rmoriebricklayer: Reproducible Data Capsules with Provenance and Fallback
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.
| Version: |
0.5.1 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: |
methods, stats, utils |
| Suggests: |
digest, jsonlite, knitr, openssl, pkgdown, rmarkdown, sf, stringi, testthat (≥ 3.0.0) |
| Published: |
2026-09-21 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.rmoriebricklayer |
| Author: |
Vansh Singh Ruhela
 [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: |
Vansh Singh Ruhela <vsruhela at proton.me> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/rootcoder007/rmorie-bricklayer/issues |
| License: |
AGPL-3 |
| URL: |
https://github.com/rootcoder007/rmorie-bricklayer,
https://rootcoder007.github.io/rmorie-bricklayer/ |
| NeedsCompilation: |
yes |
| SystemRequirements: |
libcurl (deb: libcurl4-openssl-dev, rpm:
libcurl-devel). |
| Language: |
en-US |
| Citation: |
rmoriebricklayer citation info |
| Materials: |
README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
rmoriebricklayer results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: |
rmoriebricklayer.html , rmoriebricklayer.pdf
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| Vignettes: |
Building reproducible data capsules (source, R code)
Categorical integrity: labels that cannot be swapped quietly (source, R code)
Look at the data first (source, R code)
Has the data changed? (source, R code)
Your first capsule: a published table, analysed and recorded (source, R code)
Provenance you can verify (source, R code)
Statistics for a published administrative table (source, R code)
Year-over-year change, and the three ways it goes wrong (source, R code)
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