R Observatory: Metrics for RDS version 0.9-10

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RDS

0.9-10Package record

Respondent-Driven Sampling

3packages depend

5.5Kdownloads / year

26.5%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mark S. HandcockCRAN page ↗Website ↗

Provides functionality for carrying out estimation with data collected using Respondent-Driven Sampling. This includes Heckathorn's RDS-I and RDS-II estimators as well as Gile's Sequential Sampling estimator. The package is part of the "RDS Analyst" suite of packages for the analysis of respondent-driven sampling data. See Gile and Handcock (2010) doi:10.1111/j.1467-9531.2010.01223.x, Gile and Handcock (2015) doi:10.1111/rssa.12091 and Gile, Beaudry, Handcock and Ott (2018) doi:10.1146/annurev-statistics-031017-100704.

Install

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

install.packages("RDS", 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-rds

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-RDS

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-RDS

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  RDS/R/bootstrap.contingency.test.R (.Names: 1)
  RDS/tests/testthat/test-estimators.R (.Label: 2, .Names: 1)
  RDS/tests/testthat/test-rds-II.R (.Names: 1)
  RDS/tests/testthat/test-rds-mc.R (.Names: 2, .Dim: 1, .Dimnames: 1)
  RDS/tests/testthat/test-rds-ss.R (.Names: 3, .Dim: 1, .Dimnames: 1)
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.
'.Label' should be changed to 'levels'.
'.Dim' should be changed to 'dim'.
'.Dimnames' should be changed to 'dimnames'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTE2026-09-08
ERROR8 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
NOTE10 OK, 3 NOTE2026-07-16
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08

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OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.9-10

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsiteYes

Help pages: 77 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 68%23 run in a plain check · 9 never run · 2 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 33%
Help pages citing references: 22%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,369 · ~15/day · ~460/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

49630 days

1.3K90 days

5.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on350 r2u8 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing RDS adds 75 packages (42 with compiled code, 82 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 2.5.1methods

Imports (11)

gridExtra ggplot2 network igraph reshape2 scales anytime Hmisc statnet.common ergm isotone

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

survey sspse testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

sspse SimRDS Neighboot

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Mark S. Handcock

Author, Maintainer since 0.5 (2013) · added in 0.5

Ian E. Fellows

Author · added in 0.5

Krista J. Gile

Author · added in 0.5

W. Whipple Neely

Contributor

Previously maintained by W. Whipple Neely (0.01).

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MA.estimates, RDS.HCG.estimates, bootstrap.contingency.test, bootstrap.incidence, cumulative.estimate, get.recruitment.time, has.recruitment.time, hcg.weights, impute.degree
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R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17

Package metadata

First published: 2009-04-20
Total releases: 24 / 17 yrs
License: LGPL-2.1 OSI · relicensed from GPL-2 | GPL-3 in 0.5
Minimum R: ≥ 2.5.1
Bundled data: 129 KB / 4 files
Download size: 301 KB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for RDS version 0.9-10 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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