R Observatory: Metrics for PERSUADE version 0.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

PERSUADE

0.1.2Package record

Parametric Survival Model Selection for Decision-Analytic Models

0packages depend

2.4Kdownloads / year

97.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Bram RamaekersCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides a standardized framework to support the selection and evaluation of parametric survival models for time-to-event data. Includes tools for visualizing survival data, checking proportional hazards assumptions (Grambsch and Therneau, 1994, doi:10.1093/biomet/81.3.515), comparing parametric (Ishak and colleagues, 2013, doi:10.1007/s40273-013-0064-3), spline (Royston and Parmar, 2002, doi:10.1002/sim.1203) and cure models, examining hazard functions, and evaluating model extrapolation. Methods are consistent with recommendations in the NICE Decision Support Unit Technical Support Documents (14 and 21 https://sheffield.ac.uk/nice-dsu/tsds/survival-analysis). Results are structured to facilitate integration into decision-analytic models, and reports can be generated with 'rmarkdown'. The package builds on existing tools including 'flexsurv' (Jackson, 2016, doi:10.18637/jss.v070.i08)) and 'flexsurvcure' for estimating cure models.

Changes in 0.1.2

Incorporated feedback from CRAN on initial submission.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("PERSUADE", 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("Bram-R/PERSUADE")

Development version from Bram-R/PERSUADE. 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-persuade

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-PERSUADE

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-PERSUADE

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: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.2

READMEYes · 468 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1.2Citation fileNo

Description cites a JSS article

Help pages: 39
Examples that run: 23%9 run in a plain check · 29 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to PERSUADE HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,677 · ~7/day · ~198/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

25730 days

63790 days

2.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on73 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

bram-r/persuade ↗Account: Bram-R

4Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

201Commits

4Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 201 commits · Last activity 2025-10-10 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 33%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2023-10-19 · 22026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/bram-r/persuade on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (2)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-07

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing PERSUADE adds 144 packages (82 with compiled code, 126 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, TH.data 8.2 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (11)

data.table flexsurv flexsurvcure ggplot2 muhaz rmarkdown rms sftstatssurvivalsurvminer

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

kableExtra knitr testthatutils

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Bram Ramaekers

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.2 (2025), Thesis advisor

Xavier Pouwels

Contributor

Sabine Grimm

Thesis advisor

Manuela Joore

Thesis advisor

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.2Latest
record
2025-10-09 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-10-09
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 401 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("PERSUADE")

Format

Ramaekers, B., Grimm, S., Joore, M., & Pouwels, X. (2025). PERSUADE: Parametric Survival Model Selection for Decision-Analytic Models (Version 0.1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.PERSUADE

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 PERSUADE version 0.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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