censusapi

0.10.0

Retrieve Data from the Census APIs

2packages depend

28.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Hannah RechtFirst published 2017-06-0610 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A wrapper for the U.S. Census Bureau APIs that returns data frames of Census data and metadata. Available datasets include the Decennial Census, American Community Survey, Small Area Health Insurance Estimates, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, Population Estimates and Projections, and more.

Install

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

install.packages("censusapi", 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("hrecht/censusapi")

Development version from hrecht/censusapi. 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-censusapi

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-censusapi

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-censusapi

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 58 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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

Documentation

READMEYes · 417 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 86%
Documented parameters: 85%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

28.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,020 · ~77/day · ~2.3K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ hrecht/censusapi

184Stars

32Forks

8Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

257Commits

4Contributors

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257 commits · Last activity 2026-05-20

Repository practices

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Checks run against github.com/hrecht/censusapi on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Governance and community (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (3)

httr jsonlite rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

6indirect

censable easycensus

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 991 (67%)Rd 464 (31%)Vignettes 23 (2%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 5.0 median / 24 max

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

8 6 exported

Complexity

8.5 avg / 24 max

Call network

8 nodes / 7 edges

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Lowest coverage

Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 1

Name	Class	Rows × Cols	Also ships in
fips	vector	–	–

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Hannah Recht

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Hannah Recht

Author, Maintainer

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-06-06
Total releases: 10 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 0.2 KB / 1 file
Download size: 25 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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