R Observatory: Metrics for wid version 0.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

wid

0.0.3Package record

Download Data from the World Inequality Database

0packages depend

3.6Kdownloads / year

82.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ignacio FloresCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Download data from the online World Inequality Database directly into R. Data are retrieved from WID.world's online data service. The World Inequality Database is an extensive source on the historical evolution of the distribution of income and wealth both within and between countries. It relies on the combined effort of an international network of over a hundred researchers covering more than seventy countries from all continents.

Changes in 0.0.3

Breaking changes

Renamed the observation-level and country-series quality fields to data_quality and avg_quality, respectively.
Renamed the score_filter argument to quality_filter. The former name is not retained as an alias. Named filters accept only data_quality and avg_quality.

Improvements

Every standard download_wid() result now includes data_quality.
Metadata results include both data_quality and avg_quality; filtering on avg_quality without requesting full metadata returns the standard schema plus avg_quality.
Empty API and metadata responses preserve the documented output schemas, and unavailable quality values are represented by NA.

Show all changes in 0.0.3Hide the rest of the changes in 0.0.3

Updated tests, help, and the PDF demonstration for the new quality fields.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("wid", 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("world-inequality-database/wid-r-tool")

Development version from world-inequality-database/wid-r-tool. 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-wid

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-wid

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-wid

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-macos-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 0.0.3

READMEYes · 130 wordsVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.0.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 10
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,177 · ~10/day · ~299/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36030 days

1.2K90 days

3.6K1 year

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Also on75 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

world-inequality-database/wid-r-tool ↗Organization: world-inequality-database

7Stars

3Forks

2Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

49Commits

5Commit identities

49 commits · Last activity 2026-02-23 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (0.0.1) than CRAN on 2026-10-21

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 67%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-07-29 · 62026-08-11 · 7

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/world-inequality-database/wid-r-tool on 2026-10-21.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing wid adds 11 packages (9 with compiled code, 5.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (4)

httr base64enc plyr jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

testthat knitr rmarkdown dplyr ggplot2 scales tidyverse

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Ignacio Flores

Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2026)

Thomas Blanchet

Author

Releases (3)

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Package metadata

First published: 2026-02-20
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 22 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("wid")

Format

Flores, I., & Blanchet, T. (2026). wid: Download Data from the World Inequality Database (Version 0.0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.wid

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for wid version 0.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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