R Observatory: Metrics for votesmart version 0.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

votesmart

0.1.2Package record

Wrapper for the Project 'VoteSmart' API

0packages depend

2.2Kdownloads / year

1.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Amanda DobbynCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Deck Technologies

An R interface to the Project 'VoteSmart'https://justfacts.votesmart.org/ API.

Install

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

install.packages("votesmart", 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("decktools/votesmart")

Development version from decktools/votesmart. 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-votesmart

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-votesmart

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-votesmart

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: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.2

READMEYes · 1,483 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · does not mention 0.1.2Citation fileNo

Help pages: 18 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%13 never run
Exported functions with examples: 87%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

votesmart HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,656 · ~6/day · ~180/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

19130 days

65090 days

2.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on72 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

decktools/votesmart ↗Organization: decktools

5Stars

2Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

143Commits

3Commit identities

143 commits · Last activity 2023-05-01

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-11-24 · 52026-07-07 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/decktools/votesmart on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (2)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2020-03-13

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing votesmart adds 30 packages (20 with compiled code, 22 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2

Imports (10)

dplyr glue httr jsonlite lubridate magrittr purrr (>= 0.3.3)snakecase stringr tidyr (>= 1.0.2)

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

conflicted covr knitr rmarkdown spelling testthat vcr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Amanda Dobbyn

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2021)

Alyssa Frazee

Author

Max Wood

Author

Deck Technologies

Copyright holder, Funder

Releases (2)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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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2021-02-22
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-02-22
Total releases: 2 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2
Bundled data: 2.2 KB / 2 files
Download size: 310 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("votesmart")

Format

Dobbyn, A., Deck Technologies, Frazee, A., & Wood, M. (2023). votesmart: Wrapper for the Project 'VoteSmart' API (Version 0.1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.votesmart

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 votesmart version 0.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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