R Observatory: Metrics for Rdatasets version 0.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Rdatasets

0.0.1Package record

Access Datasets from the Rdatasets Archive

0packages dependsuggested by 4

57.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Vincent Arel-BundockCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Download and access datasets from the Rdatasets archive (https://vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets/). The package provides functions to search, download, and view documentation for thousands of datasets from various R packages, available in both CSV and Parquet formats for efficient access.

Install

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

install.packages("Rdatasets", 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("vincentarelbundock/Rdatasetspkg")

Development version from vincentarelbundock/Rdatasetspkg. 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-rdatasets

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-Rdatasets

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-Rdatasets

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: 48 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.0.1

READMEYes · 245 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 4
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

57.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,031 · ~158/day · ~4.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.9K30 days

9.1K90 days

57.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.6K r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

vincentarelbundock/rdatasetspkg ↗Account: vincentarelbundock

2Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

16Commits

1Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 16 commits · Last activity 2025-08-03 · Default branch at 0.0.1.1, ahead of CRAN 0.0.1 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-08-29 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/vincentarelbundock/rdatasetspkg on 2026-10-22.

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-08-03

pkgdown site last built 2025-06-04, before release 0.0.1 (2025-06-06)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

CRAN-SUBMISSION

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing Rdatasets adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

nanoparquet tinytable tinytest rstudioapi tibble data.table

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 4

Suggests, most downloaded first

marginaleffects modelsummary tinytable modelbased

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Vincent Arel-Bundock

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.0.1Latest
record
2025-06-06 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-06-06
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 11 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("Rdatasets")

Format

Arel-Bundock, V. (2025). Rdatasets: Access Datasets from the Rdatasets Archive (Version 0.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.Rdatasets

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 Rdatasets version 0.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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