R Observatory: Metrics for descr version 1.1.9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

descr

1.1.9Package record

Descriptive Statistics

3packages dependsuggested by 2

116.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jakson AquinoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Weighted frequency and contingency tables of categorical variables and of the comparison of the mean value of a numerical variable by the levels of a factor, and methods to produce xtable objects of the tables and to plot them. There are also functions to facilitate character encoding conversion of objects, to quickly convert fixed-width files into CSV ones, and to export a data.frame to a text file with the necessary R and SPSS codes to reread the data.

Changes in 1.1.9

Update DESCRIPTION (replace Author and Maintainer with Authors@R).

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("descr", 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("jalvesaq/descr")

Development version from jalvesaq/descr. 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-descr

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-descr

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-descr

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: 2.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-06

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.9

READMEYes · 16 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.9Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 17
Examples that run: 71%5 run in a plain check · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 93%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

116.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,305 · ~319/day · ~9.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

9.4K30 days

22.7K90 days

116.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on2.4K r2u214 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

jalvesaq/descr ↗Account: jalvesaq

18Stars

2Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

88Commits

1Commit identities

88 commits · Last activity 2026-04-28

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 18
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2022-07-20 · 182026-07-07 · 18

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/jalvesaq/descr on 2026-10-18.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing descr adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 604 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: xtable 604 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

xtableutilsgrDevicesgraphicsstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

Imports 3

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

RCPA3 poliscidata saebnocov

Suggests, most downloaded first

pander rattle

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Jakson Aquino

Maintainer since 0.3.0 (2009)

Dirk Enzmann

Author

Nitin Jain

Author · added in 0.3.2

Stefan Kraft

Author · added in 1.0.1

Marc Schwartz

Author · added in 0.3.2

Releases (26)

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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 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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added 1 export
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
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R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17

Package metadata

First published: 2009-06-08
Total releases: 26 / 17 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 40 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("descr")

Format

Aquino, J., Enzmann, D., Jain, N., Kraft, S., & Schwartz, M. (2026). descr: Descriptive Statistics (Version 1.1.9) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.descr

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for descr version 1.1.9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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