R Observatory: Metrics for cbcTools version 0.7.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

cbcTools

0.7.1Package record

Design and Analyze Choice-Based Conjoint Experiments

0packages depend

5.4Kdownloads / year

68.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by John HelvestonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Design and evaluate choice-based conjoint survey experiments. Generate a variety of survey designs, including random designs, frequency-based designs, and D-optimal designs, as well as "labeled" designs (also known as "alternative-specific designs"), designs with "no choice" options, and designs with dominant alternatives removed. Conveniently inspect and compare designs using a variety of metrics, including design balance, overlap, and D-error, and simulate choice data for a survey design either randomly or according to a utility model defined by user-provided prior parameters. Conduct a power analysis for a given survey design by estimating the same model on different subsets of the data to simulate different sample sizes. Bayesian D-efficient designs using the 'cea' and 'modfed' methods are obtained using the 'idefix' package by Traets et al (2020) doi:10.18637/jss.v096.i03. Choice simulation and model estimation in power analyses are handled using the 'logitr' package by Helveston (2023) doi:10.18637/jss.v105.i10.

Changes in 0.7.1

Auto-encoding to dummy coding occurs for cbc_choices and cbc_power if the design is detected to have a no_choice option.
Updated some of the print methods so that they don't error if the choices or design objects are modified by dplyr functions.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("cbcTools", 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("jhelvy/cbcTools")

Development version from jhelvy/cbcTools. 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-cbctools

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-cbcTools

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-cbcTools

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: 3.9 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-30
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.7.1

READMEYes · 275 wordsVignettesYes · 8 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.7.1Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Description cites a JSS article

Help pages: 29 (6 internal)
Examples that run: 100%10 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 71%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (8)

Computing D-error in Choice Experiments HTML
Generating Designs HTML
Generating Profiles HTML
Getting Started HTML
Power Analysis HTML
Simulating Choices HTML
Specifying Priors HTML
Variable Encoding HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

5.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,038 · ~15/day · ~452/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

48130 days

1.2K90 days

5.4K1 year

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Also on106 r2u15 autocran1K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

jhelvy/cbctools ↗Account: jhelvy

11Stars

6Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

443Commits

2Commit identities

rrstatsconjointdesigncbcsawtoothdiscrete-choicesurvey

443 commits · Last activity 2026-06-24 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.7.2, ahead of CRAN 0.7.1 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 59
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-25 · 82026-07-07 · 11

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/jhelvy/cbctools on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-24 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-06-24

CRAN release process (1)

CRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing cbcTools adds 78 packages (46 with compiled code, 77 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (10)

fastDummies ggplot2 idefix logitrparallelrandtoolbox rlangtoolsstatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

here knitr testthat tibble

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

John Helveston

Releases (11)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.7.1Latest
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2025-10-20 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
cbc_encode
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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-07-17
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2025-07-17 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
cbc_balance, cbc_overlap, randLN, randN

added 7 exports
cbc_compare, cbc_decode, cbc_inspect, cbc_priors, cor_spec, int_spec, rand_spec
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-04-19
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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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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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

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Package metadata

First published: 2023-02-28
Total releases: 11 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 2.2 MB

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citation("cbcTools")

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Format

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for cbcTools version 0.7.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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