R Observatory: Metrics for historicalborrow version 1.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

historicalborrow

1.1.1

Non-Longitudinal Bayesian Historical Borrowing Models

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7Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by William Michael LandauFirst published 2022-09-133 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Historical borrowing in clinical trials can improve precision and operating characteristics. This package supports a hierarchical model and a mixture model to borrow historical control data from other studies to better characterize the control response of the current study. It also quantifies the amount of borrowing through benchmark models (independent and pooled). Some of the methods are discussed by Viele et al. (2013) doi:10.1002/pst.1589.

Install

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

install.packages("historicalborrow", 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("wlandau/historicalborrow")

Development version from wlandau/historicalborrow. 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-historicalborrow

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-historicalborrow

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-historicalborrow

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 6.9 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.62

100.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

11

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 175 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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Rank #6,985 · ~19/day · ~587/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ wlandau/historicalborrow

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49 commits · Last activity 2026-02-09

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Checks run against github.com/wlandau/historicalborrow on 2026-08-16.

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (11)

dplyr ggplot2Matrixposterior rjags rlangstatstibble tidyr tidyselectutils

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none

Suggests (4)

knitr markdown rmarkdown testthat

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none

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

William Michael Landau

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

William Michael Landau

Author, Maintainer

Copyright holders (1)

Eli Lilly and Company

Copyright holder

Reviewers (1)

Albert Man

Reviewer

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Landau

no longer listed · 1.0.4 to 1.1.1

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-09-13
Total releases: 3 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 89 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("historicalborrow")

Format

Landau, W. M., Eli Lilly and Company, , & Man, A. (2026). historicalborrow: Non-Longitudinal Bayesian Historical Borrowing Models (Version 1.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.historicalborrow

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for historicalborrow version 1.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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