R Observatory: Metrics for usdoj version 1.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

usdoj

1.1.2Package record

For Accessing U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Open Data

0packages depend

5.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Steph BuongiornoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Fetch data from the https://www.justice.gov/developer/api-documentation/api_v1 API such as press releases, blog entries, and speeches. Optional parameters allow users to specify the number of results starting from the earliest or latest entries, and whether these results contain keywords. Data is cleaned for analysis and returned in a dataframe.

Install

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

install.packages("usdoj", 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("ropengov/usdoj")

Development version from ropengov/usdoj. 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-usdoj

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-usdoj

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-usdoj

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: 1.2 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 1.1.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNo

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 0%2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,766 · ~16/day · ~473/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

29530 days

89090 days

5.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on63 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropengov/usdoj ↗Organization: rOpenGov

12Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

76Commits

1Commit identities

76 commits · Last activity 2025-09-07 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-10 · 112026-07-07 · 12

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropengov/usdoj on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (2)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-17 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing usdoj adds 27 packages (18 with compiled code, 35 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.4

Imports (6)

anytime dplyr httr jsonlite stringr tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

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)

Steph Buongiorno

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2023)

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1.2Latest
record
2025-05-14 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-03-24
1.1.1
record
2025-03-24 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
doj_speeches
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-11-17
policy violation On Internet access
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.1.0
record
2023-03-25 · diff ↗
1.0.0
record
2023-01-30
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-01-30
Total releases: 4 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.4
Download size: 3.8 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("usdoj")

Format

Buongiorno, S. (2025). usdoj: For Accessing U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Open Data (Version 1.1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.usdoj

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 usdoj version 1.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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