R Observatory: Metrics for copulaSim version 0.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

copulaSim

0.0.1Package record

Virtual Patient Simulation by Copula Invariance Property

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Pei-Shan YenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

To optimize clinical trial designs and data analysis methods consistently through trial simulation, we need to simulate multivariate mixed-type virtual patient data independent of designs and analysis methods under evaluation. To make the outcome of optimization more realistic, relevant empirical patient level data should be utilized when it’s available. However, a few problems arise in simulating trials based on small empirical data, where the underlying marginal distributions and their dependence structure cannot be understood or verified thoroughly due to the limited sample size. To resolve this issue, we use the copula invariance property, which can generate the joint distribution without making a strong parametric assumption. The function copula.sim can generate virtual patient data with optional data validation methods that are based on energy distance and ball divergence measurement. The function compare.copula.sim can conduct comparison of marginal mean and covariance of simulated data. To simulate patient-level data from a hypothetical treatment arm that would perform differently from the observed data, the function new.arm.copula.sim can be used to generate new multivariate data with the same dependence structure of the original data but with a shifted mean vector.

Install

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

install.packages("copulaSim", 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("psyen0824/copulaSim")

Development version from psyen0824/copulaSim. 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-copulasim

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-copulaSim

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-copulaSim

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: 1.9 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

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

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.0.1

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 7includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 60%
Documented parameters: 82%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 14%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to copulaSim HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,988 · ~7/day · ~222/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

29830 days

80790 days

2.7K1 year

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Also on86 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

psyen0824/copulasim ↗Account: psyen0824

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

Last activity 2022-08-20

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/psyen0824/copulasim on 2026-10-21.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing copulaSim adds 16 packages (10 with compiled code, 6.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: mvtnorm 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, dplyr 902 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (7)

dplyr magrittr mvtnorm rlangstatstibbleutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

rmarkdown knitr ggplot2 testthat Ball (>= 1.3.0)energy

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 (4)

Pei-Shan Yen

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2022)

Xuemin Gu

Contributor

Jenny Jiao

Contributor

Jane Zhang

Contributor

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.0.1Latest
record
2022-08-19 · current release
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-08-19
Total releases: 1 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 37 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("copulaSim")

Format

Yen, P., Gu, X., Jiao, J., & Zhang, J. (2022). copulaSim: Virtual Patient Simulation by Copula Invariance Property (Version 0.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.copulaSim

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 copulaSim version 0.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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