R Observatory: Metrics for manystates version 1.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

manystates

1.0.3Package record

Many Data on State and State-Like Actors in the International System

0packages depend

2.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by James HollwayCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Comprehensively identifying states and state-like actors is difficult. This package provides data on states and state-like entities in the international system across time. The package combines and cross-references several existing datasets consistent with the aims and functions of the manydata package. It also includes functions for identifying state references in text, and for generating fictional state names.

Changes in 1.0.3

Package

Improved README to reveal generated state names

Functions

Fixed generate_states() to avoid generation failure on rare edge cases
Improved generate_states() to avoid preposition repetitions, prepositions beginning or ending state names, and other issues
Note that generate_states() no longer uses the Markov chain approach advertised in the previous version, but generates more realistic names overall
Improved generate_states() to include modifying prefixes according to real-world distributions

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("manystates", 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("globalgov/manystates")

Development version from globalgov/manystates. 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-manystates

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-manystates

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-manystates

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: 4.2 min · r-release-macos-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 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.3

READMEYes · 1,437 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.3Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 5 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 67%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

GGO states codebook HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #21,542 · ~7/day · ~203/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

26830 days

61690 days

2.4K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

globalgov/manystates ↗Organization: globalgov

6Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

14Releases

964Commits

8Commit identities

datasetsstates-actorsr

License file reads as CC-BY-4.0 · 964 commits · Last activity 2025-10-20 · +20% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 85%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 181
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-07 · 52026-10-02 · 6

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/globalgov/manystates on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (4)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templatesPR template

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-10-20 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-10-20

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (2)

Lint workflowRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing manystates adds 81 packages (44 with compiled code, 63 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0manydata

Imports (3)

knitr purrr stringi

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

pointblank messydates testthat rmarkdown

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 (6)

James Hollway

Maintainer since 1.0.2 (2025), Author, Contributor

IHEID

Bernhard Bieri

Contributor

IHEID

Mylan Evrard

Contributor

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Esther Peev

Contributor

IHEID

Henrique Sposito

Contributor

IHEID

Jael Tan

Contributor

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Releases (2)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-10-14
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: CC BY 4.0
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 44 KB / 1 file
Download size: 503 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("manystates")

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

It points to 10.5281/zenodo.5205704.

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 manystates version 1.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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