R Observatory: Metrics for UsingR version 2.0-8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

UsingR

2.0-8Package record

Data Sets, Etc. for the Text "Using R for Introductory Statistics", Second Edition

0packages dependsuggested by 2

42.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by John VerzaniCRAN page ↗

A collection of data sets to accompany the textbook "Using R for Introductory Statistics," second edition.

Install

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

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

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

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-usingr

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-UsingR

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-UsingR

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: 5.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.0-8

READMEYes · 16 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 153
Examples that run: 99%147 run in a plain check · 2 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 93%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 96%
Help pages citing references: 18%

How these are measured

Downloads

42.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,987 · ~116/day · ~3.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.7K30 days

9.5K90 days

42.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on122 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing UsingR adds 52 packages (26 with compiled code, 61 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, HistData 8.8 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (4)

R >= 2.15.0MASSHistData Hmisc

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

zoo ggplot2 vcd lubridate aplpack

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

REdaS STPGA

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

John Verzani

Author, Maintainer since 0.1-1 (2004)

Releases (23)

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Package metadata

First published: 2004-10-22
Total releases: 23 / 22 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.15.0
Bundled data: 852 KB / 124 files
Download size: 1.5 MB

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("UsingR")

Format

Verzani, J. (2026). UsingR: Data Sets, Etc. for the Text "Using R for Introductory Statistics", Second Edition (Version 2.0-8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.UsingR

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for UsingR version 2.0-8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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