R Observatory: Metrics for howManyImputations version 0.2.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

howManyImputations

0.2.6Package record

Calculate How many Imputations are Needed for Multiple Imputation

0packages depend

4.1Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Josh ErricksonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

When performing multiple imputations, while 5-10 imputations are sufficient for obtaining point estimates, a larger number of imputations are needed for proper standard error estimates. This package allows you to calculate how many imputations are needed, following the work of von Hippel (2020) doi:10.1177/0049124117747303.

Changes in 0.2.6

Switch back from **tinytest** to **testthat**

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("howManyImputations", 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("josherrickson/howManyImputations")

Development version from josherrickson/howManyImputations. 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-howmanyimputations

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-howManyImputations

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-howManyImputations

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: 2.2 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

Show 2 earlier changesHide 2 earlier changes

ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.6

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.6Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,383 · ~11/day · ~339/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33230 days

99690 days

4.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on85 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

josherrickson/howmanyimputations ↗Account: josherrickson

8Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

87Commits

2Commit identities

87 commits · Last activity 2026-08-24

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Commits over time

2026-07-19 · 822026-09-15 · 87

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/josherrickson/howmanyimputations on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-03-15

pkgdown site last built 2024-03-15, before release 0.2.6 (2026-08-24)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing howManyImputations adds 53 packages (31 with compiled code, 40 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, lme4 4.3 MB, glmnet 2.7 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

methodsstatsmice

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

roxygen2 jomo Amelia mitools testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Josh Errickson

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.2 (2022)

Releases (5)

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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-04-06
Total releases: 5 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 4.5 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("howManyImputations")

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

Cite the R Observatory

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for howManyImputations version 0.2.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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