R Observatory: Metrics for descriptr version 0.6.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

descriptr

0.6.0Package record

Generate Descriptive Statistics

1packages dependsuggested by 2

24.3Kdownloads / year

95.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Aravind HebbaliCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Generate descriptive statistics such as measures of location, dispersion, frequency tables, cross tables, group summaries and multiple one/two way tables.

Changes in 0.6.0

New Features

ds_summary_stats() can handle both data.frame and numeric vector as input.

BUg Fixes

Incorrect column name generates missing output (#123)
Fix gglotp2 deprecated function warnings

Other Changes

Incorrect package alias (#122)
Migrate to testthat editioin 3 (#124)
Migrate to rhub v2 (#125)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("descriptr", 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("rsquaredacademy/descriptr")

Development version from rsquaredacademy/descriptr. 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-descriptr

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-descriptr

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-descriptr

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: 3.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.6.0

READMEYes · 150 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.6.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 39 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 97%35 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 19%
Help pages citing references: 5%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

24.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,925 · ~66/day · ~2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.4K30 days

4.9K90 days

24.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on104 r2u9 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

rsquaredacademy/descriptr ↗Organization: rsquaredacademy

34Stars

10Forks

10Open issues

1Open PRs

9Releases

484Commits

2Commit identities

descriptive-statisticsrstatsedasummary-statistics

484 commits · Last activity 2024-11-08 · Default branch at 0.6.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.6.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 99%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-11-08 · 342026-07-07 · 34

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rsquaredacademy/descriptr 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

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-11-08

pkgdown site last built 2024-11-08

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-10-17
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing descriptr adds 29 packages (15 with compiled code, 28 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (8)

dplyr ggplot2 magrittr rlang scalesstatstidyrutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

covr gridExtra knitr rmarkdown testthat vdiffr xplorerr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

StatisticTeach1

Suggests, most downloaded first

olsrr xplorerr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Aravind Hebbali

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2016)

Releases (10)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.6.0Latest
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2024-11-08 · current release · diff ↗
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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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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.5.2
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2020-12-09 · diff ↗ ·
removed 15 exports
dist_binom_perc, dist_binom_plot, dist_binom_prob, dist_chi_perc, dist_chi_plot, dist_chi_prob, dist_f_perc, dist_f_plot, dist_f_prob, dist_norm_perc, dist_norm_plot, dist_norm_prob, dist_t_perc, dist_t_plot, dist_t_prob
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.5.1
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2020-02-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
ds_group_summary_interact
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.5.0
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2019-01-22 · diff ↗ ·
removed 36 exports
binom_perc, binom_plot, binom_prob, chi_per, chi_plot, chi_prob, cross_table, f_per, f_plot, f_prob, freq_cont, freq_table, gmean, group_summary, hmean, kurtosis, launch_descriptr, multistats, norm_per, norm_plot, norm_prob, oway_tables, rindex, screener, skewness, stat_css, stat_cvar, stat_mdev, stat_mode, stat_range and 6 more

added 13 exports
ds_auto_cross_table, ds_auto_freq_table, ds_auto_group_summary, ds_auto_summary_stats, ds_plot_bar, ds_plot_bar_grouped, ds_plot_bar_stacked, ds_plot_box_group, ds_plot_box_single, ds_plot_density, ds_plot_histogram, ds_plot_scatter, ds_tidy_stats
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.4.1
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2018-03-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
ds_extreme_obs, ds_measures_location, ds_measures_symmetry, ds_measures_variation, ds_percentiles, ds_std_error, ds_twoway_table
0.4.0
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2018-02-10 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2017-12-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 38 exports
dist_binom_perc, dist_binom_plot, dist_binom_prob, dist_chi_perc, dist_chi_plot, dist_chi_prob, dist_f_perc, dist_f_plot, dist_f_prob, dist_norm_perc, dist_norm_plot, dist_norm_prob, dist_t_perc, dist_t_plot, dist_t_prob, ds_cross_table, ds_css, ds_cvar, ds_freq_cont, ds_freq_table, ds_gmean, ds_group_summary, ds_hmean, ds_kurtosis, ds_launch_shiny_app, ds_mdev, ds_mode, ds_multi_stats, ds_oway_tables, ds_range and 8 more

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0.2.0
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2017-08-31 · diff ↗
0.1.1
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2017-06-01 · diff ↗
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.0
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2016-12-28
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-12-28
Total releases: 10 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Bundled data: 3.0 KB / 2 files
Download size: 756 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("descriptr")

Format

Hebbali, A. (2024). descriptr: Generate Descriptive Statistics (Version 0.6.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.descriptr

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for descriptr version 0.6.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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