R Observatory: Metrics for charlatan version 0.6.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

charlatan

0.6.2

Make Fake Data

3packages depend

16.3Kdownloads / year

89.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Roel M. HogervorstFirst published 2017-06-169 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Make fake data that looks realistic, supporting addresses, person names, dates, times, colors, coordinates, currencies, digital object identifiers ('DOIs'), jobs, phone numbers, 'DNA' sequences, doubles and integers from distributions and within a range.

Install

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

install.packages("charlatan", 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("ropensci/charlatan")

Development version from ropensci/charlatan. 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-charlatan

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-charlatan

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-charlatan

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 6.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.04

89.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 65%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

16.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,869 · ~45/day · ~1.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

61630 days

2.3K90 days

16.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on252 r2u19 autocran1.1K conda_forge

Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci/charlatan

304Stars

27Forks

30Open issues

0Open PRs

8Releases

289Commits

15Contributors

datafakerrstatsdatasetfake-datarr-packagepeer-reviewed

289 commits · Last activity 2026-01-15 · +0.3% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-29 · 3012026-08-04 · 304

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/charlatan on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

data-raw/Makefile

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Show all practices

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (3)

R6 tibble whisker

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

testthat knitr rmarkdown ipaddress stringi spelling

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

fakir r2dii.data salty

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (7)

Maintainer (1)

Roel M. Hogervorst

Maintainer, Author · added in 0.5.1

Authors (3)

Roel M. Hogervorst

Maintainer, Author · added in 0.5.1

Scott Chamberlain

Author

Kyle Voytovich

Author · added in 0.2.0

Contributors (1)

Martin Pedersen

Contributor · added in 0.3.0

Funders (1)

rOpenSci

Funder · added in 0.4.0

Reviewers (2)

Brooke Anderson

Reviewer

Tristan Mahr

Reviewer

Package Timeline

9 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.6.2Latest
2026-01-14 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.6.1
2024-10-17 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.5.1
2023-09-13 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.5.0
2022-08-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.4.0
2020-01-24 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.3.0
2018-10-18 · diff ↗
0.2.2
2018-07-06 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2018-07-04 · diff ↗

Show 3 earlier events

R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1.0
2017-06-16
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-06-16
Total releases: 9 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 0.9 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.5 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("charlatan")

Format

Hogervorst, R. M., rOpenSci, Anderson, B., Chamberlain, S., Mahr, T., Pedersen, M., & Voytovich, K. (2026). charlatan: Make Fake Data (Version 0.6.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.charlatan

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for charlatan version 0.6.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-13. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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