datadiff

0.6.0

Data Validation Based on 'YAML' Rules

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2.2Kdownloads / year

98.7%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Vincent GuyaderFirst published 2026-03-183 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A comprehensive data validation package that allows comparing datasets using configurable validation rules defined in 'YAML' files. Built on top of the 'pointblank' package for robust data validation, it supports exact matching, tolerance-based numeric comparisons, text normalization, and row count validation.

Install

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

install.packages("datadiff", 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("ThinkR-open/datadiff")

Development version from ThinkR-open/datadiff. 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-datadiff

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-datadiff

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-datadiff

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: 5.5 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 3.15

98.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-19
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,430 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

2.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,513 · ~6/day · ~186/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ thinkr-open/datadiff

6Stars

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0Open PRs

2Releases

81Commits

3Contributors

81 commits · Last activity 2026-07-12 · 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/thinkr-open/datadiff on 2026-08-02.

Continuous integration (1)

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Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Development tooling

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Evidence

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (6)

dplyr pointblank rlang tidyselectutilsyaml

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none

Suggests (11)

arrow DBI dbplyr duckdb gt knitr rmarkdown RSQLite stringr testthat tibble

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Vincent Guyader

Maintainer, Author

Authors (1)

Vincent Guyader

Maintainer, Author

ThinkR

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Package Timeline

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0.6.0Latest
2026-07-12 · current release · diff ↗
0.5.0
2026-06-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.4
2026-03-18
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-18
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
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