R Observatory: Metrics for pxweb version 0.17.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pxweb

0.17.0

R Interface to PXWEB APIs

4packages depend

19.3Kdownloads / year

88.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Mans MagnussonFirst published 2014-09-0419 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Generic interface for the PX-Web/PC-Axis API. The PX-Web/PC-Axis API is used by organizations such as Statistics Sweden and Statistics Finland to disseminate data. The R package can interact with all PX-Web/PC-Axis APIs to fetch information about the data hierarchy, extract metadata and extract and parse statistics to R data.frame format. PX-Web is a solution to disseminate PC-Axis data files in dynamic tables on the web. Since 2013 PX-Web contains an API to disseminate PC-Axis files.

Install

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

install.packages("pxweb", 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("rOpenGov/pxweb")

Development version from rOpenGov/pxweb. 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-pxweb

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-pxweb

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-pxweb

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.44

88.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

4

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
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 42%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 25%
References docs: 2%

Downloads

19.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,141 · ~53/day · ~1.6K/mo

Releases R versions

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1.2K30 days

3.8K90 days

19.3K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ropengov/pxweb

73Stars

32Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

15Releases

1,159Commits

25Contributors

1,159 commits · Last activity 2026-07-17 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-02 · 672026-07-07 · 73

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ropengov/pxweb on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (4)

checkmate curl httr jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

digest httptest knitr remotes rmarkdown testthat (>= 0.11)xml2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

BFS PxWebApiData mongolstats pixieweb

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (12)

Maintainer (1)

Mans Magnusson

Author, Maintainer

Authors (4)

Mans Magnusson

Author, Maintainer

Janne Huovari

Author · added in 0.6.37

Markus Kainu

Author · added in 0.9.1

Leo Lahti

Author

Contributors (8)

Sebastian Ankargren

Contributor · added in 0.11.0

Love Hansson

Contributor

Pyry Kantanen

Contributor · added in 0.10.4

Torbjörn Lindquist

Contributor · added in 0.6.37

Eydun Nielsen

Contributor · added in 0.6.37

Thomas Runarsson

Contributor · added in 0.6.37

Palmar Thorsteinsson

Contributor · added in 0.6.37

Bo Werth

Contributor · added in 0.6.37

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Jan Bruusgaard

no longer listed · 0.9.1 to 0.11.0

Øyvind Langsrud

no longer listed · 0.9.1 to 0.11.0

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-01-24
policy violation On Internet access
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-09-04
Total releases: 19 / 12 yrs
License: BSD_2_clause + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 2.5 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Magnusson, M., Ankargren, S., Hansson, L., Huovari, J., Kainu, M., Kantanen, P., Lahti, L., Lindquist, T., Nielsen, E., Runarsson, T., Thorsteinsson, P., & Werth, B. (2024). pxweb: R Interface to PXWEB APIs (Version 0.17.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pxweb

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pxweb version 0.17.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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