R Observatory: Metrics for stats19 version 4.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

stats19

4.1.0Package record

Work with Open Road Traffic Casualty Data from Great Britain

0packages depend

10.2Kdownloads / year

0.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Robin LovelaceCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: RAC Foundation

Work with and download road traffic casualty data from Great Britain. Enables access to the UK's official road safety statistics, 'STATS19'. Enables users to specify a download directory for the data, which can be set permanently by adding `STATS19_DOWNLOAD_DIRECTORY=/path/to/a/dir` to your `.Renviron` file, which can be opened with `usethis::edit_r_environ()`. The data is provided as a series of `.csv` files. This package downloads, reads-in and formats the data, making it suitable for analysis. See the stats19 vignette for details. Data available from 1979 to 2025. See the official data series at https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/cb7ae6f0-4be6-4935-9277-47e5ce24a11f/road-accidents-safety-data. The package is described in a paper in the Journal of Open Source Software (Lovelace et al. 2019) doi:10.21105/joss.01181. See Gilardi et al. (2022) doi:10.1111/rssa.12823, Vidal-Tortosa et al. (2021) doi:10.1016/j.jth.2021.101291, Tait et al. (2023) doi:10.1016/j.aap.2022.106895, and León et al. (2025) doi:10.18637/jss.v114.i09 for examples of how the data can be used for methodological and empirical research.

Changes in 4.1.0

**Support for 2025 Data**: Full support for the newly published 2025 STATS19 casualty, vehicle, and collision dataset from the Department for Transport (fixes #315).
**Documentation and Dataset Updates**: Updated dataset list, documentation, examples, and metadata for 1979-2025 coverage (fixes #315).
**Citation Prompt on Attach**: Added package citation details (Lovelace et al. 2019) and citation("stats19") instructions to the package startup message.
**Bug Fixes & Data Quality Improvements**:
Preserved character class for alphanumeric collision indices, avoiding NA coercions (fixes #231).
Eliminated unmatched parser warnings during dataset loading (fixes #257).
Ensured valid POSIXct datetime creation for midnight 00:00 timestamps (fixes #236).
Enhanced vehicle make cleaning rules for Freight Rover and Austin Morris (fixes #296).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("stats19", 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("ropensci/stats19")

Development version from ropensci/stats19. 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-stats19

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-stats19

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-stats19

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: 4.0 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 4.1.0

READMEYes · 1,985 wordsVignettesYes · 9 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 4.1.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 35
Examples that run: 36%9 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition) · 13 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 2 never run · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 77%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 12%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (9)

How these are measured

Downloads

10.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,052 · ~28/day · ~853/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

83230 days

2.2K90 days

10.2K1 year

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Also on120 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/stats19 ↗Organization: ropensci

74Stars

22Forks

14Open issues

5Open PRs

18Releases

1,057Commits

18Commit identities

rr-packagerstats

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 1,057 commits · Last activity 2026-10-11 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 4.2.0, ahead of CRAN 4.1.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 92%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-10-07 · 652026-09-20 · 74

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/stats19 on 2026-10-18.

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 (2)

Code of conduct (inherited from ropensci)Contributing guide

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-30

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-30, before release 4.1.0 (2026-07-31)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 4 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

data-raw/Dev Container

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (2)

codemeta.jsonJOSS paper

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-01-28
Pull request: opened by its own account
Commits: at least 3 crediting it in the message
Claude Codefirst seen 2026-07-31
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

30 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing stats19 adds 39 packages (26 with compiled code, 27 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (8)

sf curl readr tibble dplyr lubridate jsonlite glue

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (22)

duckdb DBI ggplot2 knitr rmarkdown stringr testthat (>= 2.1.0)tidyr tidyselect pkgdown kableExtra leaflet geojsonsf htmltools tmap spatstat.geom osmdata covr readODS gt clock waldo

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (10)

Robin Lovelace

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2019)

Roger Beecham

Author · added in 4.1.0

Layik Hama

Author

Blaise Kelly

Author · added in 3.4.0

Malcolm Morgan

Author

Mark Padgham

Author

Adam Sparks

Reviewer, Contributor

Ivo Wengraf

Contributor · added in 1.2.0

RAC Foundation

Funder · added in 1.1.0

David Ranzolin

Reviewer

Releases (22)

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4.1.0Latest
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2026-07-31 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
4.0.0
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2026-03-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 9 exports
clean_make, clean_make_model, clean_model, extract_make_stats19, get_url, locate_files, match_tag, select_file, set_data_directory
3.4.0
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added 1 export
get_data_directory
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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removed 2 exports
format_accidents, read_accidents

added 2 exports
format_collisions, read_collisions
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-10-30
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2021-10-20
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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get_ULEZ
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2021-03-15
1.4.0
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added 1 export
get_stats19_adjustments
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-03-14
check problems were not corrected in time
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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format_ppp, get_MOT
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-01-18
Total releases: 22 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 351 KB / 12 files
Download size: 3.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("stats19")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.21105/joss.01181.

Cite the R Observatory

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for stats19 version 4.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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