R Observatory: Metrics for descstat version 1.0-0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

descstat

1.0-0Package record

Tools for Descriptive Statistics

0packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yves CroissantCRAN page ↗

A toolbox for descriptive statistics, based on the computation of frequency and contingency tables. Several statistical functions and plot methods are provided to describe univariate or bivariate distributions of factors, integer series and numerical series either provided as individual values or as bins.

Changes in 1.0-0

descstat is now dependence free
plots use the tinyplot package

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("descstat", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-descstat

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-descstat

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-descstat

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: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-macos-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

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Documentation

In release 1.0-0

READMEYes · 502 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0-0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 12includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 83%
Documented parameters: 71%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 8%

Vignettes (1)

desctat: an R package for descriptive statistics

How these are measured

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,544 · ~9/day · ~269/mo

Releases R versions

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26430 days

82690 days

3.2K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown tinyplot

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

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People & History

People (1)

Yves Croissant

Author, Maintainer since 0.1-0 (2020)

Releases (3)

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1.0-0Latest
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2026-07-08 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 6 exports
%>%, as_bin, extract, is_bin, pre_plot, pre_print

added 9 exports
bin, type_anova, type_cont.table, type_cumul, type_freqpoly, type_histo, type_lorenz, type_pie, wide
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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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
0.1-2
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2021-02-17 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
bins_table, cls2val, indexes, recut, var_decomp

added 8 exports
%>%, as_bin, as_numeric, extract, gmean, is_bin, kurtosis, skewness
0.1-0
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2020-12-08
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-12-08
Total releases: 3 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 27 KB / 5 files
Download size: 845 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("descstat")

Format

Croissant, Y. (2026). descstat: Tools for Descriptive Statistics (Version 1.0-0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.descstat

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 descstat version 1.0-0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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