The overviewR package helps researchers inspect the temporal and cross-sectional coverage of panel datasets. It produces summary tables (overview_tab()), cross-tabulations (overview_crosstab()), ggplot2-based sample and NA plots, and LaTeX-ready output compatible with knitr and flextable.

What’s covered#

  • overview_tab() – collapse time conditions by unit ID, including complex date columns
  • overview_crosstab() – cross-tabulate units by two threshold-based conditions
  • overview_na() – horizontal ggplot2 bar chart of missing values per variable
  • overview_plot() – ggplot2 graphic of sample coverage over time
  • overview_crossplot() – visualize cross-tabulation conditions as a scatter plot
  • Export tables – overview_latex() for LaTeX output with save_out and file_path options
  • Workflows – tidyverse pipe integration and compatibility with knitr kable() and ggplot2 ggsave()