restatis

0.4.1

R Wrapper to Access a Wide Range of Germany's Federal Statistical System Databases Based on the GENESIS Web Service RESTful API of the German Federal Statistical Office (Statistisches Bundesamt/Destatis)

0packages depend

8.1Kdownloads / year

10.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Yannik BuhlFirst published 2023-06-305 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A RESTful API wrapper for accessing the main databases of Germany's Federal Statistical System. Supports data search functions, credential management, result caching, and handling remote background jobs for large datasets.

Install

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

install.packages("restatis", 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("CorrelAid/restatis")

Development version from CorrelAid/restatis. 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-restatis

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-restatis

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-restatis

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 2.26

10.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-06-03
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ERROR2026-05-25
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 · 1,222 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

8.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,634 · ~22/day · ~675/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ correlaid/restatis

34Stars

7Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

322Commits

7Contributors

322 commits · Last activity 2026-07-15 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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

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Continuous integration (1)

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CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Git structural (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (8)

askpass httr2 memoise readrstatstibble vctrs purrr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

httptest2 quarto rmarkdown testthat rvest usethis withr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

JSON 14,347 (54%)R 9,237 (35%)Rd 1,993 (8%)HTML 557 (2%)Vignettes 408 (2%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 5.0 median / 140 max
Test cases: 111 / 2.26 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

10%

Expression

10.4%

Tests / Examples

10.0% / 0% ex

Functions

64 25 exported

Complexity

10.3 avg / 140 max

Call network

64 nodes / 157 edges

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Lowest coverage

64 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
gen_download_job exp	1	0%
gen_list_jobs exp	7	0%
gen_logincheck exp	1	0%
gen_metadata_cube exp	9	0%
gen_metadata_statistic exp	7	0%
gen_metadata_table exp	10	0%

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 1

Name	Class	Rows × Cols	Also ships in
evas_list	tbl_df/tbl/data.frame	1,132 × 3	–

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Yannik Buhl

Author, Maintainer

Authors (5)

Author, Maintainer

Author

Author

Author

Author

Contributors (1)

Stefan Linner

Contributor · added in 0.4.0

Package Timeline

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

0.4.1Latest
2026-06-01 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.0
2026-03-15 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3.0
2025-04-09 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2024-07-25 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.0
2023-06-30
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-06-30
Total releases: 5 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 25 KB / 1 file
Download size: 417 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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