R Observatory: Metrics for prisonbrief version 0.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2026-01-29. Its history is shown below.

Reason: requires archived package 'passport'

Details below reflect version 0.1.2, its last release before removal.

prisonbrief

0.1.2

Downloads and Parses World Prison Brief Data

0packages depend

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Danilo Freire2 releasesCRAN page ↗

Download, parses and tidies information from the World Prison Brief project http://www.prisonstudies.org/.

Install

R (source archive)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/prisonbrief/prisonbrief_0.1.2.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "prisonbrief_0.1.2.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (0.1.2) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

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-prisonbrief

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

# 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-prisonbrief

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

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.03

not tracked

Coverage

80%

Documentation · exports

12

Dependencies · direct

Documentation

READMEYes · 970 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 50%
Return-value docs: 25%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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Also on87 r2u16 autocran

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0

Imports (12)

sf dplyr httr magrittr (>= 1.5)passport rnaturalearth rnaturalearthdata rvest stringr (>= 1.2.0)tibble tidyr xml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

–indirect (not tracked)

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Other (2)

Danilo Freire

Contributor

Robert McDonnell

Contributor

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-01-29
requires archived package 'passport'
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.2
2021-02-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1.0
2017-07-22
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

Total releases: 2
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0
Bundled data: 136 KB / 2 files
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("prisonbrief")

Format

Freire, D., & McDonnell, R. (n.d.). prisonbrief: Downloads and Parses World Prison Brief Data (Version 0.1.2) [Computer software]. Retrieved August 13, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=prisonbrief

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for prisonbrief version 0.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-13. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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