R Observatory: Metrics for forcats version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

forcats

1.0.1

Tools for Working with Categorical Variables (Factors)

250packages dependsuggested by 130

6.8Mdownloads / year

99.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hadley WickhamCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Helpers for reordering factor levels (including moving specified levels to front, ordering by first appearance, reversing, and randomly shuffling), and tools for modifying factor levels (including collapsing rare levels into other, 'anonymising', and manually 'recoding').

Changes in 1.0.1

fct_cross() now varies the levels in the last factor fastest (@Adam-AKong, #373).
Functions that create a new factor (e.g. lvls_expand(), lvls_reorder(), fct_lump_n(), fct_drop()) now preserves the class of the original object in addition to the attributes (#83).
forcats now requires R 4.1.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("forcats", 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("tidyverse/forcats")

Development version from tidyverse/forcats. 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-forcats

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-forcats

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-forcats

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: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.1

READMEYes · 301 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 29 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%27 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 96%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 19%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to forcats HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

6.8M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #136 · ~18.8K/day · ~570.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

475.1K30 days

1.3M90 days

6.8M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on98.7K r2u148 autocran1.2M conda_forge19K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

tidyverse/forcats ↗Organization: tidyverse

557Stars

135Forks

21Open issues

6Open PRs

10Releases

383Commits

59Commit identities

rfactortidyverse

383 commits · Last activity 2026-02-02 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.0.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.0.1 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 69%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 248
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-09-18 · 5502026-09-04 · 557

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/tidyverse/forcats on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (5)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templatesCODEOWNERSSupport guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-02-02 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-09-25

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

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Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing forcats adds 10 packages (7 with compiled code, 4.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (6)

cli glue lifecycle magrittr rlang tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

covr dplyr ggplot2 knitr readr rmarkdown testthat (>= 3.0.0)withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

250direct

810indirect

Imports 250

Suggested by 130

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 202 more dependents and 130 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Hadley Wickham

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2016)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.0.1

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 1.0.0

Releases (10)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.1Latest
record
2025-09-25 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.0
record
2023-01-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
fct_na_level_to_value, fct_na_value_to_level
0.5.2
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2022-08-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
fct
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.5.1
record
2021-01-27 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.5.0
record
2020-03-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
fct_lump_lowfreq, fct_lump_n, fct_lump_prop, first2
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.4.0
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2019-02-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
fct_cross, fct_inseq, fct_lump_min, fct_match
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.3.0
record
2018-02-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
last2

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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.2.0
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2017-01-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
as_factor, fct_other, fct_relabel
0.1.1
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2016-09-16 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2016-08-29
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-08-29
Total releases: 10 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL-3 in 0.5.1
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Bundled data: 72 KB / 1 file
Download size: 288 KB

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Cite this package

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citation("forcats")

Format

Wickham, H., & Posit Software, PBC. (2025). forcats: Tools for Working with Categorical Variables (Factors) (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.forcats

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for forcats version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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