R Observatory: Metrics for cureAssess version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

cureAssess

0.1.0Package record

Assessing Cure Model Appropriateness for Survival Data

0packages depend

516downloads / year

48.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Geethanjalee MudunkotuwaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Assesses whether cure models are appropriate for right-censored survival data, where a fraction of subjects may never experience the event of interest. Implements a two-stage workflow combining Kaplan-Meier visualization and comparison of parametric cure and non-cure models by the Akaike information criterion with formal diagnostics for sufficient follow-up and for the presence of a cured fraction. The diagnostics include the statistics of Maller and Zhou (1992) doi:10.1093/biomet/79.4.731 and Maller and Zhou (1994) doi:10.1080/01621459.1994.10476889, the test of Shen (2000) doi:10.1016/S0167-7152(00)00063-8, and the ratio estimation of censored uncured subjects ('RECeUS') method of Selukar and Othus (2023) doi:10.1002/sim.9610.

Changes in 0.1.0

Initial CRAN submission.
Added functions for survival data preparation.
Added cure and non-cure model fitting with AIC screening.
Added diagnostic tests for cure models.
Added RECeUS-based cure model assessment.
Implemented S3 methods for print, summary, and plot.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("cureAssess", 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("GeethanjaleeM/cureAssess")

Development version from GeethanjaleeM/cureAssess. 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-cureassess

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-cureAssess

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-cureAssess

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: 2.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK5 OK2026-09-15

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 432 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 23 (5 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%12 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 26%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to cureAssess HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

516

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,043 · ~1/day · ~43/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

40330 days

51690 days

5161 year

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Also on8 r2u28 autocran

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Repository

geethanjaleem/cureassess ↗Account: GeethanjaleeM

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

Last activity 2026-09-02

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/geethanjaleem/cureassess on 2026-10-18.

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing cureAssess adds 96 packages (54 with compiled code, 84 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (7)

survivalflexsurv flexsurvcure survminer ggplot2 dplyrstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Geethanjalee Mudunkotuwa

Durbadal Ghosh

Author

Releases (1)

0.1.0Latest
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first seen 2026-09-14 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First seen: 2026-09-14
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 91 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("cureAssess")

Format

Mudunkotuwa, G., & Ghosh, D. (2026). cureAssess: Assessing Cure Model Appropriateness for Survival Data (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.cureAssess

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for cureAssess version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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