dfeR: Common Department for Education Analysis Tasks

Provides preferred methods for common analytical tasks undertaken across the Department for Education in England, including number formatting, project templates and curated reference data.

Version: 2.0.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: arrow, cli, DBI, dplyr, emoji, httr2, jsonlite, lifecycle, renv, rlang, rstudio.prefs, stringr, tidyselect, usethis, utils, withr
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, spelling, testthat (≥ 3.1.7), mockery, ggplot2, purrr, scales
Published: 2026-09-23
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.dfeR
Author: Cam Race [aut, cre], Department for Education, England [cph], Laura Selby [aut], Adam Robinson [aut], Jen Machin [ctb], Jake Tufts [ctb], Rich Bielby ORCID iD [ctb], Menna Zayed [ctb], Lauren Snaathorst [ctb], Lara Garbett [ctb], Paula Rocha [ctb]
Maintainer: Cam Race <cameron.race at education.gov.uk>
BugReports: https://github.com/dfe-analytical-services/dfeR/issues
License: GPL (≥ 3)
URL: https://dfe-analytical-services.github.io/dfeR/, https://github.com/dfe-analytical-services/dfeR
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-GB
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: dfeR results

Documentation:

Reference manual: dfeR.html , dfeR.pdf
Vignettes: Connecting to SQL (source, R code)
Creating a new dfeR project (source, R code)
Diagnosing your R setup (source, R code)
Scalable Bulk Writing to Databricks: write_df_to_delta (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: dfeR_2.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: dfeR_1.0.1.zip, r-release: dfeR_1.0.1.zip, r-oldrel: dfeR_1.0.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): dfeR_2.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): dfeR_2.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): dfeR_2.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): dfeR_2.0.0.tgz
Old sources: dfeR archive

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