R Observatory: Metrics for golden version 0.0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

golden

0.0.4Package record

Framework for Patient-Level Microsimulation of Risk Factor Trajectories & Hazard-Based Events

0packages depend

762downloads / year

73.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Pete DoddCRAN page ↗Declared funder: Horizon Europe

Fast, flexible, patient-level microsimulation. Time-stepped simulation with a 'C++' back-end from user-supplied initial population, trajectories, hazards, and corresponding event transitions. User-defined aggregate time series histories are returned together with the final population. Designed for simulation of chronic diseases with continuous and evolving risk factors, but could easily be applied more generally.

Install

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

install.packages("golden", 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-golden

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-golden

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-golden

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: 3.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK7 OK2026-08-25
NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-28
OK5 OK2026-03-17

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.0.4

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 28includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 95%21 run in a plain check · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Getting Started

How these are measured

Downloads

762

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #23,749 · ~2/day · ~64/mo

Releases R versions

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19630 days

54490 days

7621 year

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Also on203 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing golden adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 7.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (2)

Rcpp data.table

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (5)

testthat SciViews knitr rmarkdown ggplot2

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

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Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Pete Dodd

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2026)

Robert Chisholm

Author

University of Sheffield

Copyright holder

Horizon Europe

Funder

Releases (2)

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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-08-24
0.0.4Latest
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2026-08-24 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-03-31
issues were not corrected in time And spammed personal email address of team member in HTML
0.0.1
record
2026-03-16
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-16
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 213 KB / 6 files
Download size: 955 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("golden")

Format

Dodd, P., Horizon Europe, University of Sheffield, & Chisholm, R. (2026). golden: Framework for Patient-Level Microsimulation of Risk Factor Trajectories & Hazard-Based Events (Version 0.0.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.golden

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for golden version 0.0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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