R Observatory: Metrics for hesim version 0.5.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

hesim

0.5.8Package record

Health Economic Simulation Modeling and Decision Analysis

0packages dependsuggested by 1

8.5Kdownloads / year

91.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Devin IncertiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A modular and computationally efficient R package for parameterizing, simulating, and analyzing health economic simulation models. The package supports cohort discrete time state transition models (Briggs et al. 1998) doi:10.2165/00019053-199813040-00003, N-state partitioned survival models (Glasziou et al. 1990) doi:10.1002/sim.4780091106, and individual-level continuous time state transition models (Siebert et al. 2012) doi:10.1016/j.jval.2012.06.014, encompassing both Markov (time-homogeneous and time-inhomogeneous) and semi-Markov processes. Decision uncertainty from a cost-effectiveness analysis is quantified with standard graphical and tabular summaries of a probabilistic sensitivity analysis (Claxton et al. 2005, Barton et al. 2008) doi:10.1002/hec.985, doi:10.1111/j.1524-4733.2008.00358.x. Use of C++ and data.table make individual-patient simulation, probabilistic sensitivity analysis, and incorporation of patient heterogeneity fast.

Install

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

install.packages("hesim", 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("hesim-dev/hesim")

Development version from hesim-dev/hesim. 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-hesim

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-hesim

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-hesim

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: 16.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-02

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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.8

READMEYes · 958 wordsVignettesYes · 8 · dynamicNEWS· In the repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 107 (26 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 98%56 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 69%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 74%
Help pages citing references: 4%

Vignettes (8)

How these are measured

Downloads

8.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,858 · ~23/day · ~712/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

75430 days

1.7K90 days

8.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on495 r2u12 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

hesim-dev/hesim ↗Organization: hesim-dev

78Stars

21Forks

15Open issues

3Open PRs

18Releases

1,052Commits

7Commit identities

rsimulation-modelinghealth-economic-evaluationmicrosimulation

1,052 commits · Last activity 2026-01-16 · +1.3% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 96%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 23
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 762026-10-10 · 78

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/hesim-dev/hesim on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

CODEOWNERS

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-01-16 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-01-16

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting.covrignore

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Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository has an AI review tool set up.

Review tools

Copilot code review
Commits: some accepting its review suggestions, count not recorded

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing hesim adds 48 packages (31 with compiled code, 45 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (9)

data.table flexsurv ggplot2MASSmsm Rcpp R6statssurvival

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (12)

covr kableExtra knitr magrittr mstatennetnumDeriv pracma rmarkdown scales testthat truncnorm

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

estar

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Devin Incerti

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2017)

Mark Clements

Author · added in 0.5.4

Jeroen P. Jansen

Author · added in 0.2.0

R Core Team

Contributor · added in 0.2.3

hesim uses some slightly modified C functions from base R

Releases (19)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.5.8Latest
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2026-01-13 · current release · diff ↗
0.5.7
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2025-10-11 · diff ↗
0.5.6
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2025-09-29 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.5.5
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2024-09-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.5.4
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2024-02-12 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.5.3
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2022-09-03 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.5.2
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2022-03-31 · diff ↗
0.5.1
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2021-07-26 · diff ↗ ·
removed 9 exports
bootstrap, joined_flexsurvreg, joined_flexsurvreg_list, joined_formula, joined_formula_list, normboot, params_joined_surv, params_joined_surv_list, params_lm_list

added 6 exports
as.data.table, sim_costs, sim_ev, sim_qalys, sim_stateprobs, survival
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.5.0
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2021-02-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 10 exports
CtstmTrans, autoplot, get_labels, icer, normboot, plot_ceac, plot_ceaf, plot_ceplane, plot_evpi, set_labels
0.4.2
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2020-12-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
apply_rr, as_array3, as_pfs_os, as_tbl2, expmat, qmatrix

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0.4.1
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2020-10-05 · diff ↗
0.4.0
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2020-09-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
cea, cea_pw, tpmatrix_id
0.3.1
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2020-06-03 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2020-05-25 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
params_mean

added 18 exports
CohortDtstm, CohortDtstmTrans, create_CohortDtstm, create_CohortDtstmTrans, define_model, define_rng, define_tparams, eval_model, eval_rng, id_attributes, multinom_list, params_mlogit, params_mlogit_list, time_intervals, tparams_mean, tparams_transprobs, tpmatrix, tpmatrix_names
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-03-17
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-03-17
check problems were not corrected in time
0.2.3
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2020-03-17 · diff ↗
0.2.2
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2019-11-26 · diff ↗
0.2.1
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2019-07-03 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.2.0
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2019-03-29 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
custom_table

added 46 exports
HweibullNMA, IndivCtstm, IndivCtstmTrans, Psm, PsmCurves, StateVals, bootstrap, create_IndivCtstmTrans, create_PsmCurves, create_StateVals, create_input_mats, create_lines_dt, create_params, create_trans_dt, dweibullNMA, expand, fast_rgengamma, flexsurvreg_list, formula_list, hesim_data, hesim_survdists, hweibullNMA, icer_tbl, input_mats, joined_flexsurvreg, joined_flexsurvreg_list, joined_formula, joined_formula_list, lm_list, mean_weibullNMA and 16 more
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1.0
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2017-12-03
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-12-03
Total releases: 19 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 433 KB / 5 files
Download size: 3.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("hesim")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for hesim version 0.5.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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