R Observatory: Metrics for babynames version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

babynames

1.0.1

US Baby Names 1880-2017

10packages depend

622.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Hadley WickhamFirst published 2014-07-226 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

US baby names provided by the SSA. This package contains all names used for at least 5 children of either sex.

Install

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

install.packages("babynames", 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("hadley/babynames")

Development version from hadley/babynames. 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-babynames

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

# 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-babynames

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-babynames

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 3.71

not tracked

Coverage

1

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-16
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-07-15
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 1 earlier snapshots

NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 142 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: not tracked
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 0%

Downloads

622.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #359 · ~1.7K/day · ~51.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

87.9K30 days

266.8K90 days

622.8K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ hadley/babynames

139Stars

64Forks

1Open issues

5Open PRs

6Releases

95Commits

9Contributors

rdata

95 commits · Last activity 2022-04-17 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-08 · 1362026-07-07 · 139

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/hadley/babynames on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (1)

tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

10direct

0indirect

dados datos mdsr ChineseNames fozziejoin ggalluvial ggalttext positron.tutorials r4ds.tutorials zoomerjoin

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Hadley Wickham

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Hadley Wickham

Author, Maintainer

Copyright holders (1)

RStudio

Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2014-07-22
Total releases: 6 / 12 yrs
License: CC0
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 5.2 MB / 4 files
Download size: 5.3 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("babynames")

Format

Wickham, H., & RStudio. (2021). babynames: US Baby Names 1880-2017 (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.babynames

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for babynames version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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