TeachingDemos

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Demonstrations for Teaching and Learning

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Overview

About

Maintained by Greg SnowFirst published 2005-07-1231 releasesCRAN page ↗

Demonstration functions that can be used in a classroom to demonstrate statistical concepts, or on your own to better understand the concepts or the programming.

Install

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

install.packages("TeachingDemos", 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-teachingdemos

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-TeachingDemos

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

Health

CRAN checks

4NOTE9OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 3.1 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

99%

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Dependencies · direct

Check history

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Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 96%
Documented parameters: 89%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 65%

Downloads

117.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

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Dependencies

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8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

15direct

1indirect

RcmdrPlugin.TeachingDemos RcmdrPlugin.UCA brxx CSHShydRology GPCMlasso HDSpatialScan RBPcurve TipDatingBeast bexy bssbinom geospt icensBKL palaeoSig BioStatR metafolio

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

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Listed in earlier versions (1)

Greg Snow

no longer listed · 2.2.0 to 2.13

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Package metadata

First published: 2005-07-12
Total releases: 31 / 21 yrs
License: Artistic-2.0 OSI
Bundled data: 192 KB / 8 files
Download size: 335 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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