R Observatory: Metrics for statquotes version 0.3.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

statquotes

0.3.3Package record

Quotes on Statistics, Data Visualization and Science

0packages depend

5.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael FriendlyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Generates a random quotation from a database of quotes on topics in statistics, data visualization and science. Other functions allow searching the quotes database by key term tags, or authors or creating a word cloud. The output is designed to be suitable for use at the console, in Rmarkdown and LaTeX.

Changes in 0.3.3

This is a minor release fixing CRAN issues

o Now Depends: R >= 4.1.0 due to pipes

o Fixed CRAN nits re links

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("statquotes", 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("friendly/statquotes")

Development version from friendly/statquotes. 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-statquotes

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-statquotes

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-statquotes

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
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.3

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.3Citation fileNo

Help pages: 9
Examples that run: 86%6 run in a plain check · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 88%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 88%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

5.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,780 · ~14/day · ~423/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

45130 days

1.3K90 days

5.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on68 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

friendly/statquotes ↗Account: friendly

16Stars

3Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

282Commits

5Commit identities

quotesdata-visualizationquotationstatistics

282 commits · Last activity 2026-10-22

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 75%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 56
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-03-29 · 162026-07-07 · 16

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/friendly/statquotes on 2026-10-22.

Governance and community (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-02

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing statquotes adds 25 packages (15 with compiled code, 23 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, tidytext 2.6 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (3)

stringr tidytext wordcloud

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown dplyr forcats ggplot2

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 (4)

Michael Friendly

Author, Maintainer since 0.2 (2016)

@datavisFriendly

Phil Chalmers

Author

Kevin Wright

Author · added in 0.3.1

Matthew Sigal

Contributor

Releases (6)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.3Latest
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2025-07-23 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.3.2
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2023-10-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
read_quotes_raw
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.3.1
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2022-10-13 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
quote_topics

added 2 exports
as.tagged, quote_tags
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.2.6
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2022-03-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
as.latex, as.markdown, find_duplicate_quotes, get_quotes, search_text
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
0.2.2
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2017-08-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
quote_topics
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.2
record
2016-09-06

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R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-09-06
Total releases: 6 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 87 KB / 1 file
Download size: 200 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("statquotes")

Format

Friendly, M., Chalmers, P., Sigal, M., & Wright, K. (2025). statquotes: Quotes on Statistics, Data Visualization and Science (Version 0.3.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.statquotes

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 statquotes version 0.3.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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