wrds

0.1.1

Access 'Wharton Research Data Services' ('WRDS')

1packages depend

1.8Kdownloads / year

41.8%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ulrich AtzFirst published 2026-01-192 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides simple functions for accessing data from 'Wharton Research Data Services' ('WRDS'), a widely used financial database in academic research. Includes credential management via the system keyring, database tools, and functions for downloading generic tables, 'Compustat' fundamentals, and linking tables.

Install

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

install.packages("wrds", 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("statzhero/wrds")

Development version from statzhero/wrds. 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-wrds

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-wrds

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

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.74

41.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
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 · 294 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 8%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 11%

Downloads

1.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,881 · ~5/day · ~152/mo

Releases R versions

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18530 days

1K90 days

1.8K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ statzhero/wrds

2Stars

1Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

23Commits

2Contributors

rr-packagewrdsrstats

23 commits · Last activity 2026-05-29 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2026-01-22 · 12026-07-07 · 2

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/statzhero/wrds on 2026-08-02.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (8)

cli DBI dbplyr dplyr keyring rlang RPostgres tidylog

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

db2pq

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Ulrich Atz

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Ulrich Atz

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Ulrich Atz

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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

0.1.1Latest
2026-05-11 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.0.1
2026-03-10
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-19
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 23 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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