R Observatory: Metrics for lpanda version 0.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

lpanda

0.2.1Package record

Local Political Actor Network Diachronic Analysis Tools

0packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

83.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Vaclav BubenicekCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides functions to prepare, visualize, and analyse diachronic network data on local political actors, with a particular focus on the development of local party systems and identification of actor groups. Formalizes and automates a continuity diagram method that has been previously applied in research on Czech local politics, e.g. Bubenicek and Kubalek (2010, ISSN:1803-8220), Kubalek and Bubenicek (2012, ISSN:1803-8220), and Cmejrek, Bubenicek, and Copik (2010, ISBN:978-80-247-3061-5). The package also includes several example datasets derived from Czech municipal elections, compiled from official election results, field research, and previously published case studies on Czech local politics.

Changes in 0.2.1

Bug fixes

Improved handling of non-ASCII characters in plot text to avoid rare text conversion issues on some platforms.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("lpanda", 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("localpolitics/lpanda")

Development version from localpolitics/lpanda. 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-lpanda

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-lpanda

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-lpanda

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: 2.0 min · r-devel-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 0.2.1

READMEYes · 543 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.1Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 21 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%20 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 62%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #22,714 · ~7/day · ~215/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

21730 days

58590 days

2.6K1 year

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Also on70 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

localpolitics/lpanda ↗Organization: localpolitics

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

75Commits

1Commit identities

75 commits · Last activity 2026-03-25 · Default branch at 0.2.1.9001, ahead of CRAN 0.2.1 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

not measured

Releases over time

2025-09-03 · 12026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/localpolitics/lpanda on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-03-25 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-03-25

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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CRAN release process (1)

revdep/

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing lpanda adds 22 packages (11 with compiled code, 13 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: igraph 4.8 MB, farver 1.2 MB, viridisLite 1.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (5)

igraph dplyr magrittr RColorBrewer scales

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Vaclav Bubenicek

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU)

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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Package metadata

First published: 2025-09-01
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 50 KB / 18 files
Download size: 162 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("lpanda")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.32614/cran.package.lpanda.

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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 lpanda version 0.2.1 [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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