datapond: Query Curated 'DuckDB' Databases Built from Public Data

Connects to the 'datapond' registry of curated 'DuckDB' databases built from public government and research data (immigration courts, campaign finance, clinical trials, Medicare, and more). Databases are attached remotely over HTTP so only the byte ranges a query touches are transferred, or downloaded once for local use. Returns standard 'DBI' connections that work with 'dbplyr'.

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1)
Imports: curl (≥ 5.0.0), DBI, duckdb (≥ 1.0.0), jsonlite, tools, utils
Suggests: dbplyr (≥ 2.3.0), dplyr, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), tibble, withr
Published: 2026-09-27
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.datapond (may not be active yet)
Author: Ian Nason [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Ian Nason <ign.nason at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/datapond-db/datapond-r/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/datapond-db/datapond-r, https://datapond-db.github.io/website/
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: datapond results

Documentation:

Reference manual: datapond.html , datapond.pdf
Vignettes: Getting started with datapond (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: datapond_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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