R Observatory: Metrics for carpenter version 0.2.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

carpenter

0.2.3Package record

Build Common Tables of Summary Statistics for Reports

0packages depend

5.1Kdownloads / year

86.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Luke JohnstonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Mainly used to build tables that are commonly presented for bio-medical/health research, such as basic characteristic tables or descriptive statistics.

Changes in 0.2.3

Fixes

Replaced deprecated dplyr functions with their modern equivalents.
Fix CRAN note about LazyData.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("carpenter", 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("lwjohnst86/carpenter")

Development version from lwjohnst86/carpenter. 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-carpenter

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-carpenter

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-carpenter

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: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-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 0.2.3

READMEYes · 283 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 7 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to carpenter HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

5.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,449 · ~14/day · ~425/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

38730 days

1K90 days

5.1K1 year

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Also on116 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

lwjohnst86/carpenter ↗Account: lwjohnst86

10Stars

4Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

89Commits

2Commit identities

rrstatssciencecharacteristic-tablestablestabledescriptive-statisticscran

89 commits · Last activity 2026-01-15 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2,541
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2022-03-23 · 92026-07-07 · 10

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/lwjohnst86/carpenter on 2026-10-18.

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 2026-01-15 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-01-15

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (3)

Lint workflowAirRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing carpenter adds 23 packages (15 with compiled code, 20 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (8)

dplyr magrittr tidyr panderutilsstatstibble rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Luke Johnston

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2016)

Releases (4)

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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-07-29
Total releases: 4 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 29 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("carpenter")

Format

Johnston, L. (2026). carpenter: Build Common Tables of Summary Statistics for Reports (Version 0.2.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.carpenter

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 carpenter version 0.2.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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