R Observatory: Metrics for fivethirtyeight version 0.6.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fivethirtyeight

0.6.2Package record

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

0packages dependsuggested by 3

35.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Albert Y. KimCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

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'.

Changes in 0.6.2

Fixed bugs in tame.Rmd vignettes

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("fivethirtyeight", 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("rudeboybert/fivethirtyeight")

Development version from rudeboybert/fivethirtyeight. 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-fivethirtyeight

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-fivethirtyeight

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-fivethirtyeight

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTERd filesr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

checkRd: (-1) food_world_cup.Rd:70: Lost braces in \itemize; meant \describe ?
checkRd: (-1) food_world_cup.Rd:71: Lost braces in \itemize; meant \describe ?
checkRd: (-1) food_world_cup.Rd:72: Lost braces in \itemize; meant \describe ?
checkRd: (-1) food_world_cup.Rd:73: Lost braces in \itemize; meant \describe ?
checkRd: (-1) food_world_cup.Rd:74: Lost braces in \itemize; meant \describe ?
checkRd: (-1) food_world_cup.Rd:75: Lost braces in \itemize; meant \describe ?

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Albert Y. Kim <albert.ys.kim@gmail.com>’

Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style personList() or
as.personList().  Please use c() on person objects instead.
Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry().  Please
use bibentry() instead.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR12 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.6.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.6.2Citation fileYes · cites a publication

Help pages: 127includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%19 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: not tracked
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

35.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,702 · ~96/day · ~2.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

6K30 days

12.6K90 days

35.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on134 r2u11 autocran1.9K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

rudeboybert/fivethirtyeight ↗Account: rudeboybert

459Stars

108Forks

7Open issues

1Open PRs

8Releases

671Commits

34Commit identities

datajournalismstatisticsdata-sciencecranrfivethirtyeightrpackage

671 commits · Last activity 2022-12-14 · +0.2% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.6.2.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.6.2 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 79%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 33
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-08-23 · 4522026-10-18 · 459

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rudeboybert/fivethirtyeight on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (2)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2021-10-05

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

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

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing fivethirtyeight adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.4

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

ggplot2 dplyr tidyr readr tibble stringr broom knitr rmarkdown patchwork fivethirtyeightdata

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 3

Suggests, most downloaded first

gglm coursekata Rbearcat

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (29)

Albert Y. Kim

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2017)

Jennifer Chunn

Author

Chester Ismay

Author

Pradeep Adhokshaja

Contributor · added in 0.3.0

Anna Ballou

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Jane Bang

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Olivia Barrows

Contributor · added in 0.3.0

Alina Barylsky

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Ben Baumer

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Jonathan Bouchet

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Lizette Carpenter

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

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Andrew Flowers

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Rana Gahwagy

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Natalia Iannucci

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Jessica Keast

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Fatima Keita

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Meredith Manley

Contributor · added in 0.4.0

Danica Miguel

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Jojo Miller

Contributor · added in 0.3.0

Jordan Moody

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

G. Elliott Morris

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Jayla Nakayama

Contributor · added in 0.3.0

Sunni Raleigh

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Irene Ryan

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Maggie Shea

Contributor · added in 0.4.0

Adam Spannbauer

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Marium Tapal

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Kara Van Allen

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Starry Yujia Zhou

Contributor · added in 0.5.0

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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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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2019-07-31 · diff ↗
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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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2018-02-11 · diff ↗
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2017-08-08 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

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2017-03-15 · diff ↗
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2017-01-09
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-01-09
Total releases: 8 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Additional repositories: fivethirtyeightdata.github.io
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.4
Bundled data: 3.0 MB / 129 files
Download size: 3.8 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("fivethirtyeight")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for fivethirtyeight version 0.6.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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