gesisdata

0.1.2

Reproducible Data Retrieval from the GESIS Data Archive

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Overview

About

Maintained by Frederick SoltFirst published 2020-06-262 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Reproducible, programmatic retrieval of datasets from the GESIS Data Archive. The GESIS Data Archive https://search.gesis.org makes available thousands of invaluable datasets, but researchers using these datasets are caught in a bind. The archive's terms and conditions bar dissemination of downloaded datasets to third parties, but to ensure that one's work can be reproduced, assessed, and built upon by others, one must provide access to the raw data one has employed. The 'gesisdata' package cuts this knot by providing registered users with programmatic, reproducible access to GESIS datasets from within 'R'.

Install

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

install.packages("gesisdata", 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("fsolt/gesisdata")

Development version from fsolt/gesisdata. 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-gesisdata

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-gesisdata

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

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

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Repository

GitHub ↗ fsolt/gesisdata

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47 commits · Last activity 2023-07-03 · 0% stars, 30d

Repository practices

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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none

Imports (9)

dplyrforeignmagrittr netstat rio RSelenium stringrtoolsutils

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Suggests (2)

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Frederick Solt

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Frederick Solt

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Contributors (1)

Dave Peterson

Contributor · added in 0.1.2

Frederick Solt

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

2 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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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
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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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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-06-26
Total releases: 2 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 1.3 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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