R Observatory: Metrics for validatetools version 0.6.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

validatetools

0.6.1Package record

Checking and Simplifying Validation Rule Sets

0packages depend

3.3Kdownloads / year

90.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Edwin de JongeCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Rule sets with validation rules may contain redundancies or contradictions. Functions for finding redundancies and problematic rules are provided, given a set a rules formulated with 'validate'.

Changes in 0.6.1

added a fix when categorical variables where used, without a rule that specified the domain. (issue #15) Thanks to

Romina Filippini and Simona Toti for reporting.

added a new function detect_contradicting_if_rules. (issue #16) It detects all rules that are not satisfiable together with the if condition. Thanks to Romina Filippini and Simona Toti for the suggestion.
added a verbose argument to most functions, which allows to print more information about the detection or simplification process.
fix for is_contradicted_by and detect_infeasible_rules when the rules contained

if statements.

added extra simplification for conditional statements (issue #10)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("validatetools", 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("data-cleaning/validatetools")

Development version from data-cleaning/validatetools. 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-validatetools

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-validatetools

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-validatetools

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: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.6.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.6.1Citation fileNo

Help pages: 24 (5 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%17 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 94%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 78%
Help pages citing references: 13%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,898 · ~9/day · ~276/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31630 days

1K90 days

3.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on95 r2u1 autocran129 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

data-cleaning/validatetools ↗Organization: data-cleaning

16Stars

3Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

191Commits

2Commit identities

rdata-cleaningvalidationrules

191 commits · Last activity 2025-12-10

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-03-30 · 162026-07-07 · 16

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/data-cleaning/validatetools 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

Docs source (3)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-12-10 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing validatetools adds 4 packages (3 with compiled code, 3.3 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: validate 2.7 MB, lpSolveAPI 479 KB, yaml 106 KB.

Depends (2)

R >= 4.1.0validate

Imports (4)

methodsstatsutilslpSolveAPI

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Edwin de Jonge

Author, Maintainer since 0.4.1 (2017)

Mark van der Loo

Author

Jacco Daalmans

Contributor

Releases (7)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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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2017-11-03

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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-03
Total releases: 7 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 33 KB

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de Jonge, E., Daalmans, J., & van der Loo, M. (2025). validatetools: Checking and Simplifying Validation Rule Sets (Version 0.6.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.validatetools

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for validatetools version 0.6.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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