skimr

2.2.2

Compact and Flexible Summaries of Data

30packages depend

587.6Kdownloads / year

95.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Elin WaringFirst published 2017-12-2119 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.51

95.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 2,321 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 62%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

587.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #568 · ~1.6K/day · ~49K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci/skimr

1,141Stars

82Forks

20Open issues

0Open PRs

18Releases

1,668Commits

45Contributors

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1,668 commits · Last activity 2026-01-08 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-28 · 1,1252026-07-07 · 1,141

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/skimr on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Dev Container

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Automation and maintenance (2)

Dependabotpre-commit

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

30direct

0indirect

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 4,550 (49%)HTML 1,818 (19%)Rd 1,359 (14%)Vignettes 832 (9%)Markdown 814 (9%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S340

Cyclomatic complexity: 1.0 median / 8 max
Test cases: 161 / 1.51 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

96%

Expression

95.4%

Tests / Examples

95.7% / 68% ex

Functions

142 60 exported

Complexity

1.5 avg / 8 max

Call network

142 nodes / 144 edges

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Lowest coverage

142 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
fix_windows_histograms exp	2	0%
skim_format exp	1	0%
vec_cast.skim_df.tbl_df	1	0%
vec_cast.tbl_df.skim_df	1	0%
vec_ptype2.skim_df.tbl_df	1	0%
vec_ptype2.tbl_df.skim_df	1	0%

People & History

People (27)

Maintainer (1)

Elin Waring

Maintainer, Author

Authors (6)

Elin Waring

Maintainer, Author

Eduardo Arino de la Rubia

Author

Author

Author

Author

Author

Contributors (20)

lbusett

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

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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.

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Lionel Henry

no longer listed · 1.0.7

Package Timeline

19 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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