R Observatory: Metrics for datadictionary version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

datadictionary

1.0.1

Create a Data Dictionary

0packages depend

3.6Kdownloads / year

99.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Bethany JonesFirst published 2022-07-183 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Creates a data dictionary from any dataframe or tibble in your R environment. You can opt to add variable labels. You can write the object directly to Excel.

Install

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

install.packages("datadictionary", 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("DoctorBJones/datadictionary")

Development version from DoctorBJones/datadictionary. 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-datadictionary

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-datadictionary

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-datadictionary

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.54

99.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

10

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMEYes · 450 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

3.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,802 · ~10/day · ~303/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ doctorbjones/datadictionary

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3Releases

76Commits

1Contributors

76 commits · Last activity 2025-03-24 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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Continuous integration (1)

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CRAN release process (2)

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Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (10)

chron dplyr haven labelled lubridate openxlsxstatstibble tidyr tidyselect

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none

Suggests (2)

covr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Bethany Jones

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Bethany Jones

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

3 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
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.1Latest
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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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2022-07-18
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-07-18
Total releases: 3 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 12 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("datadictionary")

Format

Jones, B. (2025). datadictionary: Create a Data Dictionary (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.datadictionary

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for datadictionary version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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