R Observatory: Metrics for midfieldr version 1.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

midfieldr

1.0.3

Tools and Methods for Working with MIDFIELD Data in 'R'

0packages depend

7.3Kdownloads / year

99.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Richard LaytonFirst published 2023-07-083 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides tools and demonstrates methods for working with individual undergraduate student-level records (registrar's data) in 'R'. Tools include filters for program codes, data sufficiency, and timely completion. Methods include gathering blocs of records, computing quantitative metrics such as graduation rate, and creating charts to visualize comparisons. 'midfieldr' interacts with practice data provided in 'midfielddata', an R data package available at https://midfieldr.github.io/midfielddata/. 'midfieldr' also interacts with the full MIDFIELD database for users who have access. As of the transfer of MIDFIELD to the American Society for Engineering Education in 2023, the development, expansion, and study of MIDFIELD has been supported by the National Science Foundation grants 0337629, 0646441, 0729596, 0734062, 0835914, 0935157, 0935058, 0969474, 1025171, 1129383, 1232740, 1329283, 1361058, 1545667, 2142087, 2141903, and 2152441.

Install

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

install.packages("midfieldr", 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("MIDFIELDR/midfieldr")

Development version from MIDFIELDR/midfieldr. 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-midfieldr

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-midfieldr

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-midfieldr

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

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

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.02

99.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,898 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 88%
References docs: 5%

Downloads

7.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,088 · ~20/day · ~611/mo

Releases R versions

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23930 days

1.2K90 days

7.3K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ midfieldr/midfieldr

2Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

881Commits

2Contributors

881 commits · Last activity 2026-08-15

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/midfieldr/midfieldr on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (4)

checkmate data.tablestatswrapr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Richard Layton

Maintainer, Author, Copyright holder

Authors (5)

Richard Layton

Maintainer, Author, Copyright holder

Russell Long

Author, Copyright holder, dtm

Susan Lord

Author, Copyright holder

Matthew Ohland

Author, Copyright holder

Marisa Orr

Author, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (5)

Richard Layton

Maintainer, Author, Copyright holder

Russell Long

Author, Copyright holder, dtm

Susan Lord

Author, Copyright holder

Matthew Ohland

Author, Copyright holder

Marisa Orr

Author, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

3 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

1.0.3Latest
2026-05-10 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.2
2024-05-17 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.1
2023-07-08
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-07-08
Total releases: 3 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 302 KB / 12 files
Download size: 1.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

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citation("midfieldr")

Format

Layton, R., Long, R., Lord, S., Ohland, M., & Orr, M. (2026). midfieldr: Tools and Methods for Working with MIDFIELD Data in 'R' (Version 1.0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.midfieldr

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for midfieldr version 1.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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