R Observatory: Metrics for fun version 0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fun

0.4

Use R for Fun

0packages depend

7.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Yihui XieFirst published 2011-08-124 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A collection of R games and other funny stuff, such as the classic Mine sweeper and sliding puzzles.

Install

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

install.packages("fun", 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("yihui/fun")

Development version from yihui/fun. 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-fun

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-fun

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-fun

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

0

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 30 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 83%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 60%
References docs: 58%

Downloads

7.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,288 · ~20/day · ~606/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

35030 days

1.2K90 days

7.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on99 r2u15 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ yihui/fun

53Stars

39Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

122Commits

7Contributors

rr-package

122 commits · Last activity 2026-02-26 · +1.9% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-12-28 · 472026-07-29 · 53

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/yihui/fun on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

rgl tuneR

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer

Yixuan Qiu

Author

Taiyun Wei

Author

Package Timeline

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13

Package metadata

First published: 2011-08-12
Total releases: 4 / 15 yrs
License: GPL
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 1.4 KB / 1 file
Download size: 53 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("fun")

Format

Xie, Y., Qiu, Y., & Wei, T. (2026). fun: Use R for Fun (Version 0.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.fun

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 fun version 0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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