R Observatory: Metrics for usdatasets version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

usdatasets

0.1.0Package record

A Comprehensive Collection of U.S. Datasets

0packages depend

6.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Renzo Caceres RossiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides a diverse collection of U.S. datasets encompassing various fields such as crime, economics, education, finance, energy, healthcare, and more. It serves as a valuable resource for researchers and analysts seeking to perform in-depth analyses and derive insights from U.S.-specific data.

Install

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

install.packages("usdatasets", 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/usdatasets")

Development version from lightbluetitan/usdatasets. 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-usdatasets

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-usdatasets

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-usdatasets

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: 1.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-16
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-07-15
OK12 OK2026-04-25

Show 1 earlier changeHide 1 earlier change

NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileYes · software entry only

Help pages: 64includes a package overview page
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 0%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

usdatasets: A Comprehensive Collection of U.S. Datasets HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

6.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,670 · ~17/day · ~505/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33530 days

1K90 days

6.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on100 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

lightbluetitan/usdatasets ↗Account: lightbluetitan

10Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

3Commits

1Commit identities

3 commits · Last activity 2024-10-08 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-08-30 · 82026-07-07 · 10

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/usdatasets on 2026-10-21.

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-10-08

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing usdatasets adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

ggplot2 dplyr knitr rmarkdown testthat

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 (2024)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Rossi

no longer listed · 0.1.0

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.0Latest
record
2024-10-08 · current release
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-10-08
Total releases: 1 / 2 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 1.2 MB / 63 files
Download size: 1.4 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("usdatasets")

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 usdatasets version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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