describer

0.2.0

Describe Data in R Using Common Descriptive Statistics

0packages depend

3.4Kdownloads / year

91.1%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul HendricksFirst published 2015-09-032 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Allows users to quickly and easily describe data using common descriptive statistics.

Install

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

install.packages("describer", 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("paulhendricks/describer")

Development version from paulhendricks/describer. 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-describer

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-describer

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-describer

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 45 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.47

91.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,115 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,401 · ~9/day · ~285/mo

Releases R versions

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27130 days

77890 days

3.4K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ paulhendricks/describer

7Stars

1Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

34Commits

1Contributors

34 commits · Last activity 2017-07-01

Stars over time

2020-01-22 · 72026-07-07 · 7

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/paulhendricks/describer on 2026-07-30.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CIAppVeyor

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.2

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

dplyr testthat lintr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Paul Hendricks

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Paul Hendricks

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-09-03
Total releases: 2 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.2
Download size: 6.4 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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