R Observatory: Metrics for precisely version 0.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

precisely

0.1.2Package record

Estimate Sample Size Based on Precision Rather than Power

0packages depend

3.1Kdownloads / year

95.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Malcolm BarrettCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Estimate sample size based on precision rather than power. 'precisely' is a study planning tool to calculate sample size based on precision. Power calculations are focused on whether or not an estimate will be statistically significant; calculations of precision are based on the same principles as power calculation but turn the focus to the width of the confidence interval. 'precisely' is based on the work of 'Rothman and Greenland' (2018).

Changes in 0.1.2

Updated app to improve downloading, state bookmarking, and misc. bugs (#6).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("precisely", 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("malcolmbarrett/precisely")

Development version from malcolmbarrett/precisely. 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-precisely

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-precisely

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-precisely

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: 2.5 min · r-release-macos-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 0.1.2

READMEYes · 406 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 8 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 63%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 71%
Help pages citing references: 38%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to Precisely HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,027 · ~8/day · ~256/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36330 days

89990 days

3.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on86 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

malcolmbarrett/precisely ↗Account: malcolmbarrett

93Stars

5Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

72Commits

2Commit identities

72 commits · Last activity 2021-10-10 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.1.2.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.1.2 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 5
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-05-08 · 922026-07-07 · 93

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/malcolmbarrett/precisely 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 (5)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templatesFunding

Funding links: GitHub Sponsors

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (2)

README.Rmdpkgdown

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing precisely adds 54 packages (30 with compiled code, 53 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, bslib 5.6 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (9)

dplyr ggplot2 magrittr purrr rlang shiny shinycssloaders shinythemes tidyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

covr ggrepel knitr rmarkdown spelling testthat vdiffr

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)

Malcolm Barrett

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2020)

Releases (3)

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-06-02
Total releases: 3 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 2.2 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("precisely")

Format

Barrett, M. (2021). precisely: Estimate Sample Size Based on Precision Rather than Power (Version 0.1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.precisely

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

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 precisely version 0.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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