Rdatasets

0.0.1

Access Datasets from the Rdatasets Archive

4packages depend

70.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Vincent Arel-BundockFirst published 2025-06-061 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Download and access datasets from the Rdatasets archive (https://vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets/). The package provides functions to search, download, and view documentation for thousands of datasets from various R packages, available in both CSV and Parquet formats for efficient access.

Install

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

install.packages("Rdatasets", 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("vincentarelbundock/Rdatasetspkg")

Development version from vincentarelbundock/Rdatasetspkg. 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-rdatasets

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-Rdatasets

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-release-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.01

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 245 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

70.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,751 · ~194/day · ~5.9K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ vincentarelbundock/rdatasetspkg

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License GPL-3.0 · 16 commits · Last activity 2025-08-03 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/vincentarelbundock/rdatasetspkg on 2026-07-26.

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

CRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

nanoparquet tinytable tinytest rstudioapi tibble data.table

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

marginaleffects modelbased modelsummary tinytable

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Vincent Arel-Bundock

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Vincent Arel-Bundock

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Vincent Arel-Bundock

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2026-03-10 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-06-06
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 11 KB
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