validate

1.1.7

Data Validation Infrastructure

10packages depend

45.3Kdownloads / year

87.4%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Mark van der LooFirst published 2015-09-0121 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Declare data validation rules and data quality indicators; confront data with them and analyze or visualize the results. The package supports rules that are per-field, in-record, cross-record or cross-dataset. Rules can be automatically analyzed for rule type and connectivity. Supports checks implied by an SDMX DSD file as well. See also Van der Loo and De Jonge (2018) doi:10.1002/9781118897126, Chapter 6 and the JSS paper (2021) doi:10.18637/jss.v097.i10.

Install

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

install.packages("validate", 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("data-cleaning/validate")

Development version from data-cleaning/validate. 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-validate

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-validate

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.8 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Check history

OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-07
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 ↗ data-cleaning/validate

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49Open issues

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823 commits · Last activity 2025-12-10 · +0.2% stars, 30d

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Makefile

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0methods

Imports (5)

statsgraphicsgridsettings yaml

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

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Enhances (0)

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Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

10direct

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Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Mark van der Loo

Maintainer, Author

Authors (2)

Mark van der Loo

Maintainer, Author

Edwin de Jonge

Author

Contributors (1)

Paul Hsieh

Contributor

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-09-01
Total releases: 21 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 2.7 MB
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