R Observatory: Metrics for bruceR version 2026.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bruceR

2026.1Package record

Broadly Useful Convenient and Efficient R Functions

3packages dependsuggested by 2

28.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Han Wu Shuang BaoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Broadly useful convenient and efficient R functions that bring users concise and elegant R data analyses. This package includes easy-to-use functions for (1) basic R programming (e.g., set working directory to the path of currently opened file; import/export data from/to files in any format; print tables to Microsoft Word); (2) multivariate computation (e.g., compute scale sums/means/... with reverse scoring); (3) reliability analyses and factor analyses; (4) descriptive statistics and correlation analyses; (5) t-test, multi-factor analysis of variance (ANOVA), simple-effect analysis, and post-hoc multiple comparison; (6) tidy report of statistical models (to R Console and Microsoft Word); (7) mediation and moderation analyses (PROCESS); and (8) additional toolbox for statistics and graphics.

Changes in 2026.1

Minor changes and bug fixes.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

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

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("psychbruce/bruceR")

Development version from psychbruce/bruceR. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-brucer

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-bruceR

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-bruceR

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

Additional issues

donttest

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 8.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2026.1

READMEYes · 704 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2026.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 56 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 56%29 run in a plain check · 16 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 6 never run · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 96%
Documented parameters: 91%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 9%

How these are measured

Downloads

28.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,747 · ~79/day · ~2.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.7K30 days

5.4K90 days

28.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on152 r2u11 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

psychbruce/brucer ↗Account: psychbruce

195Stars

37Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

331Commits

3Commit identities

rr-packagedata-sciencedata-analysislinear-regressionlinear-modelsmultilevel-modelsanova

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 331 commits · Last activity 2026-02-02 · +1% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-10-02 · 1802026-09-28 · 195

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/psychbruce/brucer on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-02-02 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-02-02

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

40 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bruceR adds 146 packages (68 with compiled code, 124 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (18)

rstudioapi data.table rio crayon plyr dplyr tidyr stringr ggplot2 psych afex emmeans effectsize mediation interactions lavaan jtools texreg

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (25)

pacman glue tibble forcats havenforeignreadxl openxlsx clipr cowplot ggtext see car lmtest lme4 lmerTestnnetvars phia performanceMASSMuMIn BayesFactor GGally GPArotation

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

Imports 3

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

TestAnaAPP ChineseNames PsychWordVec

Suggests, most downloaded first

FMAT DPI

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Han Wu Shuang Bao

Author, Maintainer · added in 2025.8

Maintainer since 0.6.0 (2021)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Han-Wu-Shuang Bao

no longer listed · 0.6.0 to 2024.6

Releases (22)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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added 1 export
cor_multilevel
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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added 4 exports
.mean, .sum, add, added
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

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0.8.6
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cc
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PCA, TTEST, export, import, set_wd
0.7.3
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RANDBETWEEN

added 2 exports
PROCESS, lavaan_summary
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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added 1 export
granger_causality
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removed 3 exports
p.trans, p.trans2, sig.trans

added 4 exports
%^%, HLM_ICC_rWG, Run, show_colors
0.6.0
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2021-03-19
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-03-19
Total releases: 22 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 2.2 KB / 9 files
Download size: 174 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("bruceR")

Format

Bao, H. W. S. (2026). bruceR: Broadly Useful Convenient and Efficient R Functions (Version 2026.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bruceR

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for bruceR version 2026.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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