R Observatory: Metrics for pricelevels version 1.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pricelevels

1.4.0

Spatial Price Level Comparisons

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

90.4%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Sebastian WeinandFirst published 2024-02-085 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Price comparisons within or between countries provide an overall measure of the relative difference in prices, often denoted as price levels. This package provides index number methods for such price comparisons (e.g., The World Bank, 2011, doi:10.1596/978-0-8213-9728-2). Moreover, it contains functions for sampling and characterizing price data.

Install

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

install.packages("pricelevels", 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("sweinand/pricelevels")

Development version from sweinand/pricelevels. 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-pricelevels

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-pricelevels

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-pricelevels

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.61

90.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

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
OK2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 1 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 223 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 89%
Documented parameters: 45%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 67%

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #21,605 · ~8/day · ~247/mo

Releases R versions

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12130 days

51290 days

3K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ sweinand/pricelevels

2Stars

0Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

120Commits

1Contributors

index-numbersprice-comparisonspatial-analysis

120 commits · Last activity 2025-07-27 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2026-05-12 · 12026-07-07 · 2

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/sweinand/pricelevels on 2026-08-16.

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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 >= 4.0.1

Imports (2)

data.table minpack.lm

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Sebastian Weinand

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Sebastian Weinand

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2024-02-08
Total releases: 5 / 2 yrs
License: EUPL
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.1
Download size: 139 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pricelevels")

Format

Weinand, S. (2025). pricelevels: Spatial Price Level Comparisons (Version 1.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pricelevels

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pricelevels version 1.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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