R Observatory: Metrics for faux version 1.2.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

faux

1.2.4Package record

Simulation for Factorial Designs

0packages dependsuggested by 1

15.9Kdownloads / year

93.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Lisa DeBruineCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Create datasets with factorial structure through simulation by specifying variable parameters. Extended documentation at https://www.scienceverse.org/faux/. Described in DeBruine (2020) doi:10.5281/zenodo.2669586.

Install

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

install.packages("faux", 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("scienceverse/faux")

Development version from scienceverse/faux. 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-faux

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-faux

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-faux

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: 5.1 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK7 OK2026-03-12

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.4

READMEYes · 112 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 1.2.4Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsiteYes

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 84 (11 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 99%66 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition) · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 93%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Simulate by Design HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

15.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,497 · ~44/day · ~1.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.4K30 days

3K90 days

15.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on165 r2u8 autocran89 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

scienceverse/faux ↗Organization: scienceverse

103Stars

17Forks

9Open issues

0Open PRs

11Releases

381Commits

5Commit identities

datasimulation

381 commits · Last activity 2026-03-17 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 94%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 47
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-25 · 1002026-09-12 · 103

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

14 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 9 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/scienceverse/faux on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-10-17 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 5 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

Zenodo

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing faux adds 35 packages (20 with compiled code, 28 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, lme4 4.1 MB, nloptr 2.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.4

Imports (6)

lme4 dplyr ggplot2 jsonlite truncnorm rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (17)

testthat tidyr knitr rmarkdown roxygen2 cowplot ggExtra purrr broom broom.mixed psych lmerTest kableExtra glue openssl readr patchwork

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

POSSA

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Lisa DeBruine

Andrew Heiss

Contributor

Anna Krystalli

Contributor

Releases (10)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-03-11
1.2.4Latest
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first seen 2026-03-11 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-03-02
issues were not corrected despite reminders
1.2.3
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2025-10-01 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-01-15
1.2.2
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2025-01-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
get_contrast_vals, nbinom2norm, norm2nbinom
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-11-05
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-04-20
1.2.1
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2023-04-20 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-03-06
issues were not corrected in time
1.2.0
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2023-02-06 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
%||%

added 10 exports
convert_r, distfuncs, dlikert, fh_bounds, get_coefs, norm2norm, plikert, qlikert, rlikert, rmulti
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

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1.1.0
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2021-09-13 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
sim_data

added 15 exports
%||%, add_between, add_contrast, add_random, add_ranef, add_recode, add_within, contr_code_anova, contr_code_difference, contr_code_helmert, contr_code_poly, contr_code_sum, contr_code_treatment, get_design, set_design
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.0
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2021-03-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
beta2norm, binom2norm, gamma2norm, getcols, norm2gamma, sim_joint_dist
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-01-21
0.0.1.6
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2021-01-21 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-01-10
check problems were not corrected in time
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-09-22
0.0.1.5
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2020-09-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
average_r2tau_0, std_alpha2average_r
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-08-31
check issues were not corrected in time Requires pandoc and does not use it conditionally, noLD
0.0.1.4
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2020-08-19
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-08-19
Total releases: 10 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.4
Bundled data: 162 KB / 2 files
Download size: 713 KB

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Mixed, Multilevel, and Hierarchical Models in R

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for faux version 1.2.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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