R Observatory: Metrics for validate version 1.1.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

validate

1.1.7Package record

Data Validation Infrastructure

7packages dependsuggested by 4

37.6Kdownloads / year

87.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mark van der LooCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Declare data validation rules and data quality indicators; confront data with them and analyze or visualize the results. The package supports rules that are per-field, in-record, cross-record or cross-dataset. Rules can be automatically analyzed for rule type and connectivity. Supports checks implied by an SDMX DSD file as well. See also Van der Loo and De Jonge (2018) doi:10.1002/9781118897126, Chapter 6 and the JSS paper (2021) doi:10.18637/jss.v097.i10.

Changes in 1.1.7

updated the ECB SDMX REST API endpoint
Fix in test that wrote to illegal place (thanks to Kurt Hornik for pointing this out)

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("validate", 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("data-cleaning/validate")

Development version from data-cleaning/validate. 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-validate

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-validate

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-validate

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: 3.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.7

READMENoVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.7Citation fileYes · cites a publication

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 80 (13 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 98%47 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 73%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 57%
Help pages citing references: 8%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

37.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,310 · ~103/day · ~3.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.9K30 days

7.4K90 days

37.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on672 r2u5 autocran7K conda_forge185 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

data-cleaning/validate ↗Organization: data-cleaning

434Stars

42Forks

50Open issues

2Open PRs

0Releases

823Commits

18Commit identities

rvalidationdata-cleaning

823 commits · Last activity 2025-12-10 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 84%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 22
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 4

Stars over time

2025-10-10 · 4252026-08-20 · 434

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/data-cleaning/validate on 2026-10-21.

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-12-10

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing validate adds 2 packages (1 with compiled code, 135 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: yaml 106 KB, settings 29 KB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0methods

Imports (5)

statsgraphicsgridsettings yaml

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

rsdmx tinytest knitr bookdown lumberjack rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

7direct

0indirect

Depends 2 · Imports 5

Suggested by 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

errorlocate rspa deductive dcmodify validatetools One4All validatesuggest

Suggests, most downloaded first

VIM datamods iNZightTools accumulate

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Mark van der Loo

Maintainer since 0.1.2 (2015), Author

Edwin de Jonge

Author

Paul Hsieh

Contributor

Releases (21)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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added 5 exports
estat_codelist, global_codelist, sdmx_codelist, sdmx_endpoint, validator_from_dsd
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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added 24 exports
add_indicators, contains_at_least, contains_at_most, contains_exactly, do_by, does_not_contain, field_format, field_length, glob, hb, hierarchy, in_linear_sequence, in_range, is_linear_sequence, lacking, max_by, mean_by, min_by, number_format, part_whole_relation, rx, satisfying, sum_by, violating
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

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0.9.3
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2019-12-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
exists_any, exists_one
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added 8 exports
all_complete, all_unique, event, is_complete, is_unique, keyset, run_validation_dir, run_validation_file
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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removed 1 export
number_missing
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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length

added 3 exports
as.data.frame, lbj_cells, lbj_rules
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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2016-04-15 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
validate_reset

added 9 exports
.PKGOPT, .blocks_expressionset, .get_exprs, .ini_expressionset_cli, .ini_expressionset_yml, .show_expressionset, expr, reset, voptions
0.1.3
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-09-01
Total releases: 21 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 135 KB / 4 files
Download size: 2.7 MB

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Official Statistics & Survey Statistics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("validate")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.18637/jss.v097.i10.

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 validate version 1.1.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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