R Observatory: Metrics for SynthTools version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

SynthTools

1.0.1Package record

Tools and Tests for Experiments with Partially Synthetic Data Sets

0packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

88.3%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Charlotte LoobyCRAN page ↗

A set of functions to support experimentation in the utility of partially synthetic data sets. All functions compare an observed data set to one or a set of partially synthetic data sets derived from the observed data to (1) check that data sets have identical attributes, (2) calculate overall and specific variable perturbation rates, (3) check for potential logical inconsistencies, and (4) calculate confidence intervals and standard errors of desired variables in multiple imputed data sets. Confidence interval and standard error formulas have options for either synthetic data sets or multiple imputed data sets. For more information on the formulas and methods used, see Reiter & Raghunathan (2007) doi:10.1198/016214507000000932.

Changes in 1.0.1

Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
Replaced all instances of cat() function with more appropriate functions
Updated oneCatCI() and twoCatCI() functions to have options for fully or partially synthetic data.
Updated calls to data.frame() to have the stringsAsFactors = TRUE in anticipation of new default changes to R 4.0.0.
Now able to check the variable rates for a single variable in pertRates().

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("SynthTools", 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-synthtools

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-SynthTools

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-SynthTools

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespace in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘utils’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-09-08
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.1

READMEYes · 120 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.0.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 13
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 15% with a bibliography file

How these are measured

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,063 · ~7/day · ~214/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

22330 days

72190 days

2.6K1 year

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Also on87 r2u1 autocran70 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing SynthTools adds 17 packages (10 with compiled code, 6.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: rbibutils 1.1 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, dplyr 902 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (4)

dplyr magrittr Rdpackutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

synthpop testthat spelling

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Charlotte Looby

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2019)

Releases (2)

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-09-04
Total releases: 2 / 7 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 24 KB / 7 files
Download size: 47 KB

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Cite

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citation("SynthTools")

Format

Looby, C. (2020). SynthTools: Tools and Tests for Experiments with Partially Synthetic Data Sets (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.SynthTools

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for SynthTools version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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