R Observatory: Metrics for testDriveR version 0.5.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

testDriveR

0.5.3

Teaching Data for Statistics and Data Science

0packages depend

2.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Christopher PrenerFirst published 2018-09-014 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides data sets for teaching statistics and data science courses. It includes a sample of data from John Edmund Kerrich's famous coinflip experiment. These are data that I used for statistics. The package also contains an R Markdown template with the required formatting for assignments in my former courses.

Install

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

install.packages("testDriveR", 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("chris-prener/testDriveR")

Development version from chris-prener/testDriveR. 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-testdriver

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-testDriveR

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-testDriveR

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 55 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.07

not tracked

Coverage

0

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-16
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-07-15
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 430 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 20%

Downloads

2.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #22,112 · ~6/day · ~175/mo

Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ chris-prener/testdriver

2Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

11Releases

151Commits

3Contributors

teachingstatisticsdatasciencepackagerstatsr

License GPL-3.0 · 151 commits · Last activity 2025-02-02

Stars over time

2018-12-03 · 22026-07-07 · 2

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/chris-prener/testdriver on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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Governance and community (2)

Issue templatesPR template

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

ggplot2 knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Christopher Prener

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Christopher Prener

Author, Maintainer

Other (4)

NORC at the University of Chicago

Data contributor · added in 0.5.3

U.S. Department of Energy

Data contributor · added in 0.5.3

UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation

Data contributor · added in 0.5.3

Bill Bradley

Data contributor · added in 0.5.3

Package Timeline

4 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 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.5.3Latest
2025-02-02 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.5.2
2022-05-29 · diff ↗
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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 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.5.1
2019-02-06 · diff ↗
0.4.0
2018-09-01
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-09-01
Total releases: 4 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Bundled data: 167 KB / 5 files
Download size: 366 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("testDriveR")

Format

Prener, C., NORC at the University of Chicago, U.S. Department of Energy, UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, & Bradley, B. (2025). testDriveR: Teaching Data for Statistics and Data Science (Version 0.5.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.testDriveR

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 testDriveR version 0.5.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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