R Observatory: Metrics for wru version 3.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

wru

3.1.0Package record

Who are You? Bayesian Prediction of Racial Category Using Surname, First Name, Middle Name, and Geolocation

0packages dependsuggested by 1

7.6Kdownloads / year

46.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Brandon BertelsenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Predicts individual race/ethnicity using surname, first name, middle name, geolocation, and other attributes, such as gender and age. The method utilizes Bayes' Rule (with optional measurement error correction) to compute the posterior probability of each racial category for any given individual. The package implements methods described in Imai and Khanna (2016) "Improving Ecological Inference by Predicting Individual Ethnicity from Voter Registration Records" Political Analysis DOI:10.1093/pan/mpw001 and Imai, Olivella, and Rosenman (2022) "Addressing census data problems in race imputation via fully Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding and name supplements" DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adc9824. The package also incorporates the data described in Rosenman, Olivella, and Imai (2023) "Race and ethnicity data for first, middle, and surnames" DOI:10.1038/s41597-023-02202-2.

Install

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

install.packages("wru", 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("kosukeimai/wru")

Development version from kosukeimai/wru. 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-wru

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-wru

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-wru

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: 4.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-14
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-10-12
OK13 OK2026-09-23
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-19
OK13 OK2026-08-04

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NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-07
OK13 OK2026-05-08
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-29
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-28
NOTE9 OK, 5 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR8 OK, 5 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE9 OK, 5 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.1.0

READMEYes · 1,780 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 32 (22 internal)
Examples that run: 40%6 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 8 never run
Exported functions with examples: 80%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 60%
Help pages citing references: 13%

How these are measured

Downloads

7.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,052 · ~21/day · ~630/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

59630 days

1.7K90 days

7.6K1 year

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Also on429 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

kosukeimai/wru ↗Account: kosukeimai

142Stars

33Forks

1Open issues

1Open PRs

24Releases

561Commits

21Commit identities

561 commits · Last activity 2026-10-06 · +0.7% stars, 30d · Default branch at 4.0.0, ahead of CRAN 3.1.0 (checked 2026-10-25)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 76%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 17
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-09-11 · 1342026-09-28 · 142

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/kosukeimai/wru on 2026-10-25.

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 (1)

README.Rmd

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing wru adds 65 packages (38 with compiled code, 45 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 4.1.0utils

Imports (8)

cli dplyr furrr piggyback PL94171 purrr Rcpp rlang

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (6)

covr future reticulate testthat tidycensus tidyr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

birdie

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (7)

Brandon Bertelsen

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2022) · added in 1.0.0

Noah Dasanaike

Author · added in 3.1.0

Kosuke Imai

Author

Kabir Khanna

Author

Santiago Olivella

Author · added in 1.0.0

Evan Rosenman

Author · added in 1.0.0

Alexander Rossell Hayes

Author · added in 3.0.2

Previously maintained by Kabir Khanna (0.0-1 to 0.1-12).

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Hubert Jin

no longer listed · 0.1-2 to 0.1-7

Alex Rossell Hayes

no longer listed · 3.0.0 to 3.0.1

Releases (21)

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3.1.0Latest
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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removed 6 exports
census_geo_api, census_helper, get_census_api, get_census_api_2, merge_surnames, vec_to_chunk

added 1 export
format_legacy_data
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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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removed 10 exports
census.helper.api, census.helper.api.local, census.helper.api.online, censusData, getCensusApi, getCensusApi2, getCensusData, name.clean, race.pred, vecToChunk

added 8 exports
census_geo_api, census_helper, get_census_api, get_census_api_2, get_census_data, merge_surnames, predict_race, vec_to_chunk
0.1-1
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added 4 exports
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-12-09
Total releases: 21 / 11 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 3.4 MB / 4 files
Download size: 4.4 MB

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("wru")

Format

Bertelsen, B., Dasanaike, N., Imai, K., Khanna, K., Olivella, S., Rosenman, E., & Rossell Hayes, A. (2026). wru: Who are You? Bayesian Prediction of Racial Category Using Surname, First Name, Middle Name, and Geolocation (Version 3.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.wru

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for wru version 3.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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