R Observatory: Metrics for datasauRus version 0.1.9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

datasauRus

0.1.9Package record

Datasets from the Datasaurus Dozen

0packages dependsuggested by 1

25Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Colin GillespieCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Jumping Rivers

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.

Changes in 0.1.9

Spring clean: linting

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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 OK2026-07-16
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-07-15
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.9

READMEYes · 222 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.9Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 10
Examples that run: 100%10 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: not tracked
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 100%

Vignettes (1)

The Datasaurus data package HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

25K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,681 · ~68/day · ~2.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.6K30 days

5.8K90 days

25K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on557 r2u8 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

jumpingrivers/datasaurus ↗Organization: jumpingrivers

346Stars

49Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

104Commits

15Commit identities

rdatasetsdatasaurusanscombesquartetr-packagerstatsdatasaurus-dozensummary-statistics

104 commits · Last activity 2026-10-14 · +0.3% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.1.10, ahead of CRAN 0.1.9 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 88%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 126
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-03 · 3312026-10-15 · 346

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/jumpingrivers/datasaurus on 2026-10-22.

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 (2)

Code of conductSupport guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-14 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-14

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing datasauRus adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

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

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

anscombiser

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (10)

Colin Gillespie

Maintainer since 0.1.8 (2024), Author · added in 0.1.8

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan

Author

Rhian Davies

Author · added in 0.1.6

Steph Locke

Author

Tim Book

Contributor · added in 0.1.6

Richard Cotton

Contributor · added in 0.1.4

Jumping Rivers

Funder · added in 0.1.6

Alberto Cairo

Data contributor

George Fitzmaurice

Data contributor

Justin Matejka

Data contributor

Previously maintained by Rhian Davies (0.1.6) and Steph Locke (0.1.2 to 0.1.4).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Locke Data

no longer listed · 0.1.4

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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

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

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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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for datasauRus version 0.1.9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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