R Observatory: Metrics for poliscidata version 2.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

poliscidata

Datasets and Functions Featured in Pollock and Edwards, an R Companion to Essentials of Political Analysis, Second Edition

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10.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Barry EdwardsCRAN page ↗

Bundles the datasets and functions used in the textbook by Philip Pollock and Barry Edwards, an R Companion to Essentials of Political Analysis, Second Edition.

Changes in 2.3.0

Minor Changes:

Retired wtd.boxplot function that was imported from ENmisc package. The ENmisc package has been archived and is no longer suppported.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("poliscidata", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-poliscidata

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-poliscidata

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-poliscidata

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Barry Edwards <barry.edwards@ucf.edu>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Barry",
                      family = "Edwards",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "barry.edwards@ucf.edu"),
               person(given = "Philip",
                      family = "Pollock",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-05-02
ERROR9 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.3.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 2.3.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 46
Examples that run: 100%27 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 87%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 97%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

10.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,185 · ~29/day · ~877/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.1K30 days

2.1K90 days

10.5K1 year

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Also on102 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing poliscidata adds 123 packages (66 with compiled code, 99 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (11)

methodsdescr Hmisc weights plyr gplots xtable survey car plotrix abind

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

hexbin rgl scatterplot3d R2HTML gdata

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 (from the free-text Author field) (2)

Barry Edwards

Philip Pollock

· added in 2.2.0

Maintainer since 1.2.0 (2016)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Phillip Pollock

no longer listed · 1.2.0

Releases (5)

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-10-25
Total releases: 5 / 10 yrs
License: CC0
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 1.9 MB / 9 files
Download size: 2.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("poliscidata")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for poliscidata version 2.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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