fabricatr

1.0.2

Imagine Your Data Before You Collect It

5packages depend

52.2Kdownloads / year

97.1%test coverage

9/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Graeme BlairFirst published 2018-01-2510 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Helps you imagine your data before you collect it. Hierarchical data structures and correlated data can be easily simulated, either from random number generators or by resampling from existing data sources. This package is faster with 'data.table' and 'mvnfast' installed.

Install

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

install.packages("fabricatr", 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("DeclareDesign/fabricatr")

Development version from DeclareDesign/fabricatr. 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-fabricatr

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-fabricatr

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-fabricatr

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

4NOTE9OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.76

97.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 53%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

52.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,147 · ~143/day · ~4.3K/mo

Releases R versions

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2.3K30 days

10.5K90 days

52.2K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ declaredesign/fabricatr

92Stars

12Forks

11Open issues

2Open PRs

8Releases

470Commits

8Contributors

470 commits · Last activity 2025-02-07 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-10-21 · 912026-07-07 · 92

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/declaredesign/fabricatr on 2026-07-30.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Coverage (1)

Codecov

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (1)

rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

testthat data.table mvnfastMASSextraDistr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

1indirect

DeclareDesign DesignLibrary osdc CausalQueries estimatr

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Maintainer (1)

Graeme Blair

Author, Maintainer

Authors (6)

Author, Maintainer

Author

Author

Author

Author

Author

Contributors (1)

David C. Hall

Contributor · added in 1.0.0

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2018-01-25
Total releases: 10 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 59 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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