R Observatory: Metrics for fastDummies version 1.7.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fastDummies

1.7.6

Fast Creation of Dummy (Binary) Columns and Rows from Categorical Variables

50packages depend

739.6Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jacob KaplanFirst published 2017-04-2118 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Creates dummy columns from columns that have categorical variables (character or factor types). You can also specify which columns to make dummies out of, or which columns to ignore. Also creates dummy rows from character, factor, and Date columns. This package provides a significant speed increase from creating dummy variables through model.matrix().

Install

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

install.packages("fastDummies", 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("jacobkap/fastDummies")

Development version from jacobkap/fastDummies. 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-fastdummies

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-fastDummies

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-fastDummies

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

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 3.52

100.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 67%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

739.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #444 · ~2K/day · ~61.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

57.5K30 days

188.6K90 days

739.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on13.1K r2u9 autocran111.4K conda_forge59 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ jacobkap/fastdummies

42Stars

10Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

106Commits

6Contributors

dummy-columnsdummy-variabledummy-rowsdummy-databinary-data

106 commits · Last activity 2026-04-22 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-05-12 · 392026-07-07 · 42

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/jacobkap/fastdummies on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsTravis CIAppVeyor

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Coverage (1)

Codecov

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (3)

data.table tibble stringr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

testthat knitr rmarkdown covr spelling dplyr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

50direct

68indirect

and 2 more packages.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Jacob Kaplan

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Jacob Kaplan

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Benjamin Schlegel

Contributor · added in 0.1.1

Package Timeline

18 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
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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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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-04-21
Total releases: 18 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 27 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("fastDummies")

Format

Kaplan, J., & Schlegel, B. (2026). fastDummies: Fast Creation of Dummy (Binary) Columns and Rows from Categorical Variables (Version 1.7.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.fastDummies

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for fastDummies version 1.7.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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