R Observatory: Metrics for desctable version 0.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

desctable

0.3.1Package record

Produce Descriptive and Comparative Tables Easily

0packages depend

3.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Maxime WackCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Easily create descriptive and comparative tables. It makes use and integrates directly with the tidyverse family of packages, and pipes. Tables are produced as (nested) dataframes for easy manipulation.

Install

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

install.packages("desctable", 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("desctable/desctable")

Development version from desctable/desctable. 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-desctable

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-desctable

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-desctable

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: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.1

READMEYes · 232 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 0.3.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 37 (19 internal)
Examples that run: 67%4 run in a plain check · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 38%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 81%
Help pages citing references: 8%

Vignettes (3)

desctable usage vignette HTML
desctable tips HTML
desctable usage vignette (deprecated) HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,394 · ~11/day · ~325/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

40030 days

98090 days

3.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on78 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

desctable/desctable ↗Account: desctable

52Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

420Commits

3Commit identities

rstatisticstidyversemarkdown

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 420 commits · Last activity 2025-08-29

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 60%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-05-31 · 522026-07-07 · 52

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

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

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2022-03-23

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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Git structural (1)

Submodules

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing desctable adds 50 packages (28 with compiled code, 42 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.2.3pander

Imports (6)

dplyr DT htmltools rlang tidyrutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown purrrsurvival

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maxime Wack

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2017)

Adrien Boukobza

Author · added in 0.1.7

Yihui Xie

Contributor · added in 0.1.9

Releases (11)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.1Latest
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2025-08-29 · current release · diff ↗
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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
0.3.0
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2022-03-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
!!!, desc_output, desc_table, desc_tests
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.9
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2020-10-17 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
pander.desctable
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.7
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2020-02-03 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.6
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2019-04-01 · diff ↗
0.1.5
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2019-03-11 · diff ↗
0.1.4
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2019-02-08 · diff ↗
0.1.3
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2018-07-11 · diff ↗

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0.1.2
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2018-05-27 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1.1
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2018-01-30 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2017-05-15
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-05-15
Total releases: 11 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.3
Download size: 532 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("desctable")

Format

Wack, M., Boukobza, A., & Xie, Y. (2025). desctable: Produce Descriptive and Comparative Tables Easily (Version 0.3.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.desctable

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

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for desctable version 0.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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