R Observatory: Metrics for samadb version 0.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

samadb

0.3.1Package record

South Africa Macroeconomic Database API

0packages depend

64.6Kdownloads / year

17.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Sebastian KrantzCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

An R API providing access to a relational database with macroeconomic time series data for South Africa, obtained from the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and Statistics South Africa (STATSSA), and updated on a weekly basis via the EconData https://www.econdata.co.za/ platform and automated scraping of the SARB and STATSSA websites. The database is maintained at the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University.

Changes in 0.3.1

Fixed errors occurring when internet connection or certain datasets are not available (as demanded by CRAN).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("samadb", 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("Stellenbosch-Econometrics/SAMADB-Issues")

Development version from Stellenbosch-Econometrics/SAMADB-Issues. 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-samadb

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-samadb

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.2 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 0.3.1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 12includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 27%3 run in a plain check · 4 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 91%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

64.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,652 · ~177/day · ~5.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31330 days

78690 days

64.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on87 r2u43 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

stellenbosch-econometrics/samadb-issues ↗Organization: Stellenbosch-Econometrics

5Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

30Commits

1Commit identities

apimacroeconomic-indicatorsjuliaopen-datapythonrsouth-africadatabase

30 commits · Last activity 2024-08-20

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 38
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2024-03-22 · 52026-07-07 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/stellenbosch-econometrics/samadb-issues on 2026-10-18.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing samadb adds 6 packages (5 with compiled code, 10 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, collapse 1.4 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (5)

DBI RMySQL writexl data.table collapse

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

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)

Sebastian Krantz

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.6 (2023)

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-05-15
Total releases: 3 / 3 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 16 KB

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Time Series Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("samadb")

Format

Krantz, S. (2025). samadb: South Africa Macroeconomic Database API (Version 0.3.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.samadb

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for samadb version 0.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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