ViewR

2.0.0

Advanced Interactive Data Tables and Data Explorer

0packages depend

982downloads / year

26.4%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Mahesh DivakaranFirst published 2026-05-072 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An advanced, interactive data table and data explorer for R, delivered as a modern, self-contained 'htmlwidget' with a high-performance virtualized grid. ViewR renders 'Kaggle'-style micro-dashboard column headers complete with data-type badges, mini distribution spark-histograms, and data-completeness (missingness) bars. It provides hover metadata cards, a sliding Data Insights drawer with interactive histograms and 'Pareto' category charts, a multi-condition visual query builder (AND/OR), a column visibility picker, and a reproducible code generator that emits 'dplyr', base R, and 'SQL' that matches the active filter and column state. The interface is implemented entirely in dependency-free vanilla 'JavaScript' (no 'React' or build toolchain) and works in the 'RStudio'/'Positron' Viewer, inside 'Shiny' apps, in 'R Markdown'/'Quarto', or as a portable standalone 'HTML' file. A single call to viewr() opens the explorer; the legacy 'Shiny'-gadget ViewR() editor remains available.

Install

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

install.packages("ViewR", 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("itsmdivakaran/viewR")

Development version from itsmdivakaran/viewR. 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-viewr

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

# 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-ViewR

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-ViewR

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

Health

CRAN checks

1ERROR12OK

Failing flavors

ERROR r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.33

26.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

ERROR2026-06-05
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-07
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 686 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 20%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

982

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,586 · ~3/day · ~82/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ itsmdivakaran/viewr

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23 commits · Last activity 2026-06-03 · 0% stars, 30d

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (10)

htmlwidgets htmltools jsonlite (>= 1.8.0)shiny DT rhandsontable (>= 0.3.8)shinyjs shinythemesstatsutils

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none

Suggests (7)

haven tibble dplyr knitr rmarkdown testthat covr

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Mahesh Divakaran

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Authors (1)

Mahesh Divakaran

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Package Timeline

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2.0.0Latest
2026-06-04 · current release · diff ↗
1.0.0
2026-05-07
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-05-07
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
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