The package overviewR (Meyer & Hammerschmidt, 2022) helps users to get an overview of data with a particular emphasis on the extent that the distinct units of observation are covered for the entire time frame of the data set. With (large) data sets that have many different observations over a long period, it becomes increasingly difficult to identify each unique observation and its exact coverage in the data. In particular, if some observations are not included for the entire time span of the data -either because they entered later, dropped out earlier, or have gaps in between -it can become difficult to spot potential problems in the data's time and scope. As Staniak & Biecek (2019) argue, these tools are increasingly in demand.The main advantages of overviewR are threefold: 1) it allows users to quickly understand the data and the distribution of the observations over time, 2) it offers several helper functions that facilitate complex variable engineering tasks such as the merging of multiple data frames on different time formats or the generation of specific time periods, and 3) it allows to show this information both in a visual and tabular form that is convenient for academic publications.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.