R Observatory: Metrics for idbr version 1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

idbr

1.2

R Interface to the US Census Bureau International Data Base API

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3.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Kyle WalkerFirst published 2016-02-295 releasesCRAN 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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

8

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 277 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 50%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,056 · ~11/day · ~326/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Kyle Walker

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Kyle Walker

Author, Maintainer

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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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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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

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for idbr version 1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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