R Observatory: Metrics for dataMaid version 1.4.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

dataMaid

1.4.2Package record

A Suite of Checks for Identification of Potential Errors in a Data Frame as Part of the Data Screening Process

0packages depend

11.3Kdownloads / year

52.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Claus Thorn EkstrømCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Data screening is an important first step of any statistical analysis. dataMaid auto generates a customizable data report with a thorough summary of the checks and the results that a human can use to identify possible errors. It provides an extendable suite of test for common potential errors in a dataset.

Install

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

install.packages("dataMaid", 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("ekstroem/dataMaid")

Development version from ekstroem/dataMaid. 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-datamaid

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-dataMaid

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-dataMaid

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: 2.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.4.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWS· In the repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileYes · cites a publication

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 66
Examples that run: 94%49 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 78%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 88%
Help pages citing references: 12%

Vignettes (1)

Extending dataMaid

How these are measured

Downloads

11.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,643 · ~31/day · ~944/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

77530 days

1.8K90 days

11.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on109 r2u14 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ekstroem/datamaid ↗Account: ekstroem

143Stars

26Forks

15Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

496Commits

6Commit identities

data-screeningreproducible-researchdata-cleaning

496 commits · Last activity 2025-04-13 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (1.4.1) than CRAN on 2026-10-11

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-08-16 · 1412026-07-07 · 143

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ekstroem/datamaid on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-04-13

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing dataMaid adds 68 packages (37 with compiled code, 52 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, bslib 5.6 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (12)

ggplot2 gridExtra haven htmltools magrittrmethodspander rlang rmarkdown robustbase stringi whoami

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Claus Thorn Ekstrøm

Author, Maintainer since 0.9.2 (2017)

Anne Helby Petersen

Author

Releases (11)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.4.2Latest
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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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 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.4.0
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2019-12-10 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
clean

added 1 export
whoami_available
1.3.2
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2019-06-07 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.2.0
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2018-10-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
defaultHavenlabelledChecks, defaultHavenlabelledSummaries, refCat, tableVisual
1.1.2
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2018-05-03 · diff ↗

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.1.0
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2018-02-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
makeCodebook
1.0.0
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2017-11-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
isSingular, isSupported, makeDataReport, setChecks, setSummaries, setVisuals
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.9.2
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2017-01-02
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-01-02
Total releases: 11 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 34 KB / 6 files
Download size: 643 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("dataMaid")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.18637/jss.v090.i06.

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 dataMaid version 1.4.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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