R Observatory: Metrics for rurality version 0.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rurality

0.1.1Package record

Classification and Scoring of U.S. County and ZIP Code Rurality

0packages depend

2.3Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Cameron WimpyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides USDA Rural-Urban Continuum Codes (RUCC 2023), Rural-Urban Commuting Area codes (RUCA 2020), and a composite rurality score for all U.S. counties. Functions enable lookup by FIPS code, ZIP code, or county name, and easy merging with existing datasets. Data sources include the USDA Economic Research Service, U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, and Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Changes in 0.1.1

Data-correctness patch (2026-04-13).

Bug fixes

county_rurality: distances to the nearest large/medium/small metro were computed against an incomplete metro list (15 large / 9 medium / 5 small). Counties near any large metro outside the top 15 — Denver, Minneapolis, Portland, Las Vegas, Charlotte, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Kansas City, Austin, San Antonio, Nashville, Jacksonville, Oklahoma City, Memphis, Louisville, and others — were being measured to New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles and classified as "Suburban" rather than "Urban". Example: Denver County shipped with dist_large_metro = 591, classified Suburban.
Rebuilt with a full metro list shared with the rurality-app web project (52 large / 57 medium / 36 small). After this patch the major urban-core counties (Denver, Hennepin, Multnomah, Mecklenburg, Cuyahoga, Marion-IN, and similar) classify as Urban.

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Data

county_rurality: 3,235 rows, unchanged schema. Score distribution (Urban / Suburban / Mixed / Rural / Very Rural): 184 / 908 / 669 / 976 / 498.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("rurality", 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("cwimpy/rurality")

Development version from cwimpy/rurality. 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-rurality

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-rurality

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-rurality

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: 1.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-07
OK5 OK2026-04-11

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Documentation

In release 0.1.1

READMEYes · 314 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.1Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes

Help pages: 8
Examples that run: 100%7 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Getting Started with rurality HTML

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2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,394 · ~6/day · ~195/mo

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cwimpy/rurality ↗Account: cwimpy

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19 commits · Last activity 2026-04-22 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.2.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.1.1 (checked 2026-10-21)

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

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Dependencies

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9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rurality adds 17 packages (10 with compiled code, 16 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, dplyr 902 KB.

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R >= 4.1.0

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Cameron Wimpy

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2026)

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Package metadata

First published: 2026-04-10
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 342 KB / 2 files
Download size: 414 KB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rurality version 0.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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