R Observatory: Metrics for pwt8 version 8.1-1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pwt8

8.1-1Package record

Penn World Table (Version 8.x)

0packages depend

3.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Achim ZeileisCRAN page ↗

The Penn World Table 8.x provides information on relative levels of income, output, inputs, and productivity for 167 countries between 1950 and 2011.

Changes in 8.1-1

Updated documentation after R package "pwt9" was released for PWT 9.0.

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("pwt8", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-pwt8

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-pwt8

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-pwt8

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Achim Zeileis <Achim.Zeileis@R-project.org>’

Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style personList() or
as.personList().  Please use c() on person objects instead.
Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry().  Please
use bibentry() instead.

Found the following URLs which should use \doi (with the DOI name only):
  File ‘pwt8.0.Rd’:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.15141/S5159X
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.10.001
  File ‘pwt8.1.Rd’:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.15141/S5NP4S

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 39 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
WARNING11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 8.1-1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 0% structured · mentions 8.1-1Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,627 · ~11/day · ~320/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28630 days

1K90 days

3.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on117 r2u9 autocran155 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pwt8 adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10.0

Imports (0)

none

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 (1)

Achim Zeileis

Author, Maintainer since 8.0-0 (2013)

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Package metadata

First published: 2013-07-28
Total releases: 3 / 13 yrs
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10.0
Bundled data: 2.0 MB / 3 files
Download size: 2.0 MB

Appears in task views

Econometrics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pwt8")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pwt8 version 8.1-1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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