LSTbook

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Data and Software for "Lessons in Statistical Thinking"

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Overview

About

Maintained by Daniel KaplanFirst published 2024-02-232 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

"Lessons in Statistical Thinking" D.T. Kaplan (2014) https://dtkaplan.github.io/Lessons-in-statistical-thinking/ is a textbook for a first or second course in statistics that embraces data wrangling, causal reasoning, modeling, statistical adjustment, and simulation. 'LSTbook' supports the student-centered, tidy, pipeline-oriented computing style featured in the book.

Install

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

install.packages("LSTbook", 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("dtkaplan/LSTbook")

Development version from dtkaplan/LSTbook. 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-lstbook

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

# 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-LSTbook

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Failing flavors

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Slowest check: 3.6 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.10

50.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

WARNING2026-03-10
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Documentation

READMEYes · 944 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 94%
References docs: 19%

Downloads

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,514 · ~11/day · ~332/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ dtkaplan/lstbook

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137 commits · Last activity 2026-06-26 · 0% stars, 30d

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

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15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 3.5.0

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Package metadata

First published: 2024-02-23
Total releases: 2 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 1.5 MB / 36 files
Download size: 3.2 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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