R Observatory: Metrics for xplain version 0.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

xplain

0.2.2Package record

Providing Interactive Interpretations and Explanations of Statistical Results

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Joachim ZuckarelliCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Allows to provide live interpretations and explanations of statistical functions in R. These interpretations and explanations are shown when the explained function is called by the user. They can interact with the values of the explained function's actual results to offer relevant, meaningful insights. The 'xplain' interpretations and explanations are based on an easy-to-use XML format that allows to include R code to interact with the returns of the explained function.

Install

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

install.packages("xplain", 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("jsugarelli/xplain")

Development version from jsugarelli/xplain. 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-xplain

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-xplain

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-xplain

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespace in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘RCurl’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 51 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE9 OK, 5 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.2

READMEYes · 75 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 4includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,412 · ~7/day · ~228/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

25730 days

73990 days

2.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on85 r2u3 autocran96 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

jsugarelli/xplain ↗Account: jsugarelli

24Stars

3Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

9Commits

1Commit identities

learningteachingteaching-toolr-package

9 commits · Last activity 2020-07-31

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2021-02-16 · 242026-07-07 · 24

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jsugarelli/xplain on 2026-10-21.

Docs source (1)

pkgdown

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing xplain adds 34 packages (22 with compiled code, 11 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (4)

XML readr RCurl httr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

carmethods

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Joachim Zuckarelli

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.1 (2018)

Releases (2)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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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
0.2.2Latest
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2020-07-30 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.2.1
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2018-05-02
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-05-02
Total releases: 2 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 13 KB

Appears in task views

Teaching Statistics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("xplain")

Format

Zuckarelli, J. (2020). xplain: Providing Interactive Interpretations and Explanations of Statistical Results (Version 0.2.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.xplain

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 xplain version 0.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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