easycensus

1.1.4

Quickly Find, Extract, and Marginalize U.S. Census Tables

2packages depend

4.1Kdownloads / year

18.5%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Cory McCartanFirst published 2022-02-285 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Extracting desired data using the proper Census variable names can be time-consuming. This package takes the pain out of that process by providing functions to quickly locate variables and download labeled tables from the Census APIs (https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets.html).

Install

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

install.packages("easycensus", 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("CoryMcCartan/easycensus")

Development version from CoryMcCartan/easycensus. 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-easycensus

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-easycensus

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-easycensus

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.07

18.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-05-21
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-13
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 335 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 56%
Documented parameters: 83%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

4.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,075 · ~11/day · ~340/mo

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38230 days

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4.1K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ corymccartan/easycensus

18Stars

1Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

51Commits

2Contributors

rcensuscensus-apiacs-data

51 commits · Last activity 2026-05-13 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-03-29 · 162026-07-07 · 18

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/corymccartan/easycensus on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Lint, format, editor (2)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (8)

rlang vctrs pillar dplyr tidyr stringr censusapi cli

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

posterior testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

redistverse birdie

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 1,716 (72%)Rd 662 (28%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S321

Cyclomatic complexity: 1.0 median / 18 max
Test cases: 9 / 0.07 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

18%

Expression

24.5%

Tests / Examples

18.5% / 20% ex

Functions

72 26 exported

Complexity

2.3 avg / 18 max

Call network

72 nodes / 55 edges

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Lowest coverage

72 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
cens_find exp	2	0%
cens_find_acs exp	2	0%
cens_geo exp	18	0%
cens_get_acs exp	9	0%
cens_get_dec exp	8	0%
cens_get_raw exp	7	0%

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Cory McCartan

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Cory McCartan

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

5 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

1.1.4Latest
2026-05-14 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.1.3
2025-02-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.1.1
2023-03-20 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2022-08-25 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.2.1
2022-02-28
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-02-28
Total releases: 5 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 108 KB / 2 files
Download size: 184 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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