R Observatory: Metrics for psidR version 2.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

psidR

2.3

Build Panel Data Sets from PSID Raw Data

0packages depend

8.8Kdownloads / year

66.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Florian OswaldFirst published 2013-07-2213 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Makes it easy to build panel data in wide format from Panel Survey of Income Dynamics (PSID) delivered raw data. Downloads data directly from the PSID server using the 'SAScii' package. 'psidR' takes care of merging data from each wave onto a cross-period index file, so that individuals can be followed over time. The user must specify which years they are interested in, and the 'PSID' variable names (e.g. ER21003) for each year (they differ in each year). The package offers helper functions to retrieve variable names from different waves. There are different panel data designs and sample subsetting criteria implemented ("SRC", "SEO", "immigrant" and "latino" samples). More information about the PSID can be obtained at https://simba.isr.umich.edu/data/data.aspx.

Install

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

install.packages("psidR", 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("floswald/psidR")

Development version from floswald/psidR. 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-psidr

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-psidR

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-psidR

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.13

66.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

6

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

8.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,781 · ~24/day · ~735/mo

Releases R versions

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35430 days

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8.8K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ floswald/psidr

65Stars

37Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

173Commits

7Contributors

rpsiddatasetpanel-data

173 commits · Last activity 2024-11-07 · +1.6% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-16 · 572026-07-29 · 65

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/floswald/psidr on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (6)

data.table RCurlforeignSAScii openxlsx futile.logger

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

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)

Florian Oswald

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Florian Oswald

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

13 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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archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-08-20
policy violation On Internet access. Most recently: #── Error ('test_buildpanel.R:118:5'): wrong famvars and indvars raises an error ── #Error in `download.file(url = xlsxFile, destfile = tmpFile, cacheOK = FALSE, #mode = "wb", quiet = TRUE)`: cannot open URL 'http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/help/xyr/psid.xlsx'
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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Package metadata

First published: 2013-07-22
Total releases: 13 / 13 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 1.6 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("psidR")

Format

Oswald, F. (2024). psidR: Build Panel Data Sets from PSID Raw Data (Version 2.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.psidR

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for psidR version 2.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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