R Observatory: Metrics for mixpower version 1.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mixpower

1.1.1Package record

Simulation-Based Power Analysis for Mixed-Effects Models

0packages depend

2.4Kdownloads / year

80.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Alex LitovchenkoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A comprehensive, simulation-based toolkit for power and sample-size analysis for linear and generalized linear mixed-effects models (LMMs and GLMMs). Supports Gaussian, binomial, Poisson, and negative binomial families via 'lme4'; Wald and likelihood-ratio tests; multi-parameter sensitivity grids; power curves and minimum sample-size solvers; parallel evaluation with deterministic seeds; and full reproducibility (manifests, result bundling, and export to CSV/JSON). Delivers thorough diagnostics per run (failure rate, singular-fit rate, effective N) and publication-ready summary tables. References: Bates et al. (2015) "Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4" doi:10.18637/jss.v067.i01; Green and MacLeod (2016) "SIMR: an R package for power analysis of generalized linear mixed models by simulation" doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12504.

Changes in 1.1.1

Reduce overall R CMD check time well under CRAN's budget: vignettes now use small toy designs and few iterations, and the heavy simulation/correctness tests are marked skip_on_cran() (they still run in continuous integration and the lme4 path is exercised by examples). No user-facing changes.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("mixpower", 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("alitovchenko/mixpower")

Development version from alitovchenko/mixpower. 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-mixpower

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-mixpower

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-mixpower

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: 5.8 min · r-oldrel-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 1.1.1

READMEYes · 383 wordsVignettesYes · 8 · evaluation depends on the environmentNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.1Citation fileYes · software entry only

Description cites a JSS article

Help pages: 55 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 56%10 run in a plain check · 8 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 35%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 96%
Help pages citing references: 2%

Vignettes (8)

Designing studies HTML
Diagnostics and sensitivity HTML
Effect sizes: maximal models, fitted pilots, and safeguard power HTML
Extending mixpower with custom backends HTML
mixpower intro HTML
Reproducibility workflow HTML
Running simulations HTML
Validation: is your power number trustworthy? HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,045 · ~7/day · ~200/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34730 days

91390 days

2.4K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

alitovchenko/mixpower ↗Account: alitovchenko

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

49Commits

3Commit identities

49 commits · Last activity 2026-06-27 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.2.0, ahead of CRAN 1.1.1 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2026-07-07 · 02026-07-29 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/alitovchenko/mixpower on 2026-10-18.

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 (5)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templatesPR templateSecurity policy

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-03-15 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mixpower adds 8 packages (6 with compiled code, 11 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: lme4 4.1 MB, nloptr 2.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (2)

statslme4

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

testthat knitr rmarkdown digest jsonlite glmmTMB lmerTest pbkrtest dplyr tidyr ggplot2 tibble

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Alex Litovchenko

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.1.1

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2026)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Mixpower Alex Litovchenko

no longer listed · 0.1.0

Releases (2)

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1.1.1Latest
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2026-06-25 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 29 exports
mp_backend, mp_backend_glmmtmb, mp_beta_to_d, mp_beta_to_r2, mp_calibrate, mp_compare_models, mp_d_to_beta, mp_extend, mp_f_to_beta, mp_from_fit, mp_grid_sample_size, mp_icc_to_sd, mp_logodds_to_or, mp_methods_text, mp_missing, mp_or_to_logodds, mp_parallel_cluster, mp_power_checkpoint, mp_quick_power, mp_r2_to_beta, mp_recommend_method, mp_safeguard_effect, mp_scenario_glmmtmb_lmm, mp_sd_to_icc, mp_sensitivity_cell_run, mp_sensitivity_parallel, mp_sesoi, mp_t_to_beta, validate_mp_backend
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0
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2026-02-12
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-02-12
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 204 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("mixpower")

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 mixpower version 1.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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