R Observatory: Metrics for PracTools version 1.7.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

PracTools

1.7.5

Designing and Weighting Survey Samples

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10.3Kdownloads / year

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13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Richard ValliantFirst published 2013-02-0431 releasesCRAN page ↗

Functions and datasets to support Valliant, Dever, and Kreuter (2018), doi:10.1007/978-3-319-93632-1, "Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples". Contains functions for sample size calculation for survey samples using stratified or clustered one-, two-, and three-stage sample designs, and single-stage audit sample designs. Functions are included that will group geographic units accounting for distances apart and measures of size. Other functions compute variance components for multistage designs, sample sizes in two-phase designs, and a stopping rule for ending data collection. A number of example data sets are included.

Install

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

install.packages("PracTools", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-practools

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-PracTools

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-PracTools

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

6

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
13 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 97%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 80%

Downloads

10.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,811 · ~28/day · ~859/mo

Releases R versions

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36730 days

1.6K90 days

10.3K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (6)

dplyr geosphere ggplot2graphicsMASSusmap

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (16)

doByforeignkableExtra knitr lpSolve markdown plyr pps Rcpp reshape rmarkdown roxygen2 sampling samplingbook sp survey

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

mcboost

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Richard Valliant

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Richard Valliant

Author, Maintainer

George Zipf

Author · added in 1.3

Contributors (2)

Jill A. Dever

Contributor

Frauke Kreuter

Contributor

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2013-02-04
Total releases: 31 / 13 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 1.9 MB / 13 files
Download size: 2.5 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Valliant, R., Dever, J. A., Kreuter, F., & Zipf, G. (2026). PracTools: Designing and Weighting Survey Samples (Version 1.7.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.PracTools

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for PracTools version 1.7.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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