{ "_id": "6a104726acfb0bcc41c9eddf", "Package": "wru", "Title": "Who are You? Bayesian Prediction of Racial Category Using\nSurname, First Name, Middle Name, and Geolocation", "Version": "3.1.1", "Date": "2026-04-30", "Authors@R": "c(\nperson(\"Kabir\", \"Khanna\", , \"kabirkhanna@gmail.com\", role = \"aut\"),\nperson(\"Brandon\", \"Bertelsen\", , \"brandon@bertelsen.ca\", role = c(\"aut\", \"cre\")),\nperson(\"Santiago\", \"Olivella\", , \"olivella@unc.edu\", role = \"aut\"),\nperson(\"Evan\", \"Rosenman\", , \"etrrosenman@gmail.com\", role = \"aut\"),\nperson(\"Alexander\", \"Rossell Hayes\", , \"alexander@rossellhayes.com\", role = \"aut\"),\nperson(\"Kosuke\", \"Imai\", , \"imai@harvard.edu\", role = \"aut\"),\nperson(\"Noah\", \"Dasanaike\", , \"noahdasanaike@g.harvard.edu\", role = \"aut\")\n)", "Description": "Predicts individual race/ethnicity using surname, first\nname, middle name, geolocation, and other attributes, such as\ngender and age. The method utilizes Bayes' Rule (with optional\nmeasurement error correction) to compute the posterior\nprobability of each racial category for any given individual.\nThe package implements methods described in Imai and Khanna\n(2016) \"Improving Ecological Inference by Predicting Individual\nEthnicity from Voter Registration Records\" Political Analysis\n and Imai, Olivella, and Rosenman\n(2022) \"Addressing census data problems in race imputation via\nfully Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding and name supplements\"\n. The package also incorporates\nthe data described in Rosenman, Olivella, and Imai (2023) \"Race\nand ethnicity data for first, middle, and surnames\"\n.", "License": "GPL (>= 3)", "URL": "https://github.com/kosukeimai/wru", "BugReports": "https://github.com/kosukeimai/wru/issues", "Config/testthat/edition": "3", "Encoding": "UTF-8", "LazyData": "yes", "LazyDataCompression": "xz", "LazyLoad": "yes", "Roxygen": "list(markdown = TRUE)", "RoxygenNote": "7.3.1", "Config/pak/sysreqs": "libabsl-dev cmake libgdal-dev gdal-bin libgeos-dev\ngit make libicu-dev libuv1-dev libssl-dev libproj-dev\nlibsqlite3-dev libudunits2-dev libx11-dev", "Repository": "https://kosukeimai.r-universe.dev", "Date/Publication": "2026-05-09 02:59:48 UTC", "RemoteUrl": "https://github.com/kosukeimai/wru", "RemoteRef": "HEAD", "RemoteSha": "96995a9aa1d768860b8504036bc3afeb8a9bc155", "NeedsCompilation": "yes", "Packaged": { "Date": "2026-05-10 09:47:16 UTC", "User": "root" }, "Author": "Kabir Khanna [aut],\nBrandon Bertelsen [aut, cre],\nSantiago Olivella [aut],\nEvan Rosenman [aut],\nAlexander Rossell Hayes [aut],\nKosuke Imai [aut],\nNoah Dasanaike [aut]", "Maintainer": "Brandon Bertelsen ", "MD5sum": "dc7200b6ab6688af2bad761098ec27e3", "_user": "kosukeimai", "_type": "src", "_file": "wru_3.1.1.tar.gz", "_fileid": "08688c1335924d622e90d64ff9a7f8e20fce4f97066738d37da678c7c54c1be2", "_filesize": 4713145, "_sha256": "08688c1335924d622e90d64ff9a7f8e20fce4f97066738d37da678c7c54c1be2", "_created": "2026-05-10T09:47:16.000Z", "_published": "2026-05-22T12:08:06.103Z", "_distro": "noble", "_jobs": [ { "job": 77376187781, "time": 179, "config": "linux-devel-arm64", "r": "4.7.0", "check": "NOTE", "artifact": "6902788675" }, { "job": 77376188001, "time": 186, "config": "linux-devel-x86_64", "r": "4.7.0", "check": "NOTE", "artifact": "6902789257" }, { "job": 77376188521, "time": 210, "config": "linux-release-arm64", "r": "4.6.0", "check": "NOTE", "artifact": "6902791582" }, { "job": 77376188436, "time": 192, "config": "linux-release-x86_64", "r": "4.6.0", "check": "NOTE", "artifact": "6902789771" }, { "job": 77376188483, "time": 125, "config": "macos-oldrel-arm64", "r": "4.5.3", "check": "NOTE", "artifact": "6902808017" }, { "job": 77376188213, "time": 308, "config": "macos-oldrel-x86_64", "r": "4.5.3", "check": "ERROR", "artifact": "6902827762" }, { "job": 77376188007, "time": 104, "config": "macos-release-arm64", "r": "4.6.0", "check": "ERROR", "artifact": "6902799658" }, { "job": 77376188180, "time": 339, "config": "macos-release-x86_64", "r": "4.6.0", "check": "ERROR", "artifact": "6902816662" }, { "job": 77376187972, "time": 223, "config": "source", "r": "4.6.0", "check": "OK", "artifact": "6902771115" }, { "job": 77376187477, "time": 142, "config": "wasm-release", "r": "4.6.0", "check": "OK", "artifact": "7160092712" }, { "job": 77376188209, "time": 155, "config": "windows-devel", "r": "4.7.0", "check": "NOTE", "artifact": "6902786193" }, { "job": 77376187884, "time": 139, "config": "windows-oldrel", "r": "4.5.3", "check": "NOTE", "artifact": "6902784714" }, { "job": 77376188175, "time": 142, "config": "windows-release", "r": "4.6.0", "check": "NOTE", "artifact": "6902784941" } ], "_buildurl": "https://github.com/r-universe/kosukeimai/actions/runs/25625509876", "_status": "success", "_host": "GitHub-Actions", "_upstream": "https://github.com/kosukeimai/wru", "_commit": { "id": "96995a9aa1d768860b8504036bc3afeb8a9bc155", "author": "Brandon Bertelsen ", "committer": "GitHub ", "message": "Add entry for version 3.1.1 bugfix", "time": 1778295588 }, "_maintainer": { "name": "Brandon Bertelsen", "email": "brandon@bertelsen.ca", "login": "1beb", "uuid": 421859 }, "_registered": true, "_dependencies": [ { "package": "R", "version": ">= 4.1.0", "role": "Depends" }, { "package": "utils", "role": "Depends" }, { "package": "Rcpp", "role": "LinkingTo" }, { "package": "RcppArmadillo", "role": "LinkingTo" }, { "package": "cli", "role": "Imports" }, { "package": "dplyr", "role": "Imports" }, { "package": "tidyr", "role": "Imports" }, { "package": "furrr", "role": "Imports" }, { "package": "future", "role": "Imports" }, { "package": "piggyback", "version": ">= 0.1.4", "role": "Imports" }, { "package": "PL94171", "role": "Imports" }, { "package": "purrr", "role": "Imports" }, { "package": "Rcpp", "role": "Imports" }, { "package": "rlang", "role": "Imports" }, { "package": "covr", "role": "Suggests" }, { "package": "reticulate", "role": "Suggests" }, { "package": "testthat", "version": ">= 3.0.0", "role": "Suggests" }, { "package": "tidycensus", "role": "Suggests" } ], "_owner": "kosukeimai", "_selfowned": true, "_usedby": 0, "_updates": [ { "week": "2026-19", "n": 5 } ], "_tags": [ { "name": "v3.1.0", "date": "2026-05-07" }, { "name": "v3.1.1", "date": "2026-05-09" } ], "_stars": 138, "_contributors": [ { "user": "1beb", "count": 111, "uuid": 421859 }, { "user": "kkprinceton", "count": 90, "uuid": 15332071 }, { "user": "rossellhayes", "count": 67, "uuid": 44556601 }, { "user": "hj08003", "count": 60, "uuid": 12300963 }, { "user": "solivella", "count": 49, "uuid": 13560956 }, { "user": "mdblocker", "count": 32, "uuid": 46643241 }, { "user": "xiyuy", "count": 19, "uuid": 90369889 }, { "user": "noahdasanaike", "count": 15, "uuid": 23142832 }, { "user": "kosukeimai", "count": 13, "uuid": 6608243 }, { "user": "etrrosenman", "count": 5, "uuid": 1414011 }, { "user": "avesh-krishna", "count": 4, "uuid": 29965675 }, { "user": "soodoku", "count": 3, "uuid": 721466 }, { "user": "corymccartan", "count": 1, "uuid": 2958471 } ], "_userbio": { "uuid": 6608243, "type": "user", "name": "Kosuke Imai" }, "_downloads": { "count": 618, "source": "https://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/downloads/total/last-month/wru" }, "_devurl": "https://github.com/kosukeimai/wru", "_searchresults": 137, "_topics": [ "cpp" ], "_rbuild": "4.6.0", "_assets": [ "extra/citation.cff", "extra/citation.html", "extra/citation.json", "extra/citation.txt", "extra/contents.json", "extra/readme.html", "extra/readme.md", "extra/wru.html", "manual.pdf" ], "_homeurl": "https://github.com/kosukeimai/wru", "_realowner": "kosukeimai", "_cranurl": true, "_releases": [ { "version": "0.0-1", "date": "2015-12-09" }, { "version": "0.0-2", "date": "2016-03-11" }, { "version": "0.1-1", "date": "2016-12-13" }, { "version": "0.1-2", "date": "2017-03-05" }, { "version": "0.1-3", "date": "2017-04-14" }, { "version": "0.1-4", "date": "2017-05-05" }, { "version": "0.1-5", "date": "2017-06-08" }, { "version": "0.1-6", "date": "2017-08-17" }, { "version": "0.1-7", "date": "2017-09-01" }, { "version": "0.1-8", "date": "2019-02-13" }, { "version": "0.1-9", "date": "2019-02-21" }, { "version": "0.1-10", "date": "2020-10-22" }, { "version": "0.1-11", "date": "2021-04-22" }, { "version": "0.1-12", "date": "2021-05-17" }, { "version": "1.0.0", "date": "2022-06-21" }, { "version": "1.0.1", "date": "2022-10-21" }, { "version": "3.0.0", "date": "2024-02-16" }, { "version": "3.0.1", "date": "2024-02-28" }, { "version": "3.0.2", "date": "2024-04-04" }, { "version": "3.0.3", "date": "2024-05-24" }, { "version": "3.1.0", "date": "2026-05-07" } ], "_exports": [ "as_fips_code", "as_state_abbreviation", "format_legacy_data", "get_census_data", "predict_race", "setup_ebisg" ], "_datasets": [ { "name": "state_fips", "title": "Dataset with FIPS codes for US states", "object": "state_fips", "class": [ "tbl_df", "tbl", "data.frame" ], "fields": [ "state", "state_code", "state_name" ], "rows": 57, "table": true, "tojson": true }, { "name": "surnames2000", "title": "Census Surname List (2000).", "object": "surnames2000", "class": [ "data.frame" ], "fields": [ "surname", "p_whi", "p_bla", "p_his", "p_asi", "p_oth" ], "rows": 157728, "table": true, "tojson": true }, { "name": "surnames2010", "title": "Census Surname List (2010).", "object": "surnames2010", "class": [ "data.frame" ], "fields": [ "surname", "p_whi", "p_bla", "p_his", "p_asi", "p_oth" ], "rows": 167613, "table": true, "tojson": true }, { "name": "voters", "title": "Example voter file.", "object": "voters", "class": [ "data.frame" ], "fields": [ "VoterID", "surname", "state", "CD", "county", "tract", "block", "precinct", "age", "sex", "party", "PID", "place", "last", "first" ], "rows": 10, "table": true, "tojson": true } ], "_help": [ { "page": "ebisg", "title": "Utilities for eBISG (embedding-supplemented BISG)", "topics": [ "ebisg" ] }, { "page": "format_legacy_data", "title": "Legacy data formatting function.", "topics": [ "format_legacy_data" ] }, { "page": "get_census_data", "title": "Multilevel Census data download function.", "topics": [ "get_census_data" ] }, { "page": "predict_race", "title": "Race prediction function.", "topics": [ "predict_race" ] }, { "page": "setup_ebisg", "title": "Set up Python environment for eBISG predictions", "topics": [ "setup_ebisg" ] }, { "page": "state_fips", "title": "Dataset with FIPS codes for US states", "topics": [ "state_fips" ] }, { "page": "surnames2000", "title": "Census Surname List (2000).", "topics": [ "surnames2000" ] }, { "page": "surnames2010", "title": "Census Surname List (2010).", "topics": [ "surnames2010" ] }, { "page": "voters", "title": "Example voter file.", "topics": [ "voters" ] }, { "page": "wru_data_preflight", "title": "Preflight for name data", "topics": [ "wru_data_preflight" ] } ], "_pkglogo": "https://github.com/kosukeimai/wru/raw/HEAD/man/figures/logo.png", "_readme": "https://github.com/kosukeimai/wru/raw/HEAD/README.md", "_rundeps": [ "askpass", "bit", "bit64", "cachem", "class", "classInt", "cli", "clipr", "codetools", "cpp11", "crayon", "curl", "DBI", "digest", "dplyr", "e1071", "fastmap", "foreign", "fs", "furrr", "future", "generics", "gh", "gitcreds", "globals", "glue", "hms", "httr", "httr2", "ini", "jsonlite", "KernSmooth", "lifecycle", "listenv", "lubridate", "magrittr", "MASS", "memoise", "mime", "openssl", "parallelly", "piggyback", "pillar", "pkgconfig", "PL94171", "prettyunits", "progress", "proxy", "purrr", "R6", "rappdirs", "Rcpp", "RcppArmadillo", "readr", "rlang", "s2", "sf", "stringi", "stringr", "sys", "tibble", "tidyr", "tidyselect", "timechange", "tinytiger", "tzdb", "units", "utf8", "vctrs", "vroom", "withr", "wk" ], "_sysdeps": [ { "shlib": "libstdc++", "package": "libstdc++6", "source": "gcc", "version": "14.2.0-4ubuntu2~24.04.1", "name": "c++", "homepage": "http://gcc.gnu.org/", "description": "GNU Standard C++ Library v3" } ], "_score": 7.054750903941287, "_indexed": true, "_nocasepkg": "wru", "_universes": [ "kosukeimai", "1beb" ], "_binaries": [ { "r": "4.7.0", "os": "linux", "version": "3.1.1", "date": "2026-05-10T09:50:05.000Z", "distro": "noble", "arch": "aarch64", "commit": "96995a9aa1d768860b8504036bc3afeb8a9bc155", "fileid": "92f9f8fa09202be0aa46ca2f9ae9289965eb9a9d69061e137c3086124c7e19da", "status": "success", "check": "NOTE", "buildurl": "https://github.com/r-universe/kosukeimai/actions/runs/25625509876" }, { "r": "4.7.0", "os": "linux", "version": "3.1.1", "date": "2026-05-10T09:50:02.000Z", "distro": "noble", "arch": "x86_64", "commit": "96995a9aa1d768860b8504036bc3afeb8a9bc155", "fileid": "b36da6efb6d684c50c4b4d656861e49ab5b0f389851ec37053cf4273044401b8", "status": "success", "check": "NOTE", "buildurl": "https://github.com/r-universe/kosukeimai/actions/runs/25625509876" }, { "r": "4.6.0", "os": "linux", "version": "3.1.1", "date": "2026-05-10T09:50:35.000Z", "distro": "noble", "arch": "aarch64", "commit": "96995a9aa1d768860b8504036bc3afeb8a9bc155", "fileid": "eeeea84b2432aa30519c90a2138ddb0bebeab30bef19c12b334f05cd584de94d", "status": "success", "check": "NOTE", "buildurl": "https://github.com/r-universe/kosukeimai/actions/runs/25625509876" }, { "r": "4.6.0", "os": "linux", "version": "3.1.1", "date": "2026-05-10T09:50:12.000Z", "distro": "noble", "arch": "x86_64", "commit": "96995a9aa1d768860b8504036bc3afeb8a9bc155", "fileid": "3f9b80216e75474464c2a04dd0e7021869f416c77414a91397a8b06375d93eff", "status": "success", "check": "NOTE", "buildurl": "https://github.com/r-universe/kosukeimai/actions/runs/25625509876" }, { "r": "4.5.3", "os": "mac", "version": "3.1.1", "date": "2026-05-10T09:53:32.000Z", "arch": "aarch64", "commit": "96995a9aa1d768860b8504036bc3afeb8a9bc155", "fileid": "fd0549e3a714913c8fc0969278fa0776735c27cb6f29b0ef13434a5f819991b1", "status": "success", "check": "NOTE", "buildurl": "https://github.com/r-universe/kosukeimai/actions/runs/25625509876" }, { "r": "4.5.3", "os": "mac", "version": "3.1.1", "date": "2026-05-10T09:56:04.000Z", "arch": "x86_64", "commit": "96995a9aa1d768860b8504036bc3afeb8a9bc155", "fileid": "8b51f64ee1a13a61562f2464eb5772d36d10be6dc2e8697b9620d0d178e67050", "status": "failure", "check": "ERROR", "buildurl": "https://github.com/r-universe/kosukeimai/actions/runs/25625509876" }, { "r": "4.6.0", "os": "mac", "version": "3.1.1", "date": "2026-05-10T09:52:09.000Z", "arch": "aarch64", "commit": "96995a9aa1d768860b8504036bc3afeb8a9bc155", "fileid": "2381b7b50f2dbecabcf6588bd75de5cd67c6ca04eb776c82aeff4361a52d4a2f", "status": "failure", "check": "ERROR", "buildurl": "https://github.com/r-universe/kosukeimai/actions/runs/25625509876" }, { "r": "4.6.0", "os": "mac", "version": "3.1.1", "date": "2026-05-10T09:53:51.000Z", "arch": "x86_64", "commit": "96995a9aa1d768860b8504036bc3afeb8a9bc155", "fileid": "c488a7a564329054542f8e3067249056ba942d3f0d5f519e84b14161f2c81d35", "status": "failure", "check": "ERROR", "buildurl": "https://github.com/r-universe/kosukeimai/actions/runs/25625509876" }, { "r": "4.7.0", "os": "win", "version": "3.1.1", "date": "2026-05-10T09:49:15.000Z", "arch": "x86_64", "commit": "96995a9aa1d768860b8504036bc3afeb8a9bc155", "fileid": "0a356fe7c1cbfe6c368497b73e5185f7dcbdf062ef319bf663c846cb18fcee37", "status": "success", "check": "NOTE", "buildurl": "https://github.com/r-universe/kosukeimai/actions/runs/25625509876" }, { "r": "4.5.3", "os": "win", "version": "3.1.1", "date": "2026-05-10T09:48:52.000Z", "arch": "x86_64", "commit": "96995a9aa1d768860b8504036bc3afeb8a9bc155", "fileid": "fef27dbb68be3de8f1e7b6efeeff3f9900b9cbf94df861297058ad145ff0ada6", "status": "success", "check": "NOTE", "buildurl": "https://github.com/r-universe/kosukeimai/actions/runs/25625509876" }, { "r": "4.6.0", "os": "win", "version": "3.1.1", "date": "2026-05-10T09:48:52.000Z", "arch": "x86_64", "commit": "96995a9aa1d768860b8504036bc3afeb8a9bc155", "fileid": "b8dbab31952179b62bdd8e06f03d7341cc15458db3d0f731889e90de208a4f4e", "status": "success", "check": "NOTE", "buildurl": "https://github.com/r-universe/kosukeimai/actions/runs/25625509876" }, { "r": "4.6.0", "os": "wasm", "version": "3.1.1", "date": "2026-05-22T12:07:25.000Z", "arch": "emscripten", "commit": "96995a9aa1d768860b8504036bc3afeb8a9bc155", "fileid": "c3939c76c66c841b4850635480dad2798ae00fcfee39c8e54064e0475496ecd8", "status": "success", "buildurl": "https://github.com/r-universe/kosukeimai/actions/runs/25625509876" } ] }