R Observatory: Metrics for ipumsr version 0.10.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ipumsr

0.10.0Package record

An R Interface for Downloading, Reading, and Handling IPUMS Data

0packages dependsuggested by 3

59.3Kdownloads / year

86.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Derek BurkCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

An easy way to work with census, survey, and geographic data provided by IPUMS in R. Generate and download data through the IPUMS API and load IPUMS files into R with their associated metadata to make analysis easier. IPUMS data describing 1.4 billion individuals drawn from over 750 censuses and surveys is available free of charge from the IPUMS website https://www.ipums.org.

Changes in 0.10.0

Note: ipumsr now requires R version 4.1.0 or later.

New features

Added API support for IPUMS DHS ("dhs"). DHS extracts can now be defined (with define_extract_micro()), submitted (with submit_extract()), and downloaded (with download_extract()) via the IPUMS API using the same workflow as other microdata collections.

Function retirements

Functions define_extract_usa(), define_extract_cps(), and define_extract_ipumsi() are now defunct. Please use define_extract_micro() to define extracts for all microdata collections.

Bug fixes

Improved parsing of labeled values included in "codInstr" tags in the DDI codebook for microdata extracts (#94).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ipumsr", 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/ipumsr")

Development version from ipums/ipumsr. 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-ipumsr

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-ipumsr

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: 6.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-18

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ERROR10 OK, 4 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.10.0

READMEYes · 985 wordsVignettesYes · 7 · evaluation depends on the environmentNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.10.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 58 (18 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 92%47 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition) · 4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 92%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 96%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (7)

Aggregate Data API Requests HTML
Big IPUMS Data HTML
Introduction to the IPUMS API for R Users HTML
IPUMS Data and R HTML
Microdata API Requests HTML
Reading IPUMS Data HTML
Value Labels in IPUMS data HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

59.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,828 · ~162/day · ~4.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4.6K30 days

11.2K90 days

59.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on159 r2u212 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ipums/ipumsr ↗Organization: ipums

43Stars

11Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

15Releases

1,155Commits

17Commit identities

License file reads as MPL-2.0 · 1,155 commits · Last activity 2026-03-17 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.10.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.10.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 97%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-22 · 352026-07-21 · 43

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ipums/ipumsr 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 conductContributing guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-03-17 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-03-17

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

Show all practicesHide 4 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

34 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ipumsr adds 41 packages (25 with compiled code, 27 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, openssl 1.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (14)

dplyr haven hipread httr jsonlite lifecycle purrr R6 readr rlang tibble tidyselect xml2 zeallot

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (20)

biglm covr crayon DBI dbplyr DT ggplot2 htmltools knitr rmapshaper rmarkdown RSQLite rstudioapi scales sf shiny testthat tidyr vcr withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 3

Suggests, most downloaded first

Ecfun MaddisonData metasurvey

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (7)

Derek Burk

Author, Maintainer since 0.4.1 (2019)

Finn Roberts

Author · added in 0.5.0

Greg Freedman Ellis

Author

Dan Ehrlich

Contributor · added in 0.5.1

Joe Grover

Contributor

Renae Rodgers

Contributor · added in 0.5.1

Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation

Copyright holder · added in 0.6.0

Previously maintained by Greg Freedman Ellis (0.1.0 to 0.4.0).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Minnesota Population Center

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.5.2

Releases (25)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.10.0Latest
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2026-03-13 · current release · diff ↗
0.9.0
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2025-06-04 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
extract_list_to_tbl, extract_tbl_to_list, get_recent_extracts_info_list, get_recent_extracts_info_tbl

added 6 exports
catalog_types, define_extract_agg, get_metadata, get_metadata_catalog, read_ihgis_codebook, read_ipums_agg
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.8.2
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2025-02-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
download_supplemental_data
0.8.1
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2024-07-17 · diff ↗
0.8.0
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2024-07-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
define_extract_micro, tu_var_spec
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.7.2
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2024-03-12 · diff ↗
0.7.1
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2024-02-26 · diff ↗
0.7.0
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2023-10-20 · diff ↗ ·
removed 14 exports
ipums_list_data, ipums_list_raster, ipums_list_shape, make_ddi_from_scratch, read_ipums_codebook, read_ipums_sp, read_nhgis_sf, read_nhgis_sp, read_terra_area, read_terra_area_sf, read_terra_area_sp, read_terra_micro, read_terra_raster, read_terra_raster_list
0.6.3
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2023-09-02 · diff ↗
0.6.2
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2023-08-23 · diff ↗
0.6.1
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2023-08-18 · diff ↗
0.6.0
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2023-07-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 16 exports
all_of, any_of, define_extract_ipumsi, define_extract_nhgis, ds_spec, get_extract_history, get_metadata_nhgis, get_sample_info, last_col, problems, read_nhgis_codebook, samp_spec, set_ipums_default_collection, spec, tst_spec, var_spec
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

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0.5.2
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2022-12-09 · diff ↗
0.5.1
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2022-09-30 · diff ↗
0.5.0
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2022-06-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 18 exports
add_to_extract, define_extract_cps, define_extract_from_json, define_extract_usa, download_extract, extract_list_to_tbl, extract_tbl_to_list, get_extract_info, get_last_extract_info, get_recent_extracts_info_list, get_recent_extracts_info_tbl, ipums_data_collections, is_extract_ready, remove_from_extract, save_extract_as_json, set_ipums_api_key, submit_extract, wait_for_extract
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.4.5
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2020-07-22 · diff ↗
0.4.4
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2020-06-03 · diff ↗
0.4.3
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2020-05-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
lbl_define
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.4.2
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2019-06-04 · diff ↗
0.4.1
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2019-05-15 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.4.0
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2019-03-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
IpumsListYield, IpumsLongYield, read_ipums_micro_list_yield, read_ipums_micro_yield
0.3.0
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2018-09-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 9 exports
IpumsBiglmCallback, IpumsChunkCallback, IpumsDataFrameCallback, IpumsListCallback, IpumsSideEffectCallback, ipums_bind_rows, ipums_collect, read_ipums_micro_chunked, read_ipums_micro_list_chunked
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.0
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2018-04-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
%<-%, read_terra_area, read_terra_area_sf, read_terra_area_sp, read_terra_micro, read_terra_raster, read_terra_raster_list
0.1.1
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2017-12-15 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2017-11-14
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-14
Total releases: 25 / 9 yrs
License: Mozilla Public License 2.0
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 4.5 MB

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Format

Derek Burk, Dan Ehrlich, Finn Roberts, Greg Freedman Ellis, Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation, Joe Grover, & Renae Rodgers. (2026). ipumsr: An R Interface for Downloading, Reading, and Handling IPUMS Data (Version 0.10.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ipumsr

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ipumsr version 0.10.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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