R Observatory: Metrics for datasauRus version 0.1.9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

datasauRus

0.1.9

Datasets from the Datasaurus Dozen

1packages depend

32.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Colin GillespieFirst published 2017-05-095 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The Datasaurus Dozen is a set of datasets with the same summary statistics. They retain the same summary statistics despite having radically different distributions. The datasets represent a larger and quirkier object lesson that is typically taught via Anscombe's Quartet (available in the 'datasets' package). Anscombe's Quartet contains four very different distributions with the same summary statistics and as such highlights the value of visualisation in understanding data, over and above summary statistics. As well as being an engaging variant on the Quartet, the data is generated in a novel way. The simulated annealing process used to derive datasets from the original Datasaurus is detailed in "Same Stats, Different Graphs: Generating Datasets with Varied Appearance and Identical Statistics through Simulated Annealing" doi:10.1145/3025453.3025912.

Install

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

install.packages("datasauRus", 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("jumpingrivers/datasauRus")

Development version from jumpingrivers/datasauRus. 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-datasaurus

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-datasauRus

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-datasauRus

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.21

not tracked

Coverage

0

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
OK2026-07-16
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-07-15
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 222 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 100%

Downloads

32.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,193 · ~88/day · ~2.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.1K30 days

3.6K90 days

32.3K1 year

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Also on418 r2u17 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ jumpingrivers/datasaurus

345Stars

49Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

103Commits

15Contributors

rdatasetsdatasaurusanscombesquartetr-packagerstatsdatasaurus-dozensummary-statistics

103 commits · Last activity 2025-01-23 · +0.3% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-08 · 3282026-07-22 · 345

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/jumpingrivers/datasaurus on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

Governance and community (2)

Issue templatesSupport guide

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

dplyr ggplot2 knitr rmarkdown spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

anscombiser

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (10)

Maintainer (1)

Colin Gillespie

Maintainer, Author · added in 0.1.8

Authors (4)

Colin Gillespie

Maintainer, Author · added in 0.1.8

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan

Author

Rhian Davies

Author · added in 0.1.6

Steph Locke

Author

Contributors (2)

Tim Book

Contributor · added in 0.1.6

Richard Cotton

Contributor · added in 0.1.4

Funders (1)

Jumping Rivers

Funder · added in 0.1.6

Other (3)

Alberto Cairo

Data contributor

George Fitzmaurice

Data contributor

Justin Matejka

Data contributor

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Locke Data

no longer listed · 0.1.4

Package Timeline

5 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
0.1.9Latest
2025-01-23 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.8
2024-02-27 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.6
2022-05-05 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.4
2018-09-20 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1.2
2017-05-09
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-05-09
Total releases: 5 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 352 KB / 10 files
Download size: 943 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("datasauRus")

Format

Gillespie, C., Jumping Rivers, Book, T., Cairo, A., Cotton, R., D'Agostino McGowan, L., Davies, R., Fitzmaurice, G., Locke, S., & Matejka, J. (2025). datasauRus: Datasets from the Datasaurus Dozen (Version 0.1.9) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.datasauRus

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for datasauRus version 0.1.9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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