ipumsr

0.10.0

An R Interface for Downloading, Reading, and Handling IPUMS Data

3packages depend

65.8Kdownloads / year

86.4%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Derek BurkFirst published 2017-11-1425 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An easy way to work with census, survey, and geographic data provided by IPUMS in R. Generate and download data through the IPUMS API and load IPUMS files into R with their associated metadata to make analysis easier. IPUMS data describing 1.4 billion individuals drawn from over 750 censuses and surveys is available free of charge from the IPUMS website https://www.ipums.org.

Install

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

install.packages("ipumsr", 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("ipums/ipumsr")

Development version from ipums/ipumsr. 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-ipumsr

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-ipumsr

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 6.8 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.84

86.4%

Coverage · measured lines

99%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-06-09
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ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-18
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-10
10 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 4 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 985 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 92%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 96%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

65.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,694 · ~180/day · ~5.5K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ipums/ipumsr

43Stars

10Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

15Releases

1,155Commits

17Contributors

License MPL-2.0 · 1,155 commits · Last activity 2026-03-17 · +2.4% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

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Checks run against github.com/ipums/ipumsr on 2026-07-30.

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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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Coverage (2)

Codecov.covrignore

Git structural (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

34 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (14)

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none

Suggests (20)

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Reverse dependencies

3direct

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Maintainer (1)

Derek Burk

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Derek Burk

Author, Maintainer

Finn Roberts

Author · added in 0.5.0

Greg Freedman Ellis

Author

Contributors (3)

Dan Ehrlich

Contributor · added in 0.5.1

Joe Grover

Contributor

Renae Rodgers

Contributor · added in 0.5.1

Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation

Listed in earlier versions (3)

Minnesota Population Center

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.5.2

Derek Burk ipums+cran@umn.edu

no longer listed · 0.6.0 to 0.10.0

Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation ipums@umn.edu

no longer listed · 0.6.0 to 0.10.0

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-14
Total releases: 25 / 9 yrs
License: Mozilla Public License 2.0
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 4.4 MB
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