palmerpenguins

0.1.1

Palmer Archipelago (Antarctica) Penguin Data

64packages depend

1.2Mdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Allison HorstFirst published 2020-07-232 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Size measurements, clutch observations, and blood isotope ratios for adult foraging Adélie, Chinstrap, and Gentoo penguins observed on islands in the Palmer Archipelago near Palmer Station, Antarctica. Data were collected and made available by Dr. Kristen Gorman and the Palmer Station Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program.

Install

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

install.packages("palmerpenguins", 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("allisonhorst/palmerpenguins")

Development version from allisonhorst/palmerpenguins. 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-palmerpenguins

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-palmerpenguins

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-palmerpenguins

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

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

Slowest check: 58 s · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 565 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

1.2M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #296 · ~3.2K/day · ~98.8K/mo

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427.7K90 days

1.2M1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ allisonhorst/palmerpenguins

1,016Stars

252Forks

15Open issues

3Open PRs

1Releases

210Commits

7Contributors

License CC0-1.0 · 210 commits · Last activity 2024-09-19 · +0.6% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-10 · 9492026-07-20 · 1,016

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/allisonhorst/palmerpenguins on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

knitr rmarkdown tibble ggplot2 dplyr tidyr recipes

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

64direct

75indirect

and 16 more packages.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

Rd 142 (63%)R 84 (37%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 2.0 median / 2 max

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

1 1 exported

Complexity

2 avg / 2 max

Call network

1 nodes / 0 edges

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People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Allison Horst

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Allison Horst

Author, Maintainer

Kristen Gorman

Author

Alison Hill

Author

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-07-23
Total releases: 2 / 6 yrs
License: CC0
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 0.4 KB / 1 file
Download size: 2.9 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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