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r-owidapi vs rempsyc
A side-by-side editorial comparison of r-owidapi and rempsyc — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Shared themes:r-package
r-owidapi vs rempsyc: at a glance
What is r-owidapi?
The R client for Our World in Data found its search had been reading a tenth of the catalog.
owidapi is a small R client for Our World in Data, covering chart data retrieval, metadata, the full chart catalog, and search over it, with experimental Shiny output helpers. It is three releases old and the most recent one is almost entirely repair: the catalog function was silently truncating at 1000 rows because of a Datasette row cap, which meant search had been operating on a fraction of what exists.
What is rempsyc?
Publication-ready psychology tables and plots, tracking APA style as closely as the software allows.
rempsyc produces APA-formatted tables and figures for psychology research — nice_table() for results tables, plus plotting helpers for scatter plots, violin plots, densities and simple slopes. Its releases are CRAN submissions that bundle a long run of development versions, so each entry reads as a digest rather than a single change. The most recent, 0.2.0, added point labelling and per-group correlation statistics to nice_scatter and fixed nice_lm() failing on factor covariates with more than two levels.
r-owidapi vs rempsyc: editorial side-by-side
r-owidapi
2.5ANALYTICS
The R client for Our World in Data found its search had been reading a tenth of the catalog.
◆ Current state
owidapi is a small R client for Our World in Data, covering chart data retrieval, metadata, the full chart catalog, and search over it, with experimental Shiny output helpers. It is three releases old and the most recent one is almost entirely repair: the catalog function was silently truncating at 1000 rows because of a Datasette row cap, which meant search had been operating on a fraction of what exists.
◆ Where it's heading
Development is about making a thin wrapper trustworthy against an upstream that moves without notice. The truncation fix pages through the catalog properly; a separate fix stops the function breaking when Our World in Data dropped a column, by parsing typed columns only when present. Tests moved to mocked responses, with a small live suite retained purely to detect schema drift and skipped on CRAN — a sensible design for a package whose main risk is that the API changes shape rather than that the code is wrong. The user-facing surface has not grown since the initial release; the work is in defending it.
◆ Prediction
On this pattern the next release is likelier to be another upstream-compatibility fix than new functionality, with the schema-drift tests the mechanism that surfaces it.
rempsyc
0.0ANALYTICS
Publication-ready psychology tables and plots, tracking APA style as closely as the software allows.
◆ Current state
rempsyc produces APA-formatted tables and figures for psychology research — nice_table() for results tables, plus plotting helpers for scatter plots, violin plots, densities and simple slopes. Its releases are CRAN submissions that bundle a long run of development versions, so each entry reads as a digest rather than a single change. The most recent, 0.2.0, added point labelling and per-group correlation statistics to nice_scatter and fixed nice_lm() failing on factor covariates with more than two levels.
◆ Where it's heading
Two forces drive this package and neither is its own roadmap. The first is APA style: when the 7th edition advised against beta for standardized coefficients, the package switched its output to italic b with an asterisk. The second is the surrounding ecosystem — formatting is aligned to what lavaanExtra and afex produce, contrast handling was delegated to easystats' modelbased, and Excel correlation matrix export was handed entirely to the correlation package to cut maintenance.
◆ Prediction
The pattern of delegating functionality to specialist packages while keeping the formatting layer is well established and likely continues. Because releases bundle many small dev versions, the next one will probably again mix plotting refinements with fixes surfaced by upstream changes.
Alternatives to r-owidapi and rempsyc
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kde1d
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gghighlight
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Recent activity from r-owidapi and rempsyc
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 20d agor-owidapiCatalog was silently capped at 1000 charts; now paged in full
- 11mo agorempsycPoint labels and per-group correlations added to nice_scatter
- 1y agor-owidapiRequest logic consolidated, with graceful catalog errors
- 1y agor-owidapiFirst release: data, metadata, catalog and search
- 1y agorempsycExcel correlation export delegated to the correlation package
- 2y agorempsycTable spacing control and a fix for name collision with afex
- 2y agorempsycStandardized coefficients switch to APA 7th edition b* notation
- 2y agorempsycLegend and standardization-check fixes
- 2y agorempsycnice_table starts coercing model objects automatically
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between r-owidapi and rempsyc?
Both compete on the same themes — r-package — within Analytics. r-owidapi is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is r-owidapi better than rempsyc?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. r-owidapi is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to r-owidapi?
Top r-owidapi alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "r-owidapi alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/r-owidapi for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to rempsyc?
Top rempsyc alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "rempsyc alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/rempsyc for the full list with editorial commentary on each.