R Observatory: Metrics for generator version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

generator

0.1.0Package record

Generate Data Containing Fake Personally Identifiable Information

0packages dependsuggested by 1

3.1Kdownloads / year

95.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul HendricksCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Allows users to quickly and easily generate fake data containing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) through convenience functions.

Install

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

install.packages("generator", 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("paulhendricks/generator")

Development version from paulhendricks/generator. 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-generator

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-generator

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-generator

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: 48 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 221 wordsVignettesNoNEWS· In the repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileNo

Help pages: 10includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%9 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,856 · ~8/day · ~256/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

26630 days

72190 days

3.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on71 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

paulhendricks/generator ↗Account: paulhendricks

24Stars

5Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

26Commits

1Commit identities

26 commits · Last activity 2017-07-01 · Default branch at 0.1.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.1.0 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-01-28 · 242026-07-07 · 24

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/paulhendricks/generator on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CI (config file)AppVeyor

Docs source (2)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2017-07-01

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.2

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

detector

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Paul Hendricks

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2015)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.1.0Latest
record
2015-08-26 · current release
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-08-26
Total releases: 1 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.2
Download size: 27 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("generator")

Format

Hendricks, P. (2015). generator: Generate Data Containing Fake Personally Identifiable Information (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.generator

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 generator version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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