R Observatory: Metrics for MexicoDataAPI version 0.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MexicoDataAPI

0.3.0Package record

Access Mexican Data via APIs and Curated Datasets

0packages depend

5.3Kdownloads / year

71.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Renzo Caceres RossiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides functions to access data from public RESTful APIs including 'World Bank API', and 'Nager.Date API', covering Mexico's economic indicators, population statistics, literacy rates, and official public holidays. The package also includes curated datasets related to Mexico such as air quality monitoring stations, pollution zones, income surveys, postal abbreviations, election studies, forest productivity and demographic data by state. It supports research and analysis focused on Mexico by integrating reliable global APIs with structured national datasets drawn from open and academic sources. For more information on the APIs, see: 'World Bank API' https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/889392, and 'Nager.Date API' https://date.nager.at/Api.

Changes in 0.3.0

Breaking Changes

get_country_info_mx() was removed from the package. The 'REST Countries API' v3.1 endpoint it depended on was deprecated by its provider. The replacement v5 endpoint now requires an API key, which is incompatible with CRAN's policy on packages using Internet resources (they must work without user-provided credentials). As a consequence, the 'REST Countries API' is no longer used by MexicoDataAPI.

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From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("MexicoDataAPI", 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("lightbluetitan/mexicodataapi")

Development version from lightbluetitan/mexicodataapi. 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-mexicodataapi

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-MexicoDataAPI

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-MexicoDataAPI

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: 3.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-12
OK13 OK2026-05-05

Show 4 earlier changesHide 4 earlier changes

ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-30
OK13 OK2026-04-29
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-24
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.0

READMEYes · 326 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.0Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 18includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 75%6 run in a plain check (5 of them under a condition) · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 47%
Documented parameters: 10%
Return-value docs: 47%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

MexicoDataAPI: Access Mexican Data via APIs and Curated Datasets HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

5.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,215 · ~15/day · ~443/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

32630 days

95590 days

5.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on60 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

lightbluetitan/mexicodataapi ↗Account: lightbluetitan

4Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

5Commits

1Commit identities

5 commits · Last activity 2026-07-01 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-08-29 · 32026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/lightbluetitan/mexicodataapi on 2026-10-22.

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-01

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-01, before release 0.3.0 (2026-07-02)

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing MexicoDataAPI adds 27 packages (16 with compiled code, 11 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: farver 1.2 MB, viridisLite 1.2 MB, openssl 1.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (6)

utilshttr jsonlite dplyr scales tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

ggplot2 testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Renzo Caceres Rossi

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2025)

Releases (3)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.0Latest
record
2025-09-13 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
get_country_info_mx
0.2.0
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2025-09-14 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
get_country_info

added 2 exports
get_country_info_mx, get_mexico_holidays
0.1.0
record
2025-07-16
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-07-16
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 123 KB / 9 files
Download size: 303 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("MexicoDataAPI")

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

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 MexicoDataAPI version 0.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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