R Observatory: Metrics for wrds version 0.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

wrds

0.1.1Package record

Access 'Wharton Research Data Services' ('WRDS')

1packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

41.8%test coverage

10/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ulrich AtzCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides simple functions for accessing data from 'Wharton Research Data Services' ('WRDS'), a widely used financial database in academic research. Includes credential management via the system keyring, database tools, and functions for downloading generic tables, 'Compustat' fundamentals, and linking tables.

Changes in 0.1.1

list_subscriptions() lists subscribed data products.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("wrds", 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("statzhero/wrds")

Development version from statzhero/wrds. 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-wrds

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-wrds

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

3WARNING10OK

Check messages

WARNINGfor code/documentation mismatchesr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64

r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang

(process:481585): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 15:40:51.230: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(process:481954): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 15:40:52.897: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(process:482495): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 15:40:54.533: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

r-patched-linux-x86_64

(process:3359808): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 02:30:48.910: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(process:3360055): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 02:30:50.536: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(process:3360329): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 02:30:52.114: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

r-release-linux-x86_64

(process:177248): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 02:29:07.132: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(process:177502): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 02:29:08.409: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(process:177751): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 02:29:09.379: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

WARNINGfor missing documentation entriesr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64

r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang

(process:480893): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 15:40:49.717: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
All user-level objects in a package should have documentation entries.
See chapter ‘Writing R documentation files’ in the ‘Writing R
Extensions’ manual.

r-patched-linux-x86_64

(process:3359580): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 02:30:47.483: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
All user-level objects in a package should have documentation entries.
See chapter ‘Writing R documentation files’ in the ‘Writing R
Extensions’ manual.

r-release-linux-x86_64

(process:176474): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 02:29:05.707: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
All user-level objects in a package should have documentation entries.
See chapter ‘Writing R documentation files’ in the ‘Writing R
Extensions’ manual.

NOTEwhether startup messages can be suppressedr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64

r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang

(process:473534): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 15:40:25.092: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

It looks like this package (or a package it requires) has a startup
message which cannot be suppressed: see ?packageStartupMessage.

r-patched-linux-x86_64

(process:3352306): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 02:30:25.005: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

It looks like this package (or a package it requires) has a startup
message which cannot be suppressed: see ?packageStartupMessage.

r-release-linux-x86_64

(process:169887): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 02:28:44.074: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

It looks like this package (or a package it requires) has a startup
message which cannot be suppressed: see ?packageStartupMessage.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

WARNING10 OK, 3 WARNINGNow
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-10-17
OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08

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OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.1

READMEYes · 294 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.1Citation fileNo

Help pages: 19 (6 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 8%1 run in a plain check · 12 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 11%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,028 · ~7/day · ~228/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36930 days

95890 days

2.7K1 year

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Also on57 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

statzhero/wrds ↗Account: statzhero

2Stars

1Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

23Commits

2Commit identities

rr-packagewrdsrstats

23 commits · Last activity 2026-05-29 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.1.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.1.1 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 8
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2026-01-22 · 12026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/statzhero/wrds on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-05-29 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing wrds adds 36 packages (22 with compiled code, 22 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, RPostgres 1.4 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (8)

cli DBI dbplyr dplyr keyring rlang RPostgres tidylog

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

db2pq

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Ulrich Atz

Releases (2)

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0.1.1Latest
record
2026-05-11 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
list_libraries

added 2 exports
list_subscriptions, wrds_update_password
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.0.1
record
2026-01-19
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-19
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 45 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("wrds")

Format

Atz, U. (2026). wrds: Access 'Wharton Research Data Services' ('WRDS') (Version 0.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.wrds

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 wrds version 0.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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