R Observatory: Metrics for exploratory version 0.3.31

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

exploratory

0.3.31

A Tool for Large-Scale Exploratory Analyses

0packages depend

3.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jin KimFirst published 2021-04-223 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Conduct numerous exploratory analyses in an instant with a point-and-click interface. With one simple command, this tool launches a Shiny App on the local machine. Drag and drop variables in a data set to categorize them as possible independent, dependent, moderating, or mediating variables. Then run dozens (or hundreds) of analyses instantly to uncover any statistically significant relationships among variables. Any relationship thus uncovered should be tested in follow-up studies. This tool is designed only to facilitate exploratory analyses and should NEVER be used for p-hacking. Many of the functions used in this package are previous versions of functions in the R Packages 'kim' and 'ezr'. Selected References: Chang et al. (2021) https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=shiny. Dowle et al. (2021) https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=data.table. Kim (2023) https://jinkim.science/docs/kim.pdf. Kim (2021) doi:10.5281/zenodo.4619237. Kim (2020) https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ezr. Simmons et al. (2011) doi:10.1177/0956797611417632 Tingley et al. (2019) https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=mediation. Wickham et al. (2020) https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ggplot2.

Install

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

install.packages("exploratory", 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("jinkim3/exploratory")

Development version from jinkim3/exploratory. 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-exploratory

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-exploratory

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-exploratory

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

11

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMEYes · 206 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 77%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,536 · ~10/day · ~309/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ jinkim3/exploratory

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License GPL-3.0 · 82 commits · Last activity 2023-10-10

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Repository practices

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Continuous integration (1)

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (11)

data.table DT ggplot2 ggridges lemon lm.beta mediation remotes shiny shinydashboard weights

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Jin Kim

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Jin Kim

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

3 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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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
0.3.31Latest
2023-10-10 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-10-10
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-09-26
check issues were not corrected in time
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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
0.3.13
2021-04-22 · diff ↗
removedRemoved from CRAN
2021-03-25
policy violation Attempted to install later version from github, and that was not installable Back on CRAN on 2021-04-22
0.1.53
2021-03-22
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-04-22
Total releases: 3 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 46 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("exploratory")

Format

Kim, J. (2023). exploratory: A Tool for Large-Scale Exploratory Analyses (Version 0.3.31) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.exploratory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for exploratory version 0.3.31 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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