R Observatory: Metrics for economiccomplexity version 2.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

economiccomplexity

2.1.0Package record

Computational Methods for Economic Complexity

0packages depend

5Kdownloads / year

95.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mauricio Vargas SepulvedaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A wrapper of different methods from Linear Algebra for the equations introduced in The Atlas of Economic Complexity and related literature. This package provides standard matrix and graph output that can be used seamlessly with other packages. See doi:10.21105/joss.01866 for a summary of these methods and its evolution in literature.

Changes in 2.1.0

Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
Uses cpp4r/armadillo4r to avoid a cpp11-related 'rchk' CRAN warning

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("economiccomplexity", 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("pachadotdev/economiccomplexity")

Development version from pachadotdev/economiccomplexity. 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-economiccomplexity

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-economiccomplexity

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-economiccomplexity

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

Additional issues

rchk

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.4 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.1.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 2.1.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Description cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 16 (4 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%11 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 89%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 89%
Help pages citing references: 50% with a bibliography file

Vignettes (1)

How To Use This Package HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,707 · ~14/day · ~415/mo

Releases R versions

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49730 days

1.3K90 days

5K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

pachadotdev/economiccomplexity ↗Account: pachadotdev

41Stars

11Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

141Commits

10Commit identities

rmatrixeigenvalueseigenvectorsrecursive-algorithmnetworksgraphsinternational-trade

License file reads as Apache-2.0 · 141 commits · Last activity 2026-02-18 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 5
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-27 · 392026-07-07 · 41

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

14 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/pachadotdev/economiccomplexity 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

Governance and community (3)

Code of conductFunding

Funding links: buymeacoffee.com

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-02-18

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

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CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (2)

VS CodeRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing economiccomplexity adds 13 packages (7 with compiled code, 11 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: igraph 4.8 MB, rbibutils 1.1 MB, armadillo4r 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (2)

igraph Rdpack

LinkingTo (2)

cpp4r armadillo4r

Suggests (6)

testthat knitr ggplot2 ggraph rmarkdown covr

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 (6)

Mauricio Vargas Sepulveda

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 1.5.0

Carlo Bottai

Contributor

improved the eigenvalues calculation

Diego Kozlowski

Contributor

provided initial RCA function used up to v0.2.4

Nico Pintar

Reviewer · added in 0.1.2

suggested improvements to special cases in eigenvalues calculation

Open Trade Statistics

Data contributor · added in 0.2

World Trade dataset

The World Bank

Data contributor

World GDP per capita dataset

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2019)

Listed in earlier versions (3)

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Mark Padgham

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.2.3

UN COMTRADE

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.1.2

Mauricio Vargas

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 1.4.0

Releases (12)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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complexity

added 4 exports
balassa_index, complexity_measures, complexity_outlook, productivity_levels
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2019-11-24 · diff ↗ ·
removed 6 exports
ec_complexity_measures, ec_countries_position, ec_networks, ec_productivity_levels, ec_proximity, ec_rca

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complexity, projections, proximity, rca
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complexity_measures, countries_position, networks, productivity_levels, proximity, revealed_comparative_advantage

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ec_complexity_measures, ec_countries_position, ec_networks, ec_productivity_levels, ec_proximity, ec_rca
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-07-02
Total releases: 12 / 7 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2) · relicensed from GPL-3 in 2.0.0
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 1.1 MB / 3 files
Download size: 3.1 MB

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citation("economiccomplexity")

Format

Vargas Sepulveda, M., Bottai, C., Kozlowski, D., Open Trade Statistics, , Pintar, N., & The World Bank, . (2026). economiccomplexity: Computational Methods for Economic Complexity (Version 2.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.economiccomplexity

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for economiccomplexity version 2.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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