campfin

1.0.11

Wrangle Campaign Finance Data

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4.3Kdownloads / year

76.8%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Kiernan NichollsFirst published 2020-11-0510 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Explore and normalize American campaign finance data. Created by the Investigative Reporting Workshop to facilitate work on The Accountability Project, an effort to collect public data into a central, standard database that is more easily searched: https://publicaccountability.org/.

Install

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

install.packages("campfin", 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("irworkshop/campfin")

Development version from irworkshop/campfin. 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-campfin

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-campfin

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 3.5 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.40

76.8%

Coverage · measured lines

97%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
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OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 597 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 96%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

4.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,059 · ~12/day · ~362/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ irworkshop/campfin

17Stars

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5Releases

540Commits

3Contributors

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License CC-BY-4.0 · 540 commits · Last activity 2023-10-10

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Repository practices

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Checks run against github.com/irworkshop/campfin on 2026-08-03.

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2

Imports (14)

dplyr fs ggplot2 glue (>= 1.3.1)httr lubridate magrittr (>= 1.5)purrr readr rlang scales stringdist stringr tibble

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People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Kiernan Nicholls

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (2)

Kiernan Nicholls

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Yanqi Xu

Author · added in 1.0.6

Kiernan Nicholls

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Investigative Reporting Workshop

Schuyler Erle

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.11Latest
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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-10-20
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-10-15
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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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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1.0.4
2020-11-27 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
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1.0.1
2020-11-05
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-11-05
Total releases: 10 / 6 yrs
License: CC BY 4.0
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2
Bundled data: 400 KB / 16 files
Download size: 518 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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