R Observatory: Metrics for BalancedSampling version 2.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

BalancedSampling

2.1.1Package record

Balanced and Spatially Balanced Sampling

1packages dependsuggested by 4

13.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Anton GrafströmCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗

Select balanced and spatially balanced probability samples in multi-dimensional spaces with any prescribed inclusion probabilities. It contains fast (C++ via Rcpp) implementations of the included sampling methods. The local pivotal method by Grafström, Lundström and Schelin (2012) doi:10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01699.x and spatially correlated Poisson sampling by Grafström (2012) doi:10.1016/j.jspi.2011.07.003 are included. Also the cube method (for balanced sampling) and the local cube method (for doubly balanced sampling) are included, see Grafström and Tillé (2013) doi:10.1002/env.2194.

Install

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

install.packages("BalancedSampling", 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("envisim/BalancedSampling")

Development version from envisim/BalancedSampling. 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-balancedsampling

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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-BalancedSampling

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-BalancedSampling

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.1.1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 10 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%9 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 70%

How these are measured

Downloads

13.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,952 · ~37/day · ~1.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.4K30 days

4.6K90 days

13.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on405 r2u38 autocran76 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

envisim/balancedsampling ↗Organization: envisim

3Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

87Commits

2Commit identities

87 commits · Last activity 2024-11-15 · +50% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-12-31 · 12026-09-29 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/envisim/balancedsampling on 2026-10-18.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing BalancedSampling adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 2.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppArmadillo 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

sgsR

Suggests, most downloaded first

randomizr StratifiedSampling WaveSampling fieldopt

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Anton Grafström

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2014)

Wilmer Prentius

Author · added in 1.6.3

Jonathan Lisic

Contributor · added in 1.5.1

Releases (11)

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Package metadata

First published: 2014-03-24
Total releases: 11 / 12 yrs
License: AGPL-3 OSI · relicensed from GPL (>= 2) in 2.1.1
Download size: 38 KB

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Official Statistics & Survey Statistics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("BalancedSampling")

Format

Grafström, A., Lisic, J., & Prentius, W. (2024). BalancedSampling: Balanced and Spatially Balanced Sampling (Version 2.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.BalancedSampling

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for BalancedSampling version 2.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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