desctable

0.3.1

Produce Descriptive and Comparative Tables Easily

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5.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Maxime WackFirst published 2017-05-1511 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Easily create descriptive and comparative tables. It makes use and integrates directly with the tidyverse family of packages, and pipes. Tables are produced as (nested) dataframes for easy manipulation.

Install

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

install.packages("desctable", 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("desctable/desctable")

Development version from desctable/desctable. 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-desctable

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-desctable

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: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

95%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 232 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 67%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 81%
References docs: 8%

Downloads

5.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,195 · ~15/day · ~442/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ desctable/desctable

52Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

420Commits

3Contributors

rstatisticstidyversemarkdown

License GPL-3.0 · 420 commits · Last activity 2025-08-29

Stars over time

2024-05-31 · 522026-07-07 · 52

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/desctable/desctable on 2026-08-03.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

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Git structural (1)

Submodules

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.2.3pander

Imports (6)

dplyr DT htmltools rlang tidyrutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown purrrsurvival

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Maxime Wack

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Maxime Wack

Author, Maintainer

Adrien Boukobza

Author · added in 0.1.7

Contributors (1)

Yihui Xie

Contributor · added in 0.1.9

Package Timeline

11 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.3.0
2022-03-24 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.9
2020-10-17 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.7
2020-02-03 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.6
2019-04-01 · diff ↗
0.1.5
2019-03-11 · diff ↗
0.1.4
2019-02-08 · diff ↗
0.1.3
2018-07-11 · diff ↗

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0.1.2
2018-05-27 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2017-05-15
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-05-15
Total releases: 11 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.3
Download size: 532 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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