R Observatory: Metrics for basepenguins version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

basepenguins

0.1.0Package record

Convert Files that Use 'palmerpenguins' to Work with 'datasets'

0packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ella KayeCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

From 'R' 4.5.0, the 'datasets' package includes the penguins and penguins_raw data sets popularised in the 'palmerpenguins' package. 'basepenguins' takes files that use the 'palmerpenguins' package and converts them to work with the versions from 'datasets' ('R' >= 4.5.0). It does this by removing calls to library(palmerpenguins) and making the necessary changes to column names. Additionally, it provides helper functions to define new files paths for saving the output and a directory of example files to experiment with.

Changes in 0.1.0

Initial CRAN submission.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("basepenguins", 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("EllaKaye/basepenguins")

Development version from EllaKaye/basepenguins. 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-basepenguins

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-basepenguins

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-basepenguins

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: 1.8 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
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 523 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 4
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Getting Started with basepenguins HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,025 · ~7/day · ~210/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

25830 days

67790 days

2.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on90 r2u23 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ellakaye/basepenguins ↗Account: EllaKaye

6Stars

1Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

154Commits

1Commit identities

154 commits · Last activity 2025-04-10 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.1.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.1.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 11
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-04-27 · 52026-07-07 · 6

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ellakaye/basepenguins on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-04-10 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-04-10

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Ella Kaye

Heather Turner

Author

Achim Zeileis

Contributor

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.0Latest
record
2025-04-08 · current release
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2025-04-08
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Download size: 38 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("basepenguins")

Format

Kaye, E., Turner, H., & Zeileis, A. (2025). basepenguins: Convert Files that Use 'palmerpenguins' to Work with 'datasets' (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.basepenguins

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for basepenguins version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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