R Observatory: Metrics for exploratory version 0.3.31

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

exploratory

0.3.31Package record

A Tool for Large-Scale Exploratory Analyses

0packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jin KimCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

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.

Changes in 0.3.31

Note to developer(s): "The errors for r-devel are from a recent change

in r-devel fixing the long-standing PR#14359, to the effect that the

formula methods for t and Wilcoxon tests defer NA handling to the

default method, and do not allow 'paired' arguments."

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-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
OK13 OK2026-05-02

Show 2 earlier changesHide 2 earlier changes

ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.31

READMEYes · 206 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.31Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes

Help pages: 26
Examples that run: 77%20 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition) · 4 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,214 · ~9/day · ~270/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

40530 days

89790 days

3.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on71 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

jinkim3/exploratory ↗Account: jinkim3

5Stars

2Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

82Commits

3Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 82 commits · Last activity 2023-10-10 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-03-09 · 52026-07-07 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jinkim3/exploratory on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (2)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2023-10-10

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing exploratory adds 117 packages (61 with compiled code, 98 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (11)

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

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

moments

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Jin Kim

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.53 (2021)

Releases (3)

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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
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-10-10
0.3.31Latest
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2023-10-10 · current release · diff ↗
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
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2021-04-22 · diff ↗ ·
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kurtosis, mann_whitney, skewness, wilcoxon_rank_sum_test
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
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2021-03-22
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-03-22
Total releases: 3 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 46 KB

Cite

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Format

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for exploratory version 0.3.31 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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