R Observatory: Metrics for randomNames version 1.6-0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

randomNames

1.6-0.0Package record

Generate Random Given and Surnames

3packages dependsuggested by 3

54Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Damian W. BetebennerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Function for generating random gender and ethnicity correct first and/or last names. Names are chosen proportionally based upon their probability of appearing in a large scale data base of real names.

Install

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

install.packages("randomNames", 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("CenterForAssessment/randomNames")

Development version from CenterForAssessment/randomNames. 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-randomnames

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-randomNames

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-randomNames

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: 1.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.6-0.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structuredCitation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 3includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Getting started with randomNames HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

54K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,970 · ~148/day · ~4.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.5K30 days

9.4K90 days

54K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on132 r2u9 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

centerforassessment/randomnames ↗Organization: CenterForAssessment

32Stars

6Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

179Commits

4Commit identities

rrandom-namesrandom-name-generatorscran

179 commits · Last activity 2024-12-09 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.6-1.0, ahead of CRAN 1.6-0.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 71
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-05-19 · 322026-07-07 · 32

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/centerforassessment/randomnames on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-12-09

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing randomNames adds 6 packages (3 with compiled code, 7.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (3)

crayon data.table toOrdinal

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

Imports 3

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

SGP NHSRwaitinglist simulist

Suggests, most downloaded first

raw ahpsurvey diffpriv

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Damian W. Betebenner

Author, Maintainer since 0.0-2 (2011)

Lambert Joshua

Contributor · added in 1.6-0.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Betebenner

no longer listed · 1.0-0.0 to 1.6-0.0

Releases (13)

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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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 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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Package metadata

First published: 2011-06-15
Total releases: 13 / 15 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Bundled data: 398 KB / 2 files
Download size: 413 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("randomNames")

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

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for randomNames version 1.6-0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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