R Observatory: Metrics for fun version 0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fun

0.4Package record

Use R for Fun

0packages depend

7.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yihui XieCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

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

Changes in 0.4

Re-saved the data tagData for R >= 3.5.0.
Added suggested packages (used in demos) in the DESCRIPTION file per CRAN's request.

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-macos-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 0.4

READMEYes · 30 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 12includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 83%10 run in a plain check (4 of them under a condition) · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 60%
Help pages citing references: 58%

Also includes 9 demo scripts (run with demo())

How these are measured

Downloads

7.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,746 · ~19/day · ~590/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

59530 days

1.7K90 days

7.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on76 r2u10 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

yihui/fun ↗Account: yihui

53Stars

39Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

122Commits

7Commit identities

rr-package

122 commits · Last activity 2026-02-26 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.4.1, ahead of CRAN 0.4 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 80%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 31
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-07 · 512026-07-29 · 53

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/yihui/fun 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 (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

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.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer since 0.1-0 (2011)

Yixuan Qiu

Author

Taiyun Wei

Author

Releases (4)

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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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2020-10-23 · diff ↗
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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
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

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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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2011-08-12
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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

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 package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 v2026-10-18. 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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