R Observatory: Metrics for essentialstools version 0.1.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

essentialstools

0.1.8Package record

Datasets and Utilities for Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by James WitnauerCRAN page ↗

Provides instructional datasets and simple wrapper functions for selected analyses used in 'Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences' (Gravetter et al., 2026). The package is intended to support textbook examples by distributing data in a form that is easy for students and instructors to access within R. Current functionality includes packaged datasets and convenience wrappers for functions from 'ez', 'pwr', and 'WebPower' for analysis of variance and statistical power calculations.

Changes in 0.1.8

Dataset updates

Expanded the package to include 12 datasets.
Added exercise, hummingbird, and intuition datasets.
Retained previously available datasets.

Included datasets

EVData - Electric Vehicle Population Data
SearchData - Interactive Search Data
SleepData - Sleep Duration Data
balance_duration - Balance Duration Data
birdRT - Bird Reaction Time Data
blick - Blick Data
exercise

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hummingbird
illusion - Illusion Data
intuition - Intuition Data
music - Music Business Survey Data
rapport - Rapport Data

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("essentialstools", 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-essentialstools

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-essentialstools

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-essentialstools

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: 1.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK5 OK2026-03-17

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.8

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1.8Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 15
Examples that run: 100%9 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,565 · ~8/day · ~247/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34130 days

88690 days

3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on55 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing essentialstools adds 70 packages (38 with compiled code, 57 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, doBy 4.3 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (3)

ez WebPower pwr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

James Witnauer

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.2 (2026)

Releases (5)

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0.1.8Latest
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2026-10-14 · current release · diff ↗ ·
listed once in CRAN's queue
Seen in one reading of CRAN's incoming queue, at 2026-10-14 22:54 UTC, so it stayed less than the time between readings.
0.1.7
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2026-06-04 · diff ↗
0.1.6
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2026-06-02 · diff ↗
0.1.4
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2026-05-18 · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.2
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2026-03-16
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Across CRAN, the median accepted release of the past year spent 23 hours in the queue, 90% under 11 days.How queue time is measured

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-16
Total releases: 5 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 5.8 KB / 12 files
Download size: 14 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("essentialstools")

Format

Witnauer, J. (2026). essentialstools: Datasets and Utilities for Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (Version 0.1.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.essentialstools

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 essentialstools version 0.1.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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