Package: rmoriebricklayer
Title: Reproducible Data Capsules with Provenance and Fallback
Version: 0.5.1
Authors@R: 
    person("Vansh Singh", "Ruhela", email = "vsruhela@proton.me",
           role = c("aut", "cre"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0009-0004-1750-3592"))
Description: Tools for building brick-proof, reproducible, self-contained data
    capsules. Resolves open-data sources through the Comprehensive Knowledge
    Archive Network ('CKAN', <https://ckan.org/>) package_show and
    package_search endpoints, records and verifies provenance with Secure
    Hash Algorithm 256 ('SHA-256') digests and Internet Archive 'Wayback
    Machine' (<https://web.archive.org/>) snapshots, validates downloaded
    data against a pinned schema, and falls back to schema-driven synthetic
    data when the real source is unreachable. Run records are captured in a
    manifest plus a plain-language summary so any result can be traced back
    to its inputs. Distributional drift between a pinned capsule and a fresh
    fetch is tested with Kolmogorov-Smirnov, chi-square, population
    stability index, Jensen-Shannon divergence and 'Benford' first-digit
    screens, because a re-released extract can be statistically identical
    yet differ byte-for-byte, and a column can keep its name and type while
    having been silently rescaled. Manifests can be authenticated rather
    than only checksum-verified, with keyed digests ('HMAC-SHA-256', RFC
    2104) or post-quantum hash-based signatures ('Winternitz' one-time
    signatures under a 'Merkle' tree, RFC 8391), and pinned chunk-wise
    through a 'Merkle' tree so a mismatch identifies which part of a capsule
    moved. Also ships a compiled C++ core (summary, robust and rank
    statistics, 'SHA-256', 'SHA-512' and 'CRC-32') that sibling packages in
    the 'rmorie' ecosystem reach through 'LinkingTo' for a single, shared
    numeric and provenance-hashing backend. For the published administrative
    tables these capsules usually hold, it computes period-over-period
    change matched on the period rather than the row, with the exact
    conditional-binomial interval for a ratio of counts and with a
    percentage-point reading kept distinct from a percent change, rendered
    to Hypertext Markup Language ('HTML'), Portable Document Format ('PDF'),
    delimited text, JavaScript Object Notation ('JSON') or Markdown.
    Interval categories such as "2 to 5" or "50+" are parsed to bounds and
    the dependence of any derived figure on the open top band is measured
    rather than assumed. Concentration is summarised by the 'Gini'
    coefficient, the Lorenz curve and tail-index estimation by exact
    discrete maximum likelihood; trend in a series of a few periods by the
    Mann-Kendall test with 'Theil-Sen' slopes, a permutation step-change
    scan and Poisson rate ratios; and region-coded counts by indirect
    standardisation, exact standardised incidence ratios, the empirical
    Bayes shrinkage of Clayton and 'Kaldor' (1987) <doi:10.2307/2532003>,
    funnel-plot limits and Moran's I.
License: AGPL-3
Encoding: UTF-8
Language: en-US
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)
Imports: methods, stats, utils
Suggests: digest, jsonlite, knitr, openssl, pkgdown, rmarkdown, sf,
        stringi, testthat (>= 3.0.0)
VignetteBuilder: knitr
URL: https://github.com/rootcoder007/rmorie-bricklayer,
        https://rootcoder007.github.io/rmorie-bricklayer/
BugReports: https://github.com/rootcoder007/rmorie-bricklayer/issues
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Config/roxygen2/version: 8.0.0
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
SystemRequirements: libcurl (deb: libcurl4-openssl-dev, rpm:
        libcurl-devel).
NeedsCompilation: yes
Packaged: 2026-09-18 21:48:14 UTC; rootcoder
Author: Vansh Singh Ruhela [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1750-3592>)
Maintainer: Vansh Singh Ruhela <vsruhela@proton.me>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-09-21 11:50:02 UTC
