R Observatory: Metrics for fsn version 0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fsn

0.4Package record

Rosenthal's Fail Safe Number and Related Functions

0packages depend

3.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michail TsagrisCRAN page ↗

Estimation of Rosenthal's fail safe number including confidence intervals. The relevant papers are the following. Konstantinos C. Fragkos, Michail Tsagris and Christos C. Frangos (2014). "Publication Bias in Meta-Analysis: Confidence Intervals for Rosenthal's Fail-Safe Number". International Scholarly Research Notices, Volume 2014. doi:10.1155/2014/825383. Konstantinos C. Fragkos, Michail Tsagris and Christos C. Frangos (2017). "Exploring the distribution for the estimator of Rosenthal's fail-safe number of unpublished studies in meta-analysis". Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 46(11):5672--5684. doi:10.1080/03610926.2015.1109664.

Install

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

install.packages("fsn", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-fsn

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-fsn

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-fsn

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: 55 s · r-devel-windows-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 0.4

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 7includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,987 · ~9/day · ~275/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28030 days

81290 days

3.3K1 year

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Also on84 r2u3 autocran83 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing fsn adds 5 packages (5 with compiled code, 3.9 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppArmadillo 1.0 MB, RcppParallel 744 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (4)

graphicsgrDevicesRfaststats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

Rfast2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Michail Tsagris

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2020)

Constantinos Frangos

Author

Christos Frangos

Contributor

Releases (3)

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-11-16
Total releases: 3 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: 5.5 KB

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Meta-Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("fsn")

Format

Tsagris, M., Frangos, C., & Frangos, C. (2024). fsn: Rosenthal's Fail Safe Number and Related Functions (Version 0.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.fsn

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 fsn version 0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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