

tidyr plotly

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)

Kyle Walker

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.2 (2016)

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-02-29
Total releases: 5 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Bundled data: 1.6 KB / 1 file
Download size: 41 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("idbr")

Format

Walker, K. (2024). idbr: R Interface to the US Census Bureau International Data Base API (Version 1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.idbr

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 idbr version 1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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