R Observatory: Metrics for ChineseNames version 2025.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ChineseNames

2025.8Package record

Chinese Name Database 1930-2008

0packages depend

4.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Han Wu Shuang BaoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

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/.

Changes in 2025.8

Refined help pages in the style of Roxygen markdown.

From NEWS.md in the release

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. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2025.8

READMEYes · 1,591 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2025.8Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 8 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,820 · ~11/day · ~340/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36130 days

96890 days

4.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on92 r2u12 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

psychbruce/chinesenames ↗Account: psychbruce

190Stars

26Forks

0Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

67Commits

1Commit identities

chinesenamesdatabaserr-packagebig-datachinese-namechinese-names

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 67 commits · Last activity 2025-08-20 · +1.1% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 47
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-10-12 · 1652026-10-19 · 190

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/psychbruce/chinesenames on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-08-20 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-08-20

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ChineseNames adds 147 packages (68 with compiled code, 124 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

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.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Han Wu Shuang Bao

Author, Maintainer · added in 2025.8

Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2021)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Han-Wu-Shuang Bao

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 2023.8

Releases (5)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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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

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 package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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