R Observatory: Metrics for refugees version 2025.12.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

refugees

2025.12.2Package record

UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics Database

0packages dependsuggested by 1

5.5Kdownloads / year

77.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Janis KreuderCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

The Refugee Population Statistics Database published by The Office of The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) contains information about forcibly displaced populations spanning more than 70 years of statistical activities. It covers displaced populations such as refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced people, including their demographics. Stateless people are also included, most of who have never been displaced. The database also reflects the different types of solutions for displaced populations such as repatriation or resettlement. More information on the data and methodology can be found on the UNHCR Refugee Data Finder https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/.

Changes in 2025.12.2

Correction for demographics data which was wrongly limited to 2025.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("refugees", 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("PopulationStatistics/refugees")

Development version from PopulationStatistics/refugees. 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-refugees

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-refugees

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-refugees

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.0 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 2025.12.2

READMEYes · 764 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2025.12.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 10 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%9 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: not tracked
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,242 · ~15/day · ~462/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

50230 days

1.4K90 days

5.5K1 year

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Also on212 r2u1 autocran62 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

populationstatistics/refugees ↗Organization: PopulationStatistics

11Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

72Commits

3Commit identities

License file reads as CC-BY-4.0 · 72 commits · Last activity 2026-09-09 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-08 · 92026-07-07 · 11

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/populationstatistics/refugees on 2026-10-21.

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-09

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing refugees adds 10 packages (7 with compiled code, 4.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (1)

tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

unhcrthemes

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Janis Kreuder

Maintainer since 2025.06.0 (2025) · added in 2025.06.0

Ahmadou Dicko

Author

Hisham Galal

Author

UNHCR

Copyright holder

Previously maintained by Hisham Galal (2022.12.0 to 2024.12.0).

Releases (11)

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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-07-08
Total releases: 11 / 3 yrs
License: CC BY 4.0
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 3.9 MB / 9 files
Download size: 3.9 MB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("refugees")

Format

Kreuder, J., UNHCR, Dicko, A., & Galal, H. (2026). refugees: UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics Database (Version 2025.12.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.refugees

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for refugees version 2025.12.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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