dfeR

1.0.1

Common Department for Education Analysis Tasks

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

61.5%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Cam RaceFirst published 2025-01-132 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Preferred methods for common analytical tasks that are undertaken across the Department, including number formatting, project templates and curated reference data.

Install

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

install.packages("dfeR", 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("dfe-analytical-services/dfeR")

Development version from dfe-analytical-services/dfeR. 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-dfer

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-dfeR

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: 2.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.48

61.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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ERROR2026-06-17
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
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NOTE2026-06-08
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ERROR2026-05-10
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OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 460 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 95%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,549 · ~7/day · ~225/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ dfe-analytical-services/dfer

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4Forks

15Open issues

5Open PRs

15Releases

129Commits

13Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 129 commits · Last activity 2026-07-03 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/dfe-analytical-services/dfer on 2026-08-03.

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Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Codecov

Governance and community (1)

PR template

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (12)

dplyr emoji httr jsonlite lifecycle magrittr renv rlang tidyselect usethisutilswithr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

knitr readxl rmarkdown spelling stringr testthat (>= 3.0.0)

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (9)

Maintainer (1)

Cam Race

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Cam Race

Author, Maintainer

Adam Robinson

Author

Laura Selby

Author

Contributors (5)

Rich Bielby

Contributor

Jen Machin

Contributor

Lauren Snaathorst

Contributor · added in 1.0.1

Jake Tufts

Contributor

Menna Zayed

Contributor

Department for Education, England

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Department for Education, UK statistics.development@education.gov.uk

no longer listed · 1.0.0

Department for Education, England statistics.development@education.gov.uk

no longer listed · 1.0.1

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
1.0.1Latest
2025-01-15 · current release · diff ↗
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2025-01-13
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2025-01-13
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 246 KB / 5 files
Download size: 669 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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