R Observatory: Metrics for tabxplor version 2.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

tabxplor

2.0.1Package record

User-Friendly Tables with Color Helpers for Data Exploration

1packages depend

8.1Kdownloads / year

75.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Brice NocentiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Make it easy to deal with multiple cross-tables in data exploration, by creating them, manipulating them, and adding color helpers to highlight deviations (differences from totals, comparisons between lines or columns, contributions to variance, odds ratios, etc.) and significance (confidence intervals, stars, etc.). Create the same kind of tables for regression models, with a framework to compare model effects with their crude/observed counterpart systematically. All functions render data frames which can be easily manipulated. All tables can be exported with formats and colors to 'Excel', html and markdown.

Changes in 2.0.1

New features

**The footer under a table is a template you can edit.** Everything printed there — the weight line, the colour legend, the significance-stars key — is a <placeholder> in the table's subtext, and everything you write is a line: the order of the lines is the order of the footer. get_subtext() shows it, set_subtext() replaces it, and dropping <legend> drops the legend, in the console too. set_legend_words() re-states what that legend calls a measure, for a table grading the same ladder on another quantity. See ?tabxplor-footer.
**A note, or a second table, under a table.** set_footer_tabs() takes a tabxplor_tab and renders it as a table, or any other data.frame and renders it as a grey note; tab_note() sets that note's headers, alignment and footnote.
**Data bars.** set_bars() draws a bar chart inside the table — in html and in Excel — scaled to the column's own largest data cell, or to a ceiling you state.

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**options(tabxplor.print = "md").** A bare table prints as markdown instead of in the console or the Viewer, which is what a Quarto or R Markdown notebook knitted without pandoc needs.
**A wide html table scrolls instead of widening the page**, in a document, on a pkgdown site, in the Viewer and in jamovi alike. Its title stays outside the box, and printing lifts the clip.
**tab_html(cells = ) — write back what get_data = TRUE reads.** Hand back the same data.frame with some cells edited and each edit is written verbatim into its <td>, keeping the cell's colours, alignment and tooltip. This is the supported way to splice an input box, a link or a badge into a tabxplor table.
**The jamovi module is now built for macOS (Apple silicon and Intel), Windows and Linux**, on both jamovi lines, and published as downloadable files. It is installed by sideloading, not from jamovi's library: the procedure and the links are in the README and on the package website.

Minor improvements and fixes

**Two bugs with weighted data, both silent.** A variable whose name is not syntactic (Age group, Household weight) broke every formula built from names: with design_effect = TRUE the design-based tests returned NA with no message, and tab_reg(wt = ) stopped on a parse error.
**A subtext written by a user is escaped in html.** It is now shown, never executed — which matters for a table shared inside jamovi, where an html result can run scripts.
**Significance stars are now .05 / .01 / .001**, the discipline's usual scale, instead of .10 / .05 / .01. At the default confidence level a greyed cell can therefore no longer carry a star.
**display = "odds"** prints the odds behind a percentage — the middle rung between a percentage and an odds ratio.
**Options set in .Rprofile are no longer overwritten when the package loads.** tabxplor.print and tabxplor.theme set before library(tabxplor) now hold.
A regression's multiplicative count measure is named RoM (ratio of means) rather than IRR, so a column is headed Model_RoM; measure = "IRR" is still accepted.
The weight footer no longer mentions intervals and tests that are not in the table: a weighted table showing none of them prints only "Weighted by <wt>."
**A col_var span header is wrapped and compacted like every other header.** It was the one header no rule owned, so a long variable name widened the whole block. One visible consequence: its spaces are now narrow no-break spaces in html, as every other header's already were — code that matches a span's text literally has to allow for that.
A host table and its subordinate share one footer, instead of printing the colour legend twice in html and not at all in the console.
French translations: every multiplicative comparison that is not an odds ratio now reads *ratio*, and six mistranslated strings that were printing in English are fixed.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("tabxplor", 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("BriceNocenti/tabxplor")

Development version from BriceNocenti/tabxplor. 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-tabxplor

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-tabxplor

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-tabxplor

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: 14.2 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

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Documentation

In release 2.0.1

READMEYes · 891 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · evaluation depends on the environmentNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 2.0.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 124 (69 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 56%27 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition) · 21 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 73%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 1%

Vignettes (5)

How these are measured

Downloads

8.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,544 · ~22/day · ~677/mo

Releases R versions

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73830 days

1.5K90 days

8.1K1 year

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Also on94 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

bricenocenti/tabxplor ↗Account: BriceNocenti

2Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

432Commits

1Commit identities

r

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 432 commits · Last activity 2026-09-17 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 83%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-04-15 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/bricenocenti/tabxplor 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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-17 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-17, before release 2.0.1 (2026-09-18)

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-04-10
Seen in the repository: .claude, .claude/skills, CLAUDE.md
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Named in .gitignore: .claude
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: at least 36 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.831 commits · Jul 2026
Claude Opus 55 commits · Aug 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

36 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing tabxplor adds 29 packages (17 with compiled code, 30 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, survey 2.3 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (18)

dplyr forcats purrr rlang tibble tidyr vctrs (>= 0.3.0)cli tidyselect pillar (>= 1.6.0)statsutilslifecycle data.tablegridsurveynnetMASS (>= 7.3.0)

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (22)

fansi htmltools jmvcore knitr mirai openxlsx2 pkgload (>= 1.3.0)parallelly R6 RhpcBLASctl ggplot2 (>= 3.5.0)rmarkdown rstudioapi testthat brant svyVGAM VGAM marginaleffects withr yaml gridExtra clipr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

ggfacto

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Brice Nocenti

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.1 (2021)

Releases (13)

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2.0.1Latest
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2026-09-18 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 11 exports
get_bars, get_footer_tabs, get_legend_words, get_subtext, set_bars, set_footer_tabs, set_legend_words, set_subtext, tab_footer_text, tab_note, tab_pipe
2.0.0
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2026-08-29 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
%>%, get_ci_type, set_ci_type

added 42 exports
fmt_attr<-, conf_level_to_z, fmt_attr, forest_plot, get_caption, get_ci_method, get_col_group, get_color_bg, get_color_signif, get_model_family, get_pct_type, get_pvalue, get_row_kind, get_scale, get_test, gss_cat_data_formatting, is_lvl, jmvtabreg, new_lvl, reg_check_plots, reg_formulas, reg_measures, set_caption, set_color_palette, set_color_signif, set_model_family, set_pct_type, set_pvalue, set_ref_type, set_row_kind and 12 more
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.3.1
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2025-09-27 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.3.0
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2025-03-09 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
tab_xl_confidential

added 1 export
tab_compact
1.2.1
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2024-10-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
kable_tabxplor_style, score_from_lv1
1.2.0
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2024-08-30 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
get_diff_type

added 6 exports
get_ref_type, jmvtab, set_display, tab_get_wrapped_dimensions, tab_plot, tab_wrap_text
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.1.3
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2024-03-08 · diff ↗
1.1.2
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2024-02-08 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-01-22
1.1.1
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2024-01-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
complete_partial_totals, fct_recode_helper, tab_xl_confidential
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-09-06
check problems were not corrected in time
1.1.0
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2022-06-16 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
tab_core

added 15 exports
as_refcol, as_refrow, get_ci_type, get_col_var, get_color, get_comp_all, get_diff_type, is_refcol, is_refrow, set_ci_type, set_col_var, set_color, set_comp_all, set_diff_type, tab_num

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R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.3
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2022-04-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
fmt_get_color_code, get_digits, set_digits
1.0.2
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2021-10-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
tab_plain
1.0.1
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2021-09-14
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-09-14
Total releases: 13 / 5 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 45 KB / 4 files
Download size: 3.2 MB

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Format

Nocenti, B. (2026). tabxplor: User-Friendly Tables with Color Helpers for Data Exploration (Version 2.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.tabxplor

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for tabxplor version 2.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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