R Observatory: Metrics for crosstable version 0.9.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

crosstable needs flextable, which CRAN will archive unless its check problems are fixed by Oct 22.

crosstable

0.9.0Package record

Crosstables for Descriptive Analyses

0packages dependsuggested by 1

27.7Kdownloads / year

71.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dan ChaltielCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Create descriptive tables for continuous and categorical variables. Apply summary statistics and counting function, with or without a grouping variable, and create beautiful reports using 'rmarkdown' or 'officer'. You can also compute effect sizes and statistical tests if needed.

Changes in 0.9.0

New features

New function body_add_flextable2(): automatically adds a legend if the flextable object has a "legend" attribute. Equivalent functionality is now available in body_add_gg2(). (#100)
New argument rename_with_labels(cols), more intuitive than except. (#99)
New function ct_bind_cols() helper to combine (column-bind) two multi-by crosstables into a wider crosstable, enabling multi-column outputs with intra-group margins (**experimental**). (#97)
New argument as_flextable(allow_breaks=FALSE), to avoid breaking a table group in 2 pages. (#92)
New argument as_flextable(compact=TRUE, collapse), to collapse levels in compact format. (#98)

For example, collapse="Yes" will yield a single row for the "Yes" level, instead of a redundant Yes/No that sums up to 100%. This will only apply if there are 2 levels only, NA included. See examples for more.

Documentation

New vignette on advanced customization, demonstrating how to plug custom summary functions, effect estimators and statistical tests into crosstable(). (#112)
New hex logo! (#115)

Bug fixes and improvements

Fixed ct_compact() so that .id is kept in the output.

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Improved format_fixed() for more reproducible output across platforms. This may result in minor rounding differences. (#114)
Fixed bug in rename_with_labels() when except contains c().(#99)
Fixed bug in crosstable() when a factor variable had NA as a level (like after forcats::fct_value_to_na_level()). (#94)
Fixed as_flextable() so that compact=TRUE works in transposed (t()) crosstables (#91).
Fixed as_flextable() so that keep_id=TRUE works in multi-by crosstables (#88).

Lifecycle

compact(), conflicting with purrr::compact() and deprecated if favor of ct_compact() since 2022, has been removed from the package.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("crosstable", 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("DanChaltiel/crosstable")

Development version from DanChaltiel/crosstable. 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-crosstable

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-crosstable

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-crosstable

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: 5.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-29
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-23
OK13 OK2026-07-19

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-18
OK13 OK2026-07-03
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-25
OK13 OK2026-06-13
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK13 OK2026-05-29
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-24
OK13 OK2026-05-11
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-10
OK13 OK2026-05-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-03
OK13 OK2026-05-02
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-04-11
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-09
OK14 OK2026-04-07
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-04
OK14 OK2026-03-25
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-22
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.9.0

READMEYes · 657 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.9.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 60 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 97%34 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 58%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 98%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (5)

How these are measured

Downloads

27.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,842 · ~76/day · ~2.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.5K30 days

5.1K90 days

27.7K1 year

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Also on126 r2u12 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

danchaltiel/crosstable ↗Account: DanChaltiel

120Stars

8Forks

11Open issues

2Open PRs

17Releases

1,189Commits

7Commit identities

rdescriptive-statisticsrstatshtml-reportfrequency-tablemswordflextableofficer

1,189 commits · Last activity 2026-09-14 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.9.0.9009, ahead of CRAN 0.9.0 (checked 2026-10-11) · Discussions: 1 post

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 78%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 63
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-05 · 1162026-07-16 · 120

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/danchaltiel/crosstable on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-14 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-14

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

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Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

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CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Research and citation (1)

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Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

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

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This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-09-14
Pull request: opened by its own account
Commits: 1 by its own account · at least 1 crediting it in the message

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

36 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing crosstable adds 61 packages (38 with compiled code, 54 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, bslib 5.6 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (15)

checkmate cli dplyr flextable forcats glue lifecycle officer purrr rlangstatsstringr tibble tidyrutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (24)

callr covr crayon xml2 digest gt expss ggplot2 gmodels Hmisc hms jsonlite knitr lubridate openxlsx rmarkdown sloop stringisurvivalsystemfonts tidyselect testthat withr waldo

Enhances (0)

none

Dependencies facing archival

CRAN will archive these unless their check problems are fixed by the date shown. This package needs each one to install.

flextablefix by Oct 22

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Suggested by 1

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EDCimport

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Dan Chaltiel

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.1 (2021)

David Hajage

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Releases (15)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.9.0Latest
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2026-03-15 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
compact

added 2 exports
body_add_flextable2, ct_bind_cols
0.8.2
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2025-09-08 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.8.1
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2024-11-01 · diff ↗
0.8.0
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2024-09-30 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.7.0
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2023-11-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
body_add_table_section
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-05-29
0.6.2
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2023-05-29 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-05-20
issues were not corrected in time
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.6.1
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2023-04-04 · diff ↗
0.6.0
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2023-03-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
body_add_table_list, get_percent_pattern, is.compacted_crosstable, is.multiby_crosstable, is.transposed_crosstable, pivot_crosstable, transpose_crosstable
0.5.0
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2022-08-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
clean_names_with_labels, crosstable_reset_options, ct_compact, narm, rename_with_labels
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

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0.4.1
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2022-02-25 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-02-14
0.4.0
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2022-02-14 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-02-06
check problems were not corrected in time
0.3.2
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2021-11-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
body_replace_text_at_bkms, crosstable_options, crosstable_peek_options
0.3.1
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2021-11-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
body_add_crosstable_list, body_add_flextable_list, is.crosstable
0.2.2
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2021-10-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
af, diff_median_boot, generate_autofit_macro
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.1
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2021-03-08
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-03-08
Total releases: 15 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Bundled data: 2.9 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.4 MB

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Format

Chaltiel, D., & Hajage, D. (2026). crosstable: Crosstables for Descriptive Analyses (Version 0.9.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.crosstable

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for crosstable version 0.9.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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