nomisdata

0.1.2

Access 'Nomis' UK Labour Market Data and Statistics

0packages depend

1.9Kdownloads / year

62.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Cheryl Isabella LimFirst published 2025-11-243 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Interface to the 'Nomis' database (https://www.nomisweb.co.uk), maintained by Durham University on behalf of the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Provides access to UK labour market statistics including census data, benefit claimant counts, and employment surveys. Supports automatic pagination, optional disk caching, spatial data via 'sf', and tidy data output. Independent implementation unaffiliated with ONS or Durham University.

Install

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

install.packages("nomisdata", 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("cherylisabella/nomisdata")

Development version from cherylisabella/nomisdata. 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-nomisdata

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-nomisdata

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-nomisdata

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.5 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 2.02

62.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,738 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 28%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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Rank #15,881 · ~5/day · ~159/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ cherylisabella/nomisdata

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12 commits · Last activity 2026-05-04

Repository practices

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2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/cherylisabella/nomisdata on 2026-07-26.

Continuous integration (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (9)

cli dplyr httr2 jsonlite rlang tibbleutilsdigestmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

cachem ggplot2 janitor knitr memoise rappdirs readr rmarkdown rsdmx scales (>= 1.2.0)sf testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

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People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Cheryl Isabella Lim

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Cheryl Isabella Lim

Author, Maintainer

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Lim

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.1.2

Package Timeline

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

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.2Latest
2026-02-10 · current release · diff ↗
0.1.1
2025-11-26 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2025-11-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-11-24
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 0.4 KB / 1 file
Download size: 2.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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