benford.analysis

0.1.5

Benford Analysis for Data Validation and Forensic Analytics

2packages depend

14.3Kdownloads / year

97.5%test coverage

9/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Carlos CinelliFirst published 2014-01-227 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides tools that make it easier to validate data using Benford's Law.

Install

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

install.packages("benford.analysis", 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("carloscinelli/benford.analysis")

Development version from carloscinelli/benford.analysis. 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-benford.analysis

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

# 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-benford.analysis

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-benford.analysis

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

Health

CRAN checks

4NOTE9OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.27

97.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-05-10
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-05-09
11 OK · 1 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 437 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 31%

Downloads

14.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,218 · ~39/day · ~1.2K/mo

Releases R versions

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14.3K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ carloscinelli/benford.analysis

65Stars

15Forks

9Open issues

1Open PRs

4Releases

124Commits

8Contributors

124 commits · Last activity 2019-09-07 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/carloscinelli/benford.analysis on 2026-07-30.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CIAppVeyor

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (1)

data.table

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

digitTests jfa

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (0)

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Listed in earlier versions (1)

Carlos Cinelli

no longer listed · 0.1 to 0.1.5

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Package metadata

First published: 2014-01-22
Total releases: 7 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Bundled data: 1.4 MB / 7 files
Download size: 1.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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