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spicy: Descriptive Statistics, Summary Tables, and Data Management Tools

Provides tools for descriptive data analysis, variable inspection, data management, and tabulation workflows in 'R'. Summarizes variable metadata, labels, classes, missing values, and representative values, with support for readable frequency tables, cross-tabulations, association measures for contingency tables (Cramer's V, Phi, Goodman-Kruskal Gamma, Kendall's Tau-b, Somers' D, and others), categorical and continuous summary tables, including APA-style reporting outputs. Includes helpers for interactive codebooks, variable label extraction, clipboard export, and row-wise descriptive summaries. Designed to make descriptive analysis faster, clearer, and easier to work with in practice.

Version: 0.7.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: crayon, dplyr, haven, labelled, rlang, stats, stringr, tibble, tidyselect, utils
Suggests: clipr, DT, flextable, gt, knitr, officer, openxlsx2, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), tinytable, withr
Published: 2026-03-30
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.spicy
Author: Amal Tawfik ORCID iD ROR ID [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer: Amal Tawfik <amal.tawfik at hesav.ch>
BugReports: https://github.com/amaltawfik/spicy/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/amaltawfik/spicy/, https://amaltawfik.github.io/spicy/
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Citation: spicy citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: spicy results

Documentation:

Reference manual: spicy.html , spicy.pdf
Vignettes: Cramer's V, Phi, and association measures for contingency tables in R (source, R code)
Frequency tables and cross-tabulations in R (source, R code)
Getting started with spicy (source, R code)
Summary tables for APA-style reporting (source, R code)
Categorical summary tables in R (source, R code)
Continuous summary tables in R (source, R code)
Explore variables and build codebooks in R (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: spicy_0.7.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: spicy_0.7.0.zip, r-release: spicy_0.7.0.zip, r-oldrel: spicy_0.6.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): spicy_0.7.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): spicy_0.5.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): spicy_0.7.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): spicy_0.7.0.tgz
Old sources: spicy archive

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