R Observatory: Metrics for prnsamplr version 1.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

prnsamplr

1.1.0Package record

Permanent Random Number Sampling

0packages depend

7.1Kdownloads / year

94.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kira Coder GyllingCRAN page ↗

Survey sampling using permanent random numbers (PRN's). A solution to the problem of unknown overlap between survey samples, which leads to a low precision in estimates when the survey is repeated or combined with other surveys. The PRN solution is to supply the U(0, 1) random numbers to the sampling procedure, instead of having the sampling procedure generate them. In Lindblom (2014) doi:10.2478/jos-2014-0047, and therein cited papers, it is shown how this is carried out and how it improves the estimates. This package supports two common fixed-size sampling procedures (simple random sampling and probability-proportional-to-size sampling) and includes a function for transforming the PRN's in order to control the sample overlap.

Install

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

install.packages("prnsamplr", 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-prnsamplr

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-prnsamplr

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-prnsamplr

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: 1.6 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

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Documentation

In release 1.1.0

READMEYes · 162 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 33%

How these are measured

Downloads

7.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,763 · ~19/day · ~588/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

43630 days

1.2K90 days

7.1K1 year

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Also on92 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing prnsamplr adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 766 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: rlang 766 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2

Imports (2)

rlangstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

data.table stringr testthat (>= 3.0.0)tibble

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (1)

Kira Coder Gylling

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2019)

Releases (7)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2025-04-17 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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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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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.1
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2020-02-09 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
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added 4 exports
pps, samp, srs, transformprn
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.0
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2019-03-02
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-03-02
Total releases: 7 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2
Bundled data: 412 KB / 1 file
Download size: 514 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

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citation("prnsamplr")

Format

Coder Gylling, K. (2025). prnsamplr: Permanent Random Number Sampling (Version 1.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.prnsamplr

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 prnsamplr version 1.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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