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rscorecard

A Method to Download Department of Education College Scorecard Data

v0.33.0 · Mar 31, 2026 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

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.

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Code

Structure

Lines of code

2,130

Files

38

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 978 (45.9%)Tests 750 (35.2%)Docs 402 (18.9%)

API

Exported functions

10

Internal functions

5

Recent export changes

v0.8.0+2 sc_filter_, sc_select_

Testing & CI

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.12

testthat edition

CI present

No

CI type

[]

PR gated

No

Docs

Return-value doc rate

0%

\dontrun example ratio

62.5%

Roxygen coverage

100%

Has pkgdown

No

NEWS present

Yes

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

0%

Unsafe pattern score

2

Dep constraint coverage

0%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

4.1.0

System requirements

C++ standard

License

MIT + file LICENSE

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

35

First release

2016-03-26

Latest release

2026-03-31

Avg cadence

93 days

Cold removal rate

100%

Dep drift

8

LOC over versions

v0.2.4: 1,070 LOCv0.2.5: 1,070 LOCv0.2.8: 1,073 LOCv0.3.1: 1,088 LOCv0.3.5: 1,138 LOCv0.4.0: 1,143 LOCv0.5.0: 1,169 LOCv0.6.0: 1,245 LOCv0.7.0: 1,245 LOCv0.7.1: 1,245 LOCv0.8.0: 1,480 LOCv0.9.0: 1,462 LOCv0.10.0: 1,462 LOCv0.11.0: 1,462 LOCv0.11.1: 1,704 LOCv0.12.0: 1,704 LOCv0.13.0: 1,704 LOCv0.14.0: 1,816 LOCv0.15.0: 1,886 LOCv0.16.0: 1,886 LOCv0.17.0: 1,886 LOCv0.18.0: 1,886 LOCv0.19.1: 2,120 LOCv0.20.0: 2,120 LOCv0.21.0: 2,123 LOCv0.22.0: 2,123 LOCv0.23.0: 2,123 LOCv0.24.0: 2,123 LOCv0.26.0: 2,123 LOCv0.28.1: 2,130 LOCv0.29.0: 2,130 LOCv0.30.0: 2,130 LOCv0.31.0: 2,130 LOCv0.32.0: 2,130 LOCv0.33.0: 2,130 LOC

Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/cran-code-metrics.

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies dplyr httr jsonlite lazyeval tibble tidyselect tidyr purrr rscorecard

Version History

36 tracked
updated 0.33.0 ← 0.32.0 diff Mar 31, 2026
new 0.32.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.32.0 ← 0.31.0 diff May 11, 2025
updated 0.31.0 ← 0.30.0 diff Apr 8, 2025
updated 0.30.0 ← 0.29.0 diff Oct 22, 2024
updated 0.29.0 ← 0.28.1 diff Aug 29, 2024
updated 0.28.1 ← 0.26.0 diff May 28, 2024
updated 0.26.0 ← 0.24.0 diff Apr 27, 2023
updated 0.24.0 ← 0.23.0 diff Oct 19, 2022
updated 0.23.0 ← 0.22.0 diff Jul 4, 2022
updated 0.22.0 ← 0.21.0 diff Mar 22, 2022
updated 0.21.0 ← 0.20.0 diff Feb 7, 2022
updated 0.20.0 ← 0.19.1 diff Jul 27, 2021
updated 0.19.1 ← 0.18.0 diff Jul 19, 2021
updated 0.18.0 ← 0.17.0 diff Jan 12, 2021