R Observatory: Metrics for obr version 0.6.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

obr

0.6.0

Access 'Office for Budget Responsibility' Data

0packages depend

1.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

9/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Charles CoverdaleFirst published 2026-03-135 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides clean, tidy access to data published by the 'Office for Budget Responsibility' ('OBR'), the UK's independent fiscal watchdog. Covers the Public Finances Databank (outturn for PSNB, PSND, receipts, and expenditure since 1946), the Historical Official Forecasts Database (every 'OBR' forecast since 2010), the Economic and Fiscal Outlook detailed forecast tables (five-year projections from the latest Budget), the monthly profiles for the public finances (the 'OBR' forecast apportioned across the months of the fiscal year), the Welfare Trends Report (incapacity benefit spending and caseloads), and the Fiscal Risks and Sustainability Report (50-year state pension projections). All returned objects carry provenance metadata recording the source URL, publication vintage, retrieval time, and file fingerprint, so analyses can be audited and reproduced. Data is downloaded from the 'OBR' on first use and cached locally for subsequent calls. Data is sourced from the 'OBR' website https://obr.uk.

Install

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

install.packages("obr", 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("charlescoverdale/obr")

Development version from charlescoverdale/obr. 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-obr

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-obr

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-obr

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

Health

CRAN checks

4ERROR9OK

Failing flavors

ERROR r-oldrel-macos-arm64
ERROR r-oldrel-macos-x86_64
ERROR r-release-macos-arm64
ERROR r-release-macos-x86_64

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

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.36

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

ERROR2026-07-28
9 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 4 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-14
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 2,602 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 25%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

1.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,853 · ~5/day · ~150/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

16130 days

1.1K90 days

1.8K1 year

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Also on47 r2u2 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ charlescoverdale/obr

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0Forks

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0Open PRs

0Releases

52Commits

1Contributors

52 commits · Last activity 2026-08-02 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2026-03-16 · 12026-07-07 · 1

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/charlescoverdale/obr on 2026-08-03.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (4)

cli httr2 readxltools

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Charles Coverdale

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Charles Coverdale

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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

0.6.0Latest
2026-08-03 · current release · diff ↗
0.5.1
2026-07-28 · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.5
2026-04-14 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-04-14
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-03-30
issues were not corrected in time
0.2.4
2026-03-17 · diff ↗
0.2.2
2026-03-13
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-13
Total releases: 5 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Start here. This is the citation for the package itself.

citation("obr")

CRAN DOI

https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.obr

This package ships its own citation metadata, so citation() gives the form its authors ask for. Use that rather than anything derived from DESCRIPTION.

This is the citation for the package. It is not a citation for the R Observatory.

Cite this page

Use this when the claim is about a measurement on this page.

BibTeX

@misc{robservatoryobr,
  author    = {Balamuta, James Joseph},
  title     = {{R} {Observatory}: Metrics for {obr} version 0.6.0},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {HJJB, LLC},
  url       = {https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/obr},
  note      = {Data set. Data release v2026-08-05}
}

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for obr version 0.6.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-05. https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/obr

RIS

TY  - DATA
AU  - Balamuta, James Joseph
TI  - R Observatory: Metrics for obr version 0.6.0
PY  - 2026
PB  - HJJB, LLC
N1  - Data release v2026-08-05
UR  - https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/obr
ER  -

In prose

These package metrics were obtained from the R Observatory (Balamuta, 2026), data release v2026-08-05, https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/obr.

Bound to data release v2026-08-05, which is what makes the numbers on this page reproducible. See how to cite.

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