R Observatory: Metrics for DescrTab2 version 2.1.16

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2025-10-18. Its history is shown below.

Reason: issues were not corrected despite reminders

Details below reflect version 2.1.16, its last release before removal.

DescrTab2

2.1.16

Publication Quality Descriptive Statistics Tables

0packages depend

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jan Meis5 releasesCRAN page ↗

Provides functions to create descriptive statistics tables for continuous and categorical variables. By default, summary statistics such as mean, standard deviation, quantiles, minimum and maximum for continuous variables and relative and absolute frequencies for categorical variables are calculated. 'DescrTab2' features a sophisticated algorithm to choose appropriate test statistics for your data and provides p-values. On top of this, confidence intervals for group differences of appropriated summary measures are automatically produces for two-group comparison. Tables generated by 'DescrTab2' can be integrated in a variety of document formats, including .html, .tex and .docx documents. 'DescrTab2' also allows printing tables to console and saving table objects for later use.

Install

R (source archive)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/DescrTab2/DescrTab2_2.1.16.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "DescrTab2_2.1.16.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (2.1.16) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

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-descrtab2

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

# 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-DescrTab2

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

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.81

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

20

Dependencies · direct

Documentation

READMEYes · 181 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 10%

Downloads

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (20)

statsutilsnlmeexact2x2 DescTools dplyr rlang tibble stringr forcats magrittr scales cli kableExtra flextable officer knitr rmarkdown haven Hmisc

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

testthat covr tidyverse here shiny Exact

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

–indirect (not tracked)

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Jan Meis

Author, Maintainer

Authors (4)

Author, Maintainer

Author

Author

Author · added in 2.1.7

Contributors (2)

Lorenz Uhlmann

Contributor

Csilla van Lunteren

Contributor

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Kevin Kunzmann

no longer listed · 2.0.3 to 2.1.9

Hao Zhu

no longer listed · 2.1.7 to 2.1.9

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
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-10-18
issues were not corrected despite reminders
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.1.16
2022-09-06 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.1.9
2022-01-20 · diff ↗
2.1.7
2021-12-02 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.0.7
2021-03-15 · diff ↗
2.0.3
2020-12-16
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

Total releases: 5
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("DescrTab2")

Format

Meis, J., Baumann, L., Pilz, M., Sauer, L., Uhlmann, L., & van Lunteren, C. (n.d.). DescrTab2: Publication Quality Descriptive Statistics Tables (Version 2.1.16) [Computer software]. Retrieved August 14, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=DescrTab2

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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 DescrTab2 version 2.1.16 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-13. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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