R Observatory: Metrics for rscorecard version 0.33.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rscorecard

0.33.0Package record

A Method to Download Department of Education College Scorecard Data

0packages depend

4.8Kdownloads / year

56.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Benjamin SkinnerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A method to download Department of Education College Scorecard data using the public API https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/data-documentation/. It is based on the 'dplyr' model of piped commands to select and filter data in a single chained function call. An API key from the U.S. Department of Education is required.

Changes in 0.33.0

update dictionary for 30 March 2026 release of data

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("rscorecard", 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("btskinner/rscorecard")

Development version from btskinner/rscorecard. 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-rscorecard

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-rscorecard

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-rscorecard

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: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.33.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.33.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 9 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 13%1 run in a plain check · 7 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,362 · ~13/day · ~397/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

48130 days

1.2K90 days

4.8K1 year

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Also on76 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

btskinner/rscorecard ↗Account: btskinner

30Stars

7Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

45Releases

175Commits

10Commit identities

reducation-college-scorecardhigher-education-datascorecard-dataapi-wrapper

175 commits · Last activity 2026-03-30 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 33%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 12
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 4

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 292026-09-20 · 30

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/btskinner/rscorecard on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-03-30 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-03-30, before release 0.33.0 (2026-03-31)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rscorecard adds 28 packages (19 with compiled code, 21 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (8)

dplyr httr jsonlite lazyeval tibble tidyselect tidyr purrr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Benjamin Skinner

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.4 (2016)

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-03-26
Total releases: 35 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 166 KB

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Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rscorecard")

Format

Skinner, B. (2026). rscorecard: A Method to Download Department of Education College Scorecard Data (Version 0.33.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rscorecard

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rscorecard version 0.33.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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