R Observatory: Metrics for cataScience version 2.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

CRAN requires the check problems on this package to be fixed before 2026-08-26 or it will be archived.

cataScience

2.1.2

Interactive Training App for Data Science and AI Skills

0packages depend

168downloads / year

76.7%test coverage

9/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Shanlong DingFirst published 2026-07-301 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An interactive 'shiny' training companion for people who are new to data, developed for World Health Organization data trainings. Bundles hands-on modules for importing data, missing values, outliers, text cleaning, merging, visualization, and basic statistics, plus a set of AI-skills pages (prompting levels, a prompt gallery, AI safety rules, and a methodology case study) and an interactive quiz with per-session topic filters. Launch the app with run_cata().

Install

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

install.packages("cataScience", 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("shanlong-who/cataScience")

Development version from shanlong-who/cataScience. 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-catascience

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-cataScience

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-cataScience

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

Health

CRAN checks

4ERROR9OK

Failing flavors

ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
ERROR r-patched-linux-x86_64
ERROR r-release-linux-x86_64

Slowest check: 4.8 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 9.22

76.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

22

Dependencies · direct

Check history

ERROR2026-08-01
9 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-31
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 274 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

168

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,505 · ~0/day · ~14/mo

Releases R versions

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16830 days

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1681 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ shanlong-who/catascience

2Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

9Commits

1Contributors

9 commits · Last activity 2026-08-06

Commits over time

2026-08-02 · 72026-08-09 · 9

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/shanlong-who/catascience on 2026-08-09.

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

24 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (22)

broom bslib cowplot dplyr DT forcats ggplot2 markdown mice naniar plotly purrr readr readxl rio scales shiny skimr stringr tibble tidyr VIM

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Shanlong Ding

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Shanlong Ding

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

2.1.2Latest
2026-07-30 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-07-30
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("cataScience")

Format

Ding, S. (2026). cataScience: Interactive Training App for Data Science and AI Skills (Version 2.1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.cataScience

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for cataScience version 2.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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