R Observatory: Metrics for carData version 3.0-6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

carData

3.0-6Package record

Companion to Applied Regression Data Sets

5packages dependsuggested by 28

3.7Mdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Brad PriceCRAN page ↗Repository ↗Website ↗

Datasets to Accompany J. Fox and S. Weisberg, An R Companion to Applied Regression, Third Edition, Sage (2019).

Install

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

install.packages("carData", 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-cardata

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-carData

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-carData

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: 1.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

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 3.0-6

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 63
Examples that run: 100%18 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: not tracked
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 78%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.7M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #206 · ~10.2K/day · ~309.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

283.3K30 days

761.8K90 days

3.7M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on56.9K r2u274 autocran124.7K conda_forge353 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-forge.r-project.org/projects/car ↗

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Repository r-forge.r-project.org/projects/car is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

car

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

827indirect

Depends 3 · Imports 2

Suggested by 28

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

car effects rockchalk sdcMicro AOboot

Suggests, most downloaded first

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Brad Price

Author, Maintainer since 3.0-6 (2026)

John Fox

Author

Sanford Weisberg

Author

Previously maintained by John Fox (3.0-0 to 3.0-5).

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-08-28
Total releases: 7 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 937 KB / 63 files
Download size: 972 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("carData")

Format

Price, B., Fox, J., & Weisberg, S. (2026). carData: Companion to Applied Regression Data Sets (Version 3.0-6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.carData

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for carData version 3.0-6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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