R Observatory: Metrics for states version 0.3.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

states

0.3.3

Create Panels of Independent States

0packages depend

5.7Kdownloads / year

84.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Andreas BegerFirst published 2018-02-237 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Create panel data consisting of independent states from 1816 to the present. The package includes the Gleditsch & Ward (G&W) and Correlates of War (COW) lists of independent states, as well as helper functions for working with state panel data and standardizing other data sources to create country-year/month/etc. data.

Install

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

install.packages("states", 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("andybega/states")

Development version from andybega/states. 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-states

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-states

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-states

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.48

84.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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WARNING2026-06-07
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OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 268 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 25%
References docs: 13%

Downloads

5.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,343 · ~16/day · ~473/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ andybega/states

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96Commits

1Contributors

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96 commits · Last activity 2025-08-25

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cran-comments.md

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (4)

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none

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Andreas Beger

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Andreas Beger

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Package Timeline

7 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2018-02-23
Total releases: 7 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 15 KB / 3 files
Download size: 194 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("states")

Format

Beger, A. (2025). states: Create Panels of Independent States (Version 0.3.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.states

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for states version 0.3.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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