R Observatory: Metrics for PracTools version 1.7.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

PracTools

1.7.6Package record

Designing and Weighting Survey Samples

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9Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Richard ValliantCRAN 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.

Changes in 1.7.6

pclass was revised to account for the possibility that the estimated propensities have no meaningful variation.

In that case a warning is printed and a single adjustment class is returned with a single estimated propensity and a warning is printed.

A parameter, rng.preds, was added to set a cutoff for determining when a single adjustment class is to be returned.

A seed parameter was added so that the same set of weights can be reproduced in different runs.(changes suggested by Juan Pablo Ferreira)

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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: 4.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.7.6

READMENoVignettesYes · 6 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.7.6Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 61
Examples that run: 97%59 run in a plain check · 2 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 80%

Vignettes (6)

How these are measured

Downloads

9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,601 · ~25/day · ~750/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

81530 days

1.8K90 days

9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on173 r2u6 autocran202 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing PracTools adds 37 packages (21 with compiled code, 41 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, usmapdata 5.4 MB.

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

0direct

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Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

mcboost

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Richard Valliant

Author, Maintainer since 0.0-1 (2013)

George Zipf

Author · added in 1.3

Jill A. Dever

Contributor

Frauke Kreuter

Contributor

Releases (32)

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1.7.6Latest
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2026-09-16 · current release · diff ↗
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2013-02-04
Total releases: 32 / 13 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 1.9 MB / 13 files
Download size: 2.5 MB

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Valliant, R., Dever, J. A., Kreuter, F., & Zipf, G. (2026). PracTools: Designing and Weighting Survey Samples (Version 1.7.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.PracTools

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for PracTools version 1.7.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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