R Observatory: Metrics for pda version 1.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pda

1.3.0Package record

Privacy-Preserving Distributed Algorithms

0packages depend

13.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Chongliang LuoCRAN page ↗

A collection of privacy-preserving distributed algorithms (PDAs) for conducting federated statistical learning across multiple data sites. The PDA framework includes models for various tasks such as regression, trial emulation, causal inference, design-specific analysis, and clustering. The PDA algorithms run on a lead site and only require summary statistics from collaborating sites, with one or few iterations. The package can be used together with the online data transfer system (https://pda-ota.pdamethods.org/) for safe and convenient collaboration. For more information, please visit our software websites: https://github.com/Penncil/pda, and https://pdamethods.org/.

Changes in 1.3.0

Add pdaCataog() and DisC2o, ODACH_CC, COLA, ODACT, LATTE models

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From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("pda", 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-pda

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-pda

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-pda

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: 5.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.3.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 84 (63 internal)
Examples that run: 0%2 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 17%

Also includes 14 demo scripts (run with demo())

How these are measured

Downloads

13.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,799 · ~37/day · ~1.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

45430 days

1.1K90 days

13.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on363 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pda adds 69 packages (37 with compiled code, 71 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (22)

Rcppstatshttr rvest jsonlite data.table cobalt EmpiricalCalibrationsurvivalminqa glmnetMASSnumDeriv metaforMatrixordinal plyr tidyr tibble dplyr geex data.tree

LinkingTo (3)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo RcppEigen

Suggests (1)

lme4

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 (14)

Chongliang Luo

Maintainer since 1.3.0 (2025)

Author

Author

Author

Author · added in 1.3.0

Lu Li

Author · added in 1.3.0

Xiaokang Liu

Author · added in 1.2.5

Kenneth Locke

Author · added in 1.2.5

Yiwen Lu

Author · added in 1.2.8

Yicheng Shen

Author · added in 1.3.0

Jiayi Tong

Author

Yudong Wang

Author · added in 1.3.0

Bingyu Zhang

Author · added in 1.3.0

Penn Computing Inference Learning (PennCIL) lab

Copyright holder

Previously maintained by Yiwen Lu (1.2.8) and Jiajie Chen (1.2.5 to 1.2.7).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Jiajie Chen

no longer listed · 1.2.5 to 1.2.7

Releases (7)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.3.0Latest
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2025-11-17 · current release · diff ↗ ·
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pdaCatalog
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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2025-03-10 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2020-11-23
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-11-23
Total releases: 7 / 6 yrs
License: Apache License 2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 235 KB / 13 files
Download size: 361 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pda")

Format

Luo, C., Penn Computing Inference Learning (PennCIL) lab, Chen, Y., Duan, R., Edmondson, M., Hu, J., Li, L., Liu, X., Locke, K., Lu, Y., Shen, Y., Tong, J., Wang, Y., & Zhang, B. (2025). pda: Privacy-Preserving Distributed Algorithms (Version 1.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pda

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pda version 1.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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