R Observatory: Metrics for variables version 1.1-2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

variables

1.1-2Package record

Variable Descriptions

9packages dependsuggested by 2

57.3Kdownloads / year

86.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Torsten HothornCRAN page ↗Website ↗

Abstract descriptions of (yet) unobserved variables.

Changes in 1.1-2

Don't check support if all observations are missing.

From inst/NEWS.Rd in the release

Install

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

install.packages("variables", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-variables

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-variables

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-variables

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: 50 s · r-devel-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 1.1-2

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · mentions 1.1-2Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 8includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 57%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 43%
Help pages citing references: 13%

How these are measured

Downloads

57.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,878 · ~157/day · ~4.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.8K30 days

10.5K90 days

57.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on292 r2u2 autocran111 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing variables adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

stats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

9direct

2indirect

Depends 2 · Imports 7

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

tram mlt basefun trtf tramME tramvs cotram tbm tramicp

Suggests, most downloaded first

mlt.docreg counterfactuals

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Torsten Hothorn

Author, Maintainer since 0.0-30 (2016)

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-02-19
Total releases: 9 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 7.4 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("variables")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.18637/jss.v092.i01.

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for variables version 1.1-2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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