AustralianPoliticians

0.1.0

Provides Datasets About Australian Politicians

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3.6Kdownloads / year

90.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Rohan AlexanderFirst published 2021-11-301 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides access to biographical and political data about Australian federal politicians who served between 1901 and 2021. This enhances how reproducible research is that uses this data.

Install

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

install.packages("AustralianPoliticians", 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("RohanAlexander/AustralianPoliticians")

Development version from RohanAlexander/AustralianPoliticians. 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-australianpoliticians

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# 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-AustralianPoliticians

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 56 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.19

90.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,325 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,210 · ~10/day · ~304/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ rohanalexander/australianpoliticians

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38 commits · Last activity 2021-12-01 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rohanalexander/australianpoliticians on 2026-07-19.

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (5)

dplyr readr purrrutilstibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

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Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Rohan Alexander

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Rohan Alexander

Author, Maintainer

Paul A. Hodgetts

Author

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2021-11-30
Total releases: 1 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 54 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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