R Observatory: Metrics for datadiff version 0.6.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

datadiff

0.6.1Package record

Data Validation Based on 'YAML' Rules

0packages depend

3.1Kdownloads / year

98.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Vincent GuyaderCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A comprehensive data validation package that allows comparing datasets using configurable validation rules defined in 'YAML' files. Built on top of the 'pointblank' package for robust data validation, it supports exact matching, tolerance-based numeric comparisons, text normalization, and row count validation.

Changes in 0.6.1

Bug fixes

A tolerance rule (abs / rel) on a column that is not numeric in the reference was silently ignored: the column fell back to an exact string comparison while applied_rules still listed abs and rel, so the report suggested a comparison by value that never happened. {datadiff} never converts data, so the rule cannot be honoured: such a column now gets a dedicated, always failing check, tolerance_on_non_numeric: <column>, visible in the agent and in coverage like type_mismatch; a warning is raised when it is detected, the column takes part in no other check, and applied_rules no longer lists the rule that was not applied. This holds whatever the origin of the rule (by_name, or a by_type block such as by_type: character: abs: 0.1, which now fails every character column) and whatever the non-numeric type (character, date, datetime, logical). build_coverage() and setup_pointblank_agent() gain a tolerance_non_numeric_cols argument, default empty (issue #60).

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A comparison whose candidate or reference has no row could not carry a structural failure: on the local path adding the dummy column of a type_mismatch step errored ("replacement has 1 row, data has 0"), and on the lazy path with check_count: true the structural and row-count steps interrogated 0 units and passed, so all_passed was TRUE while coverage said FAIL. The structural steps (missing_column, type_mismatch, tolerance_on_non_numeric) are now table-wide col_exists() checks on a reserved, deliberately absent column: one unit, failing on any table, empty or not, which also aligns the agent with coverage (n = 1); a cmp that carries such a reserved name is refused. The row-count step still needs a row, so both paths seed one for the agent when the table is empty.
keys: [] in a rules file was read as an empty key and rejected before the data was even looked at ("Parameter 'key' must be a non-empty character vector"), although [] is the natural spelling of "no key" in a hand-written YAML. keys: [] and the legacy key: [] now mean "no key", exactly like an absent field or keys: ~: the comparison is positional. A present keys field now wins over a legacy key field whatever its value: keys: ~ next to key: [id] used to select id, it means "no key" like keys: [] does. The key argument of compare_datasets_from_yaml() and write_rules_template() is unchanged: an empty vector there is still an error, NULL is the way to ask for a positional comparison from R code (issue #59).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("datadiff", 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("ThinkR-open/datadiff")

Development version from ThinkR-open/datadiff. 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-datadiff

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-datadiff

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-datadiff

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-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK7 OK2026-03-19

Advisories

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Documentation

In release 0.6.1

READMEYes · 1,430 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.6.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 14
Examples that run: 100%11 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 92%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to datadiff HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,031 · ~9/day · ~262/mo

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37330 days

95790 days

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Repository

thinkr-open/datadiff ↗Organization: ThinkR-open

6Stars

0Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

91Commits

3Commit identities

91 commits · Last activity 2026-09-30 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 90
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-03-04 · 12026-07-07 · 6

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PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/thinkr-open/datadiff on 2026-10-22.

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

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RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen on or before 2026-03-03
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: 5 by its own account · at least 11 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Fable 53 commits · Jul 2026

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing datadiff adds 87 packages (41 with compiled code, 56 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, gt 3.3 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (6)

dplyr pointblank rlang tidyselectutilsyaml

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Suggests (11)

arrow DBI dbplyr duckdb gt knitr rmarkdown RSQLite stringr testthat tibble

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People & History

People (3)

Vincent Guyader

Maintainer since 0.4.4 (2026), Author

ThinkR

Copyright holder

Agence technique de l'information sur l'hospitalisation

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Releases (4)

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Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-18
Total releases: 4 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 169 KB

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citation("datadiff")

Format

Guyader, V., Agence technique de l'information sur l'hospitalisation, & ThinkR. (2026). datadiff: Data Validation Based on 'YAML' Rules (Version 0.6.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.datadiff

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for datadiff version 0.6.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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