R Observatory: Metrics for ChineseNames version 2025.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ChineseNames

2025.8

Chinese Name Database 1930-2008

0packages depend

4.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Han Wu Shuang BaoFirst published 2021-04-015 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A database of Chinese surnames and given names (1930-2008). This database contains nationwide frequency statistics of 1,806 Chinese surnames and 2,614 Chinese characters used in given names, covering about 1.2 billion Han Chinese population (96.8 percent of the Han Chinese household-registered population born from 1930 to 2008 and still alive in 2008). This package also contains a function for computing multiple indices of Chinese surnames and given names for social science research (e.g., name uniqueness, name gender, name valence, and name warmth/competence). Details are provided at https://psychbruce.github.io/ChineseNames/.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("ChineseNames", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("psychbruce/ChineseNames")

Development version from psychbruce/ChineseNames. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-chinesenames

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-ChineseNames

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-ChineseNames

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,591 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

4.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,637 · ~12/day · ~353/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

24230 days

84190 days

4.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on128 r2u8 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ psychbruce/chinesenames

187Stars

26Forks

0Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

67Commits

1Contributors

chinesenamesdatabaserr-packagebig-datachinese-namechinese-names

License GPL-3.0 · 67 commits · Last activity 2025-08-20 · +1.6% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-23 · 1622026-08-21 · 187

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/psychbruce/chinesenames on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (2)

bruceR data.table

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

babynames car dplyr glue

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Han Wu Shuang Bao

Author, Maintainer · added in 2025.8

Authors (1)

Han Wu Shuang Bao

Author, Maintainer · added in 2025.8

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Han-Wu-Shuang Bao

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 2023.8

Package Timeline

5 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2025.8Latest
2025-08-19 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2023.8
2023-08-08 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.1.1
2021-11-29 · diff ↗
1.1.0
2021-06-21 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.0
2021-04-01
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-04-01
Total releases: 5 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 336 KB / 6 files
Download size: 351 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ChineseNames")

Format

Bao, H. W. S. (2025). ChineseNames: Chinese Name Database 1930-2008 (Version 2025.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ChineseNames

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ChineseNames version 2025.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-08-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

Report a problem with this page →