R Observatory: Metrics for cellKey version 1.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

cellKey

1.0.3Package record

Consistent Perturbation of Statistical Frequency- And Magnitude Tables

0packages depend

3.7Kdownloads / year

65.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Bernhard MeindlCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Data from statistical agencies and other institutions often need to be protected before they can be published. This package can be used to perturb statistical tables in a consistent way. The main idea is to add - at the micro data level - a record key for each unit. Based on these keys, for any cell in a statistical table a cell key is computed as a function on the record keys contributing to a specific cell. Values that are added to the cell in order to perturb it are derived from a lookup-table that maps values of cell keys to specific perturbation values. The theoretical basis for the methods implemented can be found in Thompson, Broadfoot and Elazar (2013) https://unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/stats/documents/ece/ces/ge.46/2013/Topic_1_ABS.pdf which was extended and enhanced by Giessing and Tent (2019) https://unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/stats/documents/ece/ces/ge.46/2019/mtg1/SDC2019_S2_Germany_Giessing_Tent_AD.pdf.

Changes in 1.0.3

Do not modify variable names in ck_setup() [https://github.com/sdcTools/cellKey/issues/17]
Use Imports for data.table [https://github.com/sdcTools/cellKey/issues/18]

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("cellKey", 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("sdcTools/cellKey")

Development version from sdcTools/cellKey. 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-cellkey

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-cellKey

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.6 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
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.0.3

READMEYes · 188 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.3Citation fileNo

Help pages: 12
Examples that run: 50%6 run in a plain check · 5 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 17%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to the cellKey-Package

How these are measured

Downloads

3.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,793 · ~10/day · ~312/mo

Releases R versions

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40630 days

95890 days

3.7K1 year

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Also on370 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

sdctools/cellkey ↗Organization: sdcTools

12Stars

4Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

15Releases

376Commits

4Commit identities

376 commits · Last activity 2025-09-03 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 7
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 112026-07-30 · 12

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/sdctools/cellkey on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Docs source (3)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-09-03 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing cellKey adds 66 packages (34 with compiled code, 66 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 4.1sdcHierarchies

Imports (10)

rlangmethodsdigest sdcTable ptable cliutilsyamlparalleldata.table

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

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People & History

People (1)

Bernhard Meindl

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2023)

Releases (4)

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Package metadata

First published: 2023-03-10
Total releases: 4 / 3 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Bundled data: 5.2 MB / 2 files
Download size: 4.7 MB

Cite

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citation("cellKey")

Format

Meindl, B. (2025). cellKey: Consistent Perturbation of Statistical Frequency- And Magnitude Tables (Version 1.0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.cellKey

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for cellKey version 1.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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