R Observatory: Metrics for aftables version 2.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

aftables

2.1.0Package record

Create Spreadsheet Publications Following Best Practice

0packages depend

5Kdownloads / year

93.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Olivia Box PowerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Generate spreadsheet publications that follow best practice guidance from the UK government's Analysis Function, available at https://analysisfunction.civilservice.gov.uk/policy-store/releasing-statistics-in-spreadsheets/, with a focus on accessibility. See also the 'Python' package 'gptables'.

Changes in 2.1.0

Added number_formatter function for control over how numbers appear.
Bug fix: re-enabled RStudio Addin to insert code for {aftables} workflow (#151).
Bug fix: generate_workbook now runs quicker for spreadsheets with large tables.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("aftables", 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("best-practice-and-impact/aftables")

Development version from best-practice-and-impact/aftables. 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-aftables

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-aftables

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-aftables

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: 3.0 min · r-oldrel-macos-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 OK2026-07-03

Show 3 earlier changesHide 3 earlier changes

ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-03-26
NOTE3 OK, 11 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.1.0

READMEYes · 485 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.1.0Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 13 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 57%4 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 71%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 71%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (5)

How these are measured

Downloads

5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,420 · ~14/day · ~415/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

48430 days

1.5K90 days

5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on145 r2u34 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

best-practice-and-impact/aftables ↗Organization: best-practice-and-impact

58Stars

5Forks

25Open issues

1Open PRs

11Releases

285Commits

4Commit identities

rstatsrstats-packageaccessibilityspreadsheetopenxlsxreproducible-analytical-pipelineuk-gov-data-science

285 commits · Last activity 2026-08-18 · +5.5% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 98%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 58
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-25 · 502026-10-16 · 58

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

14 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/best-practice-and-impact/aftables on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-24 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-08-24

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (3)

lintrLint workflowRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing aftables adds 23 packages (15 with compiled code, 21 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, openxlsx2 1.5 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (12)

openxlsx2 pillar purrr dplyr stringr tidyselect tidyr rlangutilsyaml tibblestats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

covr knitr rmarkdown rstudioapi testthat

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 (6)

Olivia Box Power

Maintainer since 1.0.1 (2025), Contributor

Matt Dray

Author

Zachary Gleisner

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Matt Kerlogue

Contributor

Tim Taylor

Contributor

Crown Copyright

Copyright holder

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

2.1.0Latest
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2026-08-24 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
number_formatter
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.0.1
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2026-04-22 · diff ↗
2.0.0
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2026-03-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
create_config_yaml
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.2
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2025-02-19 · diff ↗
1.0.1
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2025-02-19
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2025-02-19
Total releases: 5 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 101 KB / 3 files
Download size: 1.2 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("aftables")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

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 aftables version 2.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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