R Observatory: Metrics for skimr version 2.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

skimr

2.2.2Package record

Compact and Flexible Summaries of Data

12packages dependsuggested by 19

539.5Kdownloads / year

95.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Elin WaringCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A simple to use summary function that can be used with pipes and displays nicely in the console. The default summary statistics may be modified by the user as can the default formatting. Support for data frames and vectors is included, and users can implement their own skim methods for specific object types as described in a vignette. Default summaries include support for inline spark graphs. Instructions for managing these on specific operating systems are given in the "Using skimr" vignette and the README.

Install

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

install.packages("skimr", 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("ropensci/skimr")

Development version from ropensci/skimr. 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-skimr

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-skimr

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-skimr

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: 2.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.2.2

READMEYes · 2,321 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · does not mention 2.2.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 20 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%8 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 54%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 62%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

539.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #588 · ~1.5K/day · ~45K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

38.3K30 days

108K90 days

539.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on7.7K r2u117 autocran7.9K conda_forge74 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/skimr ↗Organization: ropensci

1,143Stars

81Forks

20Open issues

0Open PRs

18Releases

1,668Commits

45Commit identities

unconf17rsummary-statisticsropensciunconfr-packagerstatspeer-reviewed

1,668 commits · Last activity 2026-01-08 · +0.1% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 90%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 60
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-13 · 1,1312026-09-24 · 1,143

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

15 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 9 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/skimr 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 (2)

Code of conduct (inherited from ropensci)Contributing guide

Docs source (2)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2019-05-27

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 5 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Dev Container

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Automation and maintenance (2)

Dependabotpre-commit

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing skimr adds 31 packages (19 with compiled code, 20 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (14)

cli dplyr knitr pillar purrr repr rlangstatsstringr tibble tidyr tidyselectutilsvctrs

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

data.table dtplyr extrafont haven lubridate rmarkdown testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

12direct

0indirect

Imports 12

Suggested by 19

Show all 31 packagesHide all 31 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

btw mdsr codebook BOLDconnectR REDCapSync NIMAA chronicle AdverseEvents cataScience dataCompare datareportR studentlife

Suggests, most downloaded first

aisdk panelr BDgraph AMR papaja mvabund ssgraph liver REDCapTidieR HVT fastml sdcLog tidyprompt misc dispositionEffect tidyREDCap industRial read.abares SHARK4R

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (27)

Elin Waring

Maintainer since 1.0 (2017), Author

Eduardo Arino de la Rubia

Author

Author

Author

Author

Author

Contributor · added in 1.0.2

Scott Brenstuhl

Contributor

Kyle Butts

Contributor · added in 2.1.2

Patrick Kennedy

Contributor · added in 1.0.5

Connor Kirkpatrick

Contributor

Mikko Korpela

Contributor · added in 1.0.2

Julia Lowndes

Contributor

Harris McGehee

Contributor · added in 1.0.2

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Hope McLeod

Contributor

Henry Morgan Stewart

Contributor · added in 2.1.4

Kirill Müller

Contributor

Daniel Possenriede

Contributor · added in 1.0.6

Mark Roepke

Contributor · added in 2.1

Olivier Roy

Contributor · added in 2.2.1

Rick Saporta

Contributor · added in 2.1.3

Patrick Schratz

Contributor · added in 1.0.2

Jennifer Thompson

Contributor · added in 1.0.2

Bastian Torges

Contributor · added in 2.1.3

Hadley Wickham

Contributor

David Zimmermann

Contributor · added in 2.1.2

RStudio, Inc.

Copyright holder

Spark functions

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Lionel Henry

no longer listed · 1.0.7

Releases (19)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.2.2Latest
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2026-01-10 · current release · diff ↗
2.2.1
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2025-07-27 · diff ↗ ·
removed 8 exports
%>%, contains, ends_with, everything, matches, num_range, one_of, starts_with

added 2 exports
max_date, min_date
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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
2.1.5
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2022-12-23 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.1.4
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2022-04-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
has_skimmers
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.1.3
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2021-03-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
dt_key
2.1.2
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2020-07-06 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
2.1.1
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2020-04-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
assert_is_one_skim_df, has_skim_type_attribute, is_data_frame, is_one_skim_df
2.1
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2020-02-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
n_complete
2.0.2
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2019-11-26 · diff ↗

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2.0.1
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2019-11-24 · diff ↗
2.0
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2019-11-21 · diff ↗ ·
removed 10 exports
filter, kable, n_complete, pander, pander.skim_df, pander.summary_skim_df, show_formats, show_skimmers, skim_format_defaults, skim_with_defaults

added 30 exports
assert_is_skim_df, assert_is_skim_list, base_skimmers, bind, complete_rate, could_be_skim_df, data_cols, data_rows, df_name, focus, get_default_skimmer_names, get_default_skimmers, get_one_default_skimmer, get_one_default_skimmer_names, get_sfl, group_names, has_skimr_attributes, has_type_column, has_variable_column, is_skim_df, is_skim_list, modify_default_skimmers, n_whitespace, partition, sfl, skim_without_charts, skimmers_used, to_long, top_counts, yank
1.0.7
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2019-06-20 · diff ↗
1.0.6
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2019-05-27 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.0.5
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2019-02-25 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
arrange.skim_df, filter.skim_df, mutate.skim_df, select.skim_df, slice.skim_df

added 1 export
filter
1.0.4
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2019-01-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
arrange.skim_df, filter.skim_df, mutate.skim_df, select.skim_df, slice.skim_df
1.0.3
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2018-06-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
fix_windows_histograms, pander, pander.skim_df, pander.summary_skim_df
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.0.2
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2018-04-02 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
pander
1.0.1
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2018-01-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
pander
1.0
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2017-12-21
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-12-21
Total releases: 19 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 1.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("skimr")

Format

Waring, E., lbusett, Arino de la Rubia, E., Brenstuhl, S., Butts, K., Ellis, S., Kennedy, P., Kirkpatrick, C., Korpela, M., Lowndes, J., McGehee, H., McLeod, H., McNamara, A., Morgan Stewart, H., Müller, K., Possenriede, D., Quinn, M., RStudio, Inc., , Roepke, M., Roy, O., Saporta, R., Schratz, P., Thompson, J., Torges, B., Wickham, H., Zhu, H., & Zimmermann, D. (2026). skimr: Compact and Flexible Summaries of Data (Version 2.2.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.skimr

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for skimr version 2.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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