R Observatory: Metrics for ppmf version 0.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ppmf

0.2.1Package record

Read Census Privacy Protected Microdata Files

0packages depend

6Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Christopher T. KennyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Implements data processing described in doi:10.1126/sciadv.abk3283 to align modern differentially private data with formatting of older US Census data releases. The primary goal is to read in Census Privacy Protected Microdata Files data in a reproducible way. This includes tools for aggregating to relevant levels of geography by creating geographic identifiers which match the US Census Bureau's numbering. Additionally, there are tools for grouping race numeric identifiers into categories, consistent with OMB (Office of Management and Budget) classifications. Functions exist for downloading and linking to existing sources of privacy protected microdata.

Changes in 0.2.1

Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
Updates the logo and readme.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ppmf", 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("christopherkenny/ppmf")

Development version from christopherkenny/ppmf. 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-ppmf

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-ppmf

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-ppmf

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
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.1

READMEYes · 207 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.2.1Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 16
Examples that run: 56%9 run in a plain check · 7 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,677 · ~17/day · ~502/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

37430 days

1K90 days

6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on67 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

christopherkenny/ppmf ↗Account: christopherkenny

3Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

44Commits

1Commit identities

44 commits · Last activity 2026-05-01 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2021-09-29 · 12026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/christopherkenny/ppmf on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-05-01 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

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

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ppmf adds 53 packages (34 with compiled code, 40 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (8)

censable dplyr readr rlang stringr tibble tidyr zip

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

roxygen2 spelling

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 (1)

Christopher T. Kenny

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.3 (2021)

Releases (2)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.1Latest
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2025-09-04 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
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added 1 export
add_ppmf19r_path
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.3
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2021-12-15
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-12-15
Total releases: 2 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 6.3 KB / 3 files
Download size: 43 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("ppmf")

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

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 ppmf version 0.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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