fivethirtyeight

0.6.2

Data and Code Behind the Stories and Interactives at 'FiveThirtyEight'

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Overview

About

Maintained by Albert Y. KimFirst published 2017-01-098 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Datasets and code published by the data journalism website 'FiveThirtyEight' available at https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data. Note that while we received guidance from editors at 'FiveThirtyEight', this package is not officially published by 'FiveThirtyEight'.

Install

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

install.packages("fivethirtyeight", 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("rudeboybert/fivethirtyeight")

Development version from rudeboybert/fivethirtyeight. 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-fivethirtyeight

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-fivethirtyeight

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-fivethirtyeight

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

Health

CRAN checks

13NOTE

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
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NOTE r-release-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 3.3 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

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Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

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Check history

NOTE2026-06-09
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NOTE2026-03-10
0 OK · 14 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 0%

Downloads

41.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,322 · ~114/day · ~3.5K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ rudeboybert/fivethirtyeight

457Stars

107Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

8Releases

671Commits

34Contributors

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671 commits · Last activity 2022-12-14 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.4

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

ggplot2 dplyr tidyr readr tibble stringr broom knitr rmarkdown patchwork fivethirtyeightdata

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

1direct

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Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (29)

Maintainer (1)

Albert Y. Kim

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Albert Y. Kim

Author, Maintainer

Jennifer Chunn

Author

Chester Ismay

Author

Contributors (26)

Pradeep Adhokshaja

Contributor · added in 0.3.0

Anna Ballou

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Jane Bang

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Olivia Barrows

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Alina Barylsky

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Ben Baumer

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Jonathan Bouchet

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Lizette Carpenter

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Andrew Flowers

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Rana Gahwagy

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Natalia Iannucci

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Jessica Keast

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Fatima Keita

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Meredith Manley

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Danica Miguel

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Jojo Miller

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Jordan Moody

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G. Elliott Morris

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Jayla Nakayama

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Sunni Raleigh

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Irene Ryan

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Maggie Shea

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Adam Spannbauer

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Marium Tapal

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Kara Van Allen

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Starry Yujia Zhou

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Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-01-09
Total releases: 8 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Additional repositories: fivethirtyeightdata.github.io
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.4
Bundled data: 3.0 MB / 129 files
Download size: 3.8 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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