R Observatory: Metrics for wpp2017 version 1.2-3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

wpp2017

1.2-3Package record

World Population Prospects 2017

2packages dependsuggested by 4

12.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hana SevcikovaCRAN page ↗Website ↗

Provides data from the United Nation's World Population Prospects 2017.

Install

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

install.packages("wpp2017", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-wpp2017

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-wpp2017

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-wpp2017

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Hana Sevcikova <hanas@uw.edu>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("United", "Nations", "Population"),
                      family = "Division",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Hana",
                      family = "Sevcikova",
                      role = "cre",
                      email = "hanas@uw.edu"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE9 OK, 5 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2-3

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 9includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%8 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: not tracked
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

12.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,962 · ~33/day · ~1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

77730 days

2.3K90 days

12.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on172 r2u4 autocran181 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing wpp2017 adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 5.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.14.2

Imports (1)

data.table

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

2indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 1

Suggested by 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

socialmixr MortCast

Suggests, most downloaded first

bayesTFR bayesLife bayesPop wppExplorer

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (1)

United Nations Population Division

· added in 1.1-2

Maintainer since 1.0-1 (2017)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Hana Sevcikova

no longer listed · 1.0-1 to 1.1-1

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-06-29
Total releases: 7 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.14.2
Bundled data: 11 MB / 93 files
Download size: 4.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("wpp2017")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for wpp2017 version 1.2-3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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