charlatan: Make Fake Data

Make fake data that looks realistic, supporting addresses, person names, dates, times, colors, coordinates, currencies, digital object identifiers ('DOIs'), jobs, phone numbers, 'DNA' sequences, doubles and integers from distributions and within a range.

Version:	0.6.2
Depends:	R (≥ 2.10)
Imports:	R6 (≥ 2.2.0), tibble (≥ 1.2), whisker
Suggests:	testthat, knitr, rmarkdown, ipaddress, stringi, spelling
Published:	2026-01-14
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.charlatan
Author:	Roel M. Hogervorst [cre, aut], Scott Chamberlain [aut], Kyle Voytovich [aut], Martin Pedersen [ctb], Brooke Anderson [rev] (Brooke Anderson reviewed the package for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/94), Tristan Mahr [rev] (Tristan Mahr reviewed the package for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/94), rOpenSci [fnd]
Maintainer:	Roel M. Hogervorst <hogervorst.rm at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/ropensci/charlatan/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://docs.ropensci.org/charlatan/, https://github.com/ropensci/charlatan
NeedsCompilation:	no
Language:	en-US
Materials:	NEWS
CRAN checks:	charlatan results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	charlatan.html , charlatan.pdf
Vignettes:	Introduction to the charlatan package (source, R code) Contributing to charlatan (source, R code) Creating realistic data (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	charlatan_0.6.2.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: charlatan_0.6.2.zip, r-release: charlatan_0.6.2.zip, r-oldrel: charlatan_0.6.2.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): charlatan_0.6.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): charlatan_0.6.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): charlatan_0.6.2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): charlatan_0.6.2.tgz
Old sources:	charlatan archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports:	fakir
Reverse suggests:	r2dii.data, salty

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