R Observatory: Metrics for messydates version 1.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

messydates

1.1.1Package record

A Flexible Class for Messy Dates

1packages dependsuggested by 3

4.5Kdownloads / year

91.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

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

Contains a set of tools for constructing and coercing into and from the "mdate" class. This date class implements ISO 8601-2:2019(E) and allows regular dates and times to be annotated to express unspecified date or time components, approximate or uncertain components, ranges, and sets of dates. The package therefore retains, represents, and reasons about data and time imprecision, resolving to a single data/time only on demand. This is useful for describing and analysing temporal information, whether historical or recent, where date or time precision may vary.

Changes in 1.1.1

Package

Added a reverse dependency job to the PR checks workflow

Coercion

Added parsing of a day of the year, e.g. "the 103rd day of 2026" (closes #97)
Gives "2026-04-13"; "2026-103" notation is still rejected as ambiguous
Added parsing of a week of the year, e.g. "the 5th week of 2026" (closes #96)
Gives the range "2026-01-26..2026-02-01"
Weeks follow ISO 8601, so week 1 can start in December of the year before
"2026-W05" and "2026-W05-3" are read too, but recorded as dates/ranges
Updated the documentation of seasons in prose, e.g. "summer 2026" (closes #98)
Gives the northern-hemisphere month range "2026-06..2026-08"
"2026-22" season codes are still rejected as ambiguous

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Improved the errors for ordinal dates and season codes to name the prose form
Fixed "before" and "after" keeping both bounds of a range that followed
"before summer 2026" gave "..2026-06..2026-08" and now gives "..2026-06"
Fixed prose naming an impossible date becoming NA without a warning
"the 53rd week of 2025" now warns, as other unparseable text does

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

Development version from globalgov/messydates. 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-messydates

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-messydates

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-messydates

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: 2.3 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
OK13 OK2026-05-08

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WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.1

READMEYes · 1,891 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.1Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 21 (2 internal)
Examples that run: 95%18 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 87%
Documented parameters: 83%
Return-value docs: 77%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,178 · ~12/day · ~377/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

47530 days

1.2K90 days

4.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on151 r2u7 autocran1.5K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

globalgov/messydates ↗Organization: globalgov

17Stars

2Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

21Releases

947Commits

10Commit identities

rdates

947 commits · Last activity 2026-09-01 · +6.3% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 97%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 78
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-11 · 162026-10-02 · 17

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/globalgov/messydates on 2026-10-11.

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 2026-09-01 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-01

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (2)

Lint workflowRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-07-02
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Named in .gitignore: CLAUDE.md
GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-07-03
Commits: 1 by its own account

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing messydates adds 5 packages (3 with compiled code, 12 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, lubridate 420 KB, cpp11 298 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (3)

methodslubridate stringi

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

testthat rmarkdown anytime clock

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

1indirect

Depends 1

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

manydata

Suggests, most downloaded first

autograph poldis manystates

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

James Hollway

Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2021), Author, Contributor

IHEID

Henrique Sposito

Contributor

IHEID

Jael Tan

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

IHEID

Nathan Werth

Contributor · added in 0.4.1

Releases (14)

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1.1.1Latest
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2026-09-01 · current release · diff ↗
1.1.0
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2026-07-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
md_problems
1.0.0
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2026-07-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
approximate, hour, make_messyduration, mday, minute, second, tz, uncertain
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.5.4
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2025-06-02 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.5.3
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2025-03-20 · diff ↗
0.5.2
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2025-03-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
mreport

added 7 exports
is_bce, vmax, vmean, vmedian, vmin, vmodal, vrandom
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.4.1
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2024-04-19 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
NA_mdate_

added 13 exports
%><%, %>=<%, %g%, %ge%, %intersect%, %l%, %le%, %union%, is_subset, mdate, messyduration, new_messyduration, validate_messyduration
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.3.5
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2023-01-20 · diff ↗
0.3.3
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2022-12-21 · diff ↗
0.3.1
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2022-07-21 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
maxmax, minmin

added 3 exports
is_approximate, is_uncertain, mreport
0.3.0
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2022-06-02 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
NA_messydt_, interleave, resequence

added 4 exports
NA_mdate_, is_precise, maxmax, minmin
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

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0.2.1
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2022-02-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
interleave
0.2.0
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2021-11-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
as_approximate, as_uncertain, on_or_after, on_or_before, resequence
0.1.1
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2021-07-19
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-07-19
Total releases: 14 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Bundled data: 0.8 KB / 1 file
Download size: 3.6 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("messydates")

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for messydates version 1.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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