R Observatory: Metrics for cataScience version 2.1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

cataScience

2.1.4Package record

Interactive Training App for Data Science and AI Skills

0packages depend

982downloads / year

76.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Shanlong DingCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

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().

Changes in 2.1.4

Added three vignettes covering installation and launch, a reproducible data-quality workflow, and guidance for running a training session.
Added a pkgdown documentation website, linked from the package metadata and README, with a function reference and searchable articles.
Added a package hex logo based on the maintainer's two cats, displayed in the README, website and vignettes.

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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: 5.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-05
ERROR9 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-01
OK7 OK2026-07-31

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.1.4

READMEYes · 427 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.1.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

982

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,270 · ~3/day · ~82/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

35630 days

98290 days

9821 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on32 r2u12 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

shanlong-who/catascience ↗Account: shanlong-who

3Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

1Open PRs

1Releases

29Commits

1Commit identities

29 commits · Last activity 2026-10-07 · +50% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-07-31 · 22026-10-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/shanlong-who/catascience 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 (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-07 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-07

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-07-21
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Commits: at least 1 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Fable 51 commit · Aug 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

27 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing cataScience adds 135 packages (70 with compiled code, 128 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

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 (5)

DSIR 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 (1)

Shanlong Ding

Author, Maintainer since 2.1.2 (2026)

Releases (3)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

2.1.4Latest
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2026-10-06 · current release · diff ↗
2.1.3
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2026-08-28 · diff ↗
2.1.2
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2026-07-30
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-07-30
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 9.4 MB

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 2.1.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.cataScience

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

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for cataScience version 2.1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-20, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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