R Observatory: Metrics for datadictionary version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

datadictionary

1.0.1Package record

Create a Data Dictionary

0packages depend

3.7Kdownloads / year

99.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Bethany JonesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

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.

Changes in 1.0.1

Moves code from magrittr to base pipe
Corrects error that occurred when summarising partially labelled data
Adds URLs to DESCRIPTION

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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: 1.5 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
OK13 OK2026-05-02

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ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.1

READMEYes · 450 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 3 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,792 · ~10/day · ~311/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36730 days

1K90 days

3.7K1 year

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Also on97 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

doctorbjones/datadictionary ↗Account: DoctorBJones

14Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

76Commits

1Commit identities

76 commits · Last activity 2025-03-24 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.0.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.0.1 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 0%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 5
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 270

Stars over time

2024-09-23 · 112026-09-23 · 14

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/doctorbjones/datadictionary on 2026-10-21.

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 (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing datadictionary adds 39 packages (24 with compiled code, 25 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, openxlsx 1.3 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (10)

chron dplyr haven labelled lubridate openxlsxstatstibble tidyr tidyselect

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

covr testthat

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)

Bethany Jones

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2022)

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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

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 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 datadictionary version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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