R Observatory: Metrics for WSPsignal version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

WSPsignal

1.0.0Package record

Weibull Shape Parameter Tests for Signal Detection

0packages depend

977downloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Julia DyckCRAN page ↗

Implementation of Bayesian and frequentist Weibull Shape Parameter (WSP) tests for signal detection in pharmacovigilance based on right-censored time-to-event data to flag associations between drugs and adverse events. The WSP test is based on the assumption of constant hazard reflected by a Weibull type distribution with shape parameters equal to one. Based on the shape parameter estimates (posterior distribution or point estimate), the WSP test method performs a hypothesis test on each shape parameter and combines them to a decision on the presence of a signal. Methods described in Sauzet and Cornelius (2022) doi:10.3389/fphar.2022.889088, Sauzet et al. (2024) doi:10.1007/s40264-024-01460-2, and Dyck and Sauzet (2025) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2412.05463.

Install

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

install.packages("WSPsignal", 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-wspsignal

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-WSPsignal

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-WSPsignal

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: 28.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-29

Show 2 earlier changesHide 2 earlier changes

ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-27
OK8 OK2026-07-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

READMEYes · 142 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 23includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 89%16 run in a plain check · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 95%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 57% with a bibliography file

How these are measured

Downloads

977

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,953 · ~3/day · ~81/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

20730 days

66890 days

9771 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on62 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing WSPsignal adds 68 packages (33 with compiled code, 65 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (16)

methodsRcpp RcppParallel rstan (>= 2.18.1)rstantools Rdpack HDInterval ROCRstatsgraphicsmagrittr dplyr tidyr ggplot2survivalfurrr

LinkingTo (6)

BH Rcpp RcppEigen RcppParallel rstan StanHeaders (>= 2.18.0)

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Julia Dyck

Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2026), Author

Odile Sauzet

Author

Releases (1)

1.0.0Latest
record
2026-07-09 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-07-09
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 2.1 KB / 3 files
Download size: 313 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("WSPsignal")

Format

Dyck, J., Dyck, J., & Sauzet, O. (2026). WSPsignal: Weibull Shape Parameter Tests for Signal Detection (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.WSPsignal

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 WSPsignal version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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