rmoriebricklayer: Reproducible Data Capsules with Provenance and Fallback
For analyzing published and unpublished tables, from open-data portals and statistical agencies to a researcher's own data, so that a result can be traced to the exact data behind it and checked again afterwards. A 'capsule' records where each source came from, its Secure Hash Algorithm 256 ('SHA-256') hash, the schema it should have and an archived copy in the Internet Archive 'Wayback Machine' ('web.archive.org'); sources are found through the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network ('CKAN', 'ckan.org'). Run again, a capsule says whether each source still matches and, if it does not, how its distribution moved (Kolmogorov-Smirnov, chi-square, population stability index and 'Benford' first-digit screens), and when a source cannot be reached it runs on schema-driven synthetic data that is marked as such. Capsules can be signed with keyed hashes ('HMAC-SHA-256', RFC 2104) or with the post-quantum signature standards 'ML-DSA' (FIPS 204), 'SLH-DSA' (FIPS 205) and 'XMSS' (RFC 8391), implemented from the standards with no system cryptography library and checked against 'OpenSSL' 3.5 and the known-answer vectors of 'NIST' (the US National Institute of Standards and Technology). For the administrative tables these capsules usually hold, it computes period-over-period change with exact intervals, trends (Mann-Kendall with 'Theil-Sen' slopes), rates, and the bounds that rounding and suppression in a release imply; small-area rates with the empirical Bayes shrinkage of Clayton and 'Kaldor' (1987) DOI 10.2307/2532003; self-exciting event series as 'Hawkes' processes; custodial populations by stock-and-flow measures; and the burden of air pollution from dispersion to attributable deaths.
| Version: | 1.0.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: | graphics, grDevices, methods, parallel, stats, tools, utils |
| Suggests: | withr, bslib (≥ 0.9.0), digest, jsonlite, knitr, later, MASS, openssl, pkgdown, rmarkdown, sf, promises, shiny, stringi, survival, survey, testthat (≥ 3.0.0) |
| Published: | 2026-10-21 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.rmoriebricklayer |
| Author: | Vansh Singh Ruhela
 [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Vansh Singh Ruhela <vsruhela at proton.me> |
| License: | AGPL-3 |
| Copyright: | The bundled excerpts of published statistics in inst/extdata
belong to their publishers; see inst/COPYRIGHTS. rmoriebricklayer copyright details |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| SystemRequirements: | C++17, libcurl (deb: libcurl4-openssl-dev, rpm: libcurl-devel, brew: curl), zlib (deb: zlib1g-dev, rpm: zlib-devel). |
| Language: | en-US |
| Citation: | rmoriebricklayer citation info |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | rmoriebricklayer results |
Documentation:
Downloads:
| Package source: | rmoriebricklayer_1.0.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: rmoriebricklayer_0.5.1.zip, r-release: rmoriebricklayer_0.5.1.zip, r-oldrel: rmoriebricklayer_0.5.1.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): rmoriebricklayer_0.5.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): rmoriebricklayer_0.5.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): rmoriebricklayer_0.5.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): rmoriebricklayer_0.5.1.tgz |
| Old sources: | rmoriebricklayer archive |
Reverse dependencies:
| Reverse imports: | rmoriedata |
| Reverse linking to: | rmoriedata |
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