R Observatory: Metrics for politicsR version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

politicsR

0.1.0Package record

Calculating Political System Metrics

0packages depend

2.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Denisson SilvaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A toolbox to facilitate the calculation of political system indicators for researchers. This package offers a variety of basic indicators related to electoral systems, party systems, elections, and parliamentary studies, as well as others. Main references are: Loosemore and Hanby (1971) doi:10.1017/S000712340000925X; Gallagher (1991) doi:10.1016/0261-3794(91)90004-C; Laakso and Taagepera (1979) doi:10.1177/001041407901200101; Rae (1968) doi:10.1177/001041406800100305; Hirschmaņ (1945) <ISBN:0-520-04082-1>; Kesselman (1966) doi:10.2307/1953769; Jones and Mainwaring (2003) doi:10.1177/13540688030092002; Rice (1925) doi:10.2307/2142407; Pedersen (1979) doi:10.1111/j.1475-6765.1979.tb01267.x; SANTOS (2002) <ISBN:85-225-0395-8>.

Install

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

install.packages("politicsR", 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("silvadenisson/politicsR")

Development version from silvadenisson/politicsR. 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-politicsr

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-politicsR

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-politicsR

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTEDESCRIPTION meta-informationr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    ‘hiperfrac.R’ ‘rice.R’

r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    'hiperfrac.R' 'rice.R'

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 55 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTENow
NOTE3 OK, 11 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 213 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 14
Examples that run: 100%11 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #23,657 · ~7/day · ~198/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

18930 days

54890 days

2.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on72 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

silvadenisson/politicsr ↗Account: silvadenisson

9Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

73Commits

4Commit identities

cranrrstats

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 73 commits · Last activity 2023-03-16 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2023-09-01 · 82026-07-07 · 9

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/silvadenisson/politicsr on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CI (config file)AppVeyor

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing politicsR adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 21 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ineq 21 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (1)

ineq

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

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 (4)

Denisson Silva

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2023)

Jose Alexandre

Author

Fernando Meireles

Author

Willber Nascimento

Author

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.0Latest
record
2023-03-16 · current release
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-03-16
Total releases: 1 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Bundled data: 186 KB / 3 files
Download size: 200 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("politicsR")

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

It points to 10.5281/zenodo.7716660.

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 politicsR version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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