R Observatory: Metrics for pipr version 1.5.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pipr

1.5.0Package record

Client for the Poverty and Inequality Platform ('PIP') API

0packages depend

2.4Kdownloads / year

74.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by R.Andrés CastañedaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

An interface to compute poverty and inequality indicators for more than 160 countries and regions from the World Bank's database of household surveys, through the Poverty and Inequality Portal (PIP).

Changes in 1.5.0

get_stats(), get_cp(), get_cp_ki(), and get_aux() now check their arguments before making an API request. Invalid country codes, years, poverty lines, population shares, data versions, dates, response formats, and other options produce an error that names the argument. Country codes must be uppercase three-letter codes (or "all" where supported); get_cp_ki() requires exactly one country code. Inputs that were previously sent to the API without local validation may now fail before the request.
Tests for the 2011 PPP poverty-line defaults in get_cp() and get_cp_ki() now use mocked responses because the live API rejects these requests. Automated CRAN-mode checks skip live API integration tests so temporary gateway failures do not fail package checks. The package website displays examples without making live API requests during deployment.

Show all changes in 1.5.0Hide the rest of the changes in 1.5.0

Corrected API argument, return-value, and example documentation. The call_aux() example no longer makes a network request during package checks.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("pipr", 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("worldbank/pipr")

Development version from worldbank/pipr. 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-pipr

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-pipr

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-pipr

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: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-18
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-16

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OK13 OK2026-07-10
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-05
OK13 OK2026-07-01
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-30
OK13 OK2026-05-31
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-30
OK13 OK2026-05-28
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-22
OK13 OK2026-05-21
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-14
OK14 OK2026-04-07
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-04
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.5.0

READMEYes · 136 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.5.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 26 (4 internal)
Examples that run: 100%13 run in a plain check (10 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #23,571 · ~6/day · ~196/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36030 days

55090 days

2.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on53 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

worldbank/pipr ↗Organization: worldbank

23Stars

4Forks

21Open issues

1Open PRs

6Releases

294Commits

9Commit identities

rpovertyglobal-povertyworldbank

294 commits · Last activity 2026-10-02 · +4.5% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 87%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 8
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-09-09 · 212026-10-01 · 23

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/worldbank/pipr 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 (4)

Code of conduct (inherited from worldbank)Contributing guideIssue templatesPR template

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-02 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-02

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 (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

25 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pipr adds 34 packages (20 with compiled code, 25 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, arrow 4.2 MB, openssl 1.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (12)

arrow attempt curl jsonlite tibble purrr cli rlangutilshttr2 stringr vroom

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (14)

covr testthat spelling knitr rmarkdown markdown callr ggplot2 tidyr ggthemes forcats scales dplyr readr

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)

R.Andrés Castañeda

Author, Maintainer since 1.4.0 (2025)

Author

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Author

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Copyright holder

Releases (2)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-09-30
1.5.0Latest
record
2026-09-30 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-08-24
policy violation On Internet access (intermittent)
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.4.0
record
2025-12-22
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-12-22
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 1.6 KB / 2 files
Download size: 718 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pipr")

Format

Castañeda, R. A., World Bank, Cecchinato, G., Eilertsen, A., Fujs, T., & Shah, R. (2026). pipr: Client for the Poverty and Inequality Platform ('PIP') API (Version 1.5.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pipr

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pipr version 1.5.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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