R Observatory: Metrics for unicefData version 2.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

unicefData

2.3.0Package record

Download Indicators from UNICEF Data Warehouse

0packages depend

1.8Kdownloads / year

8.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Joao Pedro AzevedoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

An R client to fetch SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange) CSV series from the UNICEF Data Warehouse https://data.unicef.org/. Part of a trilingual suite also available for 'Python' and 'Stata'. Features include automatic pagination, caching with memoisation, country name lookups, metadata versioning (vintages), and comprehensive indicator support for SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) monitoring.

Changes in 2.3.0

CRAN Compliance

Moved cache directory from .unicef_cache/ to tempdir() for CRAN policy compliance
All cached files now written to session-specific temporary directory
Cache automatically cleaned up at R session end
Updated DESCRIPTION file per CRAN reviewer feedback (Benjamin Altmann)
Fixed LICENSE file format
Added CRAN submission comments in cran-comments.md

Testing

All R CMD check tests passing (0 errors | 0 warnings | 2 notes)
Tested on R-hub builder (Windows/Linux/macOS)
328+ automated tests across 11 test families

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("unicefData", 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("unicef-drp/unicefData")

Development version from unicef-drp/unicefData. 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-unicefdata

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-unicefData

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-unicefData

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

Additional issues

donttest

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.4 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 2.3.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 2 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.3.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 128 (51 internal)
Examples that run: 9%2 run in a plain check · 14 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 7 never run
Exported functions with examples: 30%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

1.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #23,812 · ~5/day · ~147/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

17630 days

54190 days

1.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on47 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

unicef-drp/unicefdata ↗Organization: unicef-drp

38Stars

17Forks

2Open issues

3Open PRs

9Releases

497Commits

5Commit identities

apichildrenofficial-statisticsreproducible-researchsdgsdmxautomationglobal-monitoring

497 commits · Last activity 2026-04-21 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.4.1, ahead of CRAN 2.3.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 74%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 35
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-12-30 · 12026-08-27 · 38

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/unicef-drp/unicefdata on 2026-10-21.

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 (1)

Contributing guide

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-01-07
Pull request: opened by its own account
Commits: 2 by its own account
Claude Codefirst seen 2026-02-01
Commits: at least 52 crediting it in the message

From outside contributors

Claude Code
Pull requests: 7 from outside contributors, first on 2026-03-21

Models named in its commits

Claude Sonnet 4.625 commits · Mar to Apr 2026
Claude Opus 4.511 commits · Feb 2026
Claude Opus 4.611 commits · Feb to Mar 2026
Claude Sonnet 4.55 commits · Feb 2026

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

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing unicefData adds 44 packages (28 with compiled code, 24 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (15)

httr readr dplyr tibble xml2 memoise countrycode yamltoolsjsonlite magrittr purrr rlang digest tidyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Joao Pedro Azevedo

Author, Maintainer since 2.3.0 (2026)

Karen Avanesian

Contributor

Yang Liu

Contributor

Lucas Rodrigues

Contributor

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.3.0Latest
record
2026-03-03 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-03
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 333 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("unicefData")

Format

Azevedo, J. P., Avanesian, K., Liu, Y., & Rodrigues, L. (2026). unicefData: Download Indicators from UNICEF Data Warehouse (Version 2.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.unicefData

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

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 unicefData version 2.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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