fivethirtyeight

0.6.2

Data and Code Behind the Stories and Interactives at 'FiveThirtyEight'

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41.6Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Albert Y. KimFirst published 2017-01-098 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Datasets and code published by the data journalism website 'FiveThirtyEight' available at <https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data>. Note that while we received guidance from editors at 'FiveThirtyEight', this package is not officially published by 'FiveThirtyEight'.

Install

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

install.packages("fivethirtyeight")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

pak::pak("rudeboybert/fivethirtyeight")

Development version from rudeboybert/fivethirtyeight. Requires the pak package.

Release

# one-time r2u setup for Ubuntu (noble)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash

# then install

sudo apt install r-cran-fivethirtyeight

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). Run the setup once per machine.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

sudo dnf copr enable iucar/cran

sudo dnf install R-CRAN-fivethirtyeight

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

sudo zypper install R-fivethirtyeight

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS.

Health

CRAN checks

13NOTE

Failing flavors

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Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

Yes

Vignettes

README

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-06-09
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ERROR2026-06-08
0 OK · 12 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
0 OK · 14 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Downloads

41.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,218 · ~114/day · ~3.5K/mo

1.2K30 days

4.2K90 days

41.6K1 year

Also on199 r2u23 autocran2.2K conda_forge

Source & community

GitHub ↗

Repository stars, issues, and contributor activity are not tracked yet.

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.4

Imports (0)

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LinkingTo (0)

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Suggests (11)

ggplot2 dplyr tidyr readr tibble stringr broom knitr rmarkdown patchwork fivethirtyeightdata

Enhances (0)

none

Reverse dependencies

1direct

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Rbearcat

Code

9,555Lines of code

0Exported functions

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Functions

3 0 exported

Complexity

1.7 avg / 2 max

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3 nodes / 0 edges

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Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.

People & History

People (29)

Maintainer (1)

Albert Y. Kim iD

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Authors (2)

Jennifer Chunn

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Release timeline

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2021-10-07 · current release
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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 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-01-09
Total releases: 8 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet