descr

1.1.9

Descriptive Statistics

5packages depend

135.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jakson AquinoFirst published 2009-06-0826 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Weighted frequency and contingency tables of categorical variables and of the comparison of the mean value of a numerical variable by the levels of a factor, and methods to produce xtable objects of the tables and to plot them. There are also functions to facilitate character encoding conversion of objects, to quickly convert fixed-width files into CSV ones, and to export a data.frame to a text file with the necessary R and SPSS codes to reread the data.

Install

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

install.packages("descr", 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("jalvesaq/descr")

Development version from jalvesaq/descr. 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-descr

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-descr

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-descr

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-06-08
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-06
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 16 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 71%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 93%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

135.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,243 · ~370/day · ~11.3K/mo

Releases R versions

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27.6K90 days

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Repository

GitHub ↗ jalvesaq/descr

18Stars

2Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

88Commits

1Contributors

88 commits · Last activity 2026-04-28

Stars over time

2022-07-20 · 182026-07-07 · 18

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Checks run against github.com/jalvesaq/descr on 2026-07-30.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

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LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Jakson Aquino

Maintainer

Authors (4)

Dirk Enzmann

Author

Nitin Jain

Author · added in 1.0.1

Stefan Kraft

Author · added in 1.1.9

Marc Schwartz

Author · added in 0.3.2

Listed in earlier versions (3)

Jakson Aquino. Includes R source code and/or documentation written by Dirk Enzmann

no longer listed · 0.3.2 to 1.1.8

and Nitin Jain

no longer listed · 0.3.2 to 1.0.0

and Stefan Kraft

no longer listed · 1.0.1 to 1.1.8

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Package metadata

First published: 2009-06-08
Total releases: 26 / 17 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 38 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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