R Observatory: Metrics for sampledatasets version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sampledatasets

0.1.0Package record

A Collection of Sample Datasets

0packages depend

5.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Renzo Caceres RossiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides a collection of sample datasets on various fields such as automotive performance and safety data to historical demographics and socioeconomic indicators, as well as recreational data. It serves as a resource for researchers and analysts seeking to perform analyses and derive insights from classic data sets in R.

Install

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

install.packages("sampledatasets", 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("lightbluetitan/sampledatasets")

Development version from lightbluetitan/sampledatasets. 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-sampledatasets

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-sampledatasets

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-sampledatasets

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 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-18
WARNING11 OK, 2 WARNING2026-07-14
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 271 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileYes · software entry only

Help pages: 6includes a package overview page
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 0%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

sampledatasets: A collection of Sample DataSets HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

5.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,343 · ~15/day · ~468/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27730 days

83390 days

5.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on66 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

lightbluetitan/sampledatasets ↗Account: lightbluetitan

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

Last activity 2024-11-19

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/lightbluetitan/sampledatasets on 2026-10-21.

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-11-19

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

ggplot2 dplyr knitr rmarkdown testthat

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 (1)

Renzo Caceres Rossi

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2024)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Rossi

no longer listed · 0.1.0

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.0Latest
record
2024-11-20 · current release
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-11-20
Total releases: 1 / 2 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 3.6 KB / 5 files
Download size: 78 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("sampledatasets")

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

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 sampledatasets version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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