R Observatory: Metrics for psc version 2.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

psc

2.1.0Package record

Personalised Synthetic Controls

1packages depend

4.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Richard JacksonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Allows the comparison of data cohorts (DC) against a Counter Factual Model (CFM) and measures the difference in terms of an efficacy parameter. Allows the application of Personalised Synthetic Controls.

Install

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

install.packages("psc", 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("richjjackson/psc")

Development version from richjjackson/psc. 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-psc

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-psc

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-psc

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: 4.7 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 2.1.0

READMEYes · 192 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.1.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 58 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%8 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 55%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 91%
Help pages citing references: 2%

Vignettes (1)

psc-vignette HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

4.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,548 · ~12/day · ~375/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28730 days

75190 days

4.5K1 year

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Also on130 r2u8 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

richjjackson/psc ↗Account: richJJackson

2Stars

1Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

273Commits

1Commit identities

273 commits · Last activity 2026-06-08

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 87%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-04-11 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/richjjackson/psc 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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-08 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-06-08

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing psc adds 132 packages (70 with compiled code, 111 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (3)

R >= 4.0.0survivalggplot2

Imports (12)

mvtnorm enrichwithstatsflexsurv survminer gtsummary RColorBrewerparallelggpubr posterior lme4utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown devtools testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

pscDesign

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Richard Jackson

Releases (7)

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2.1.0Latest
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2026-06-08 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
pscComb
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-01-12
2.0.1
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2026-01-12 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-12-22
policy violation Vignette installs development version from github
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-11-13
2.0.0
record
2025-11-13 · diff ↗ ·
removed 13 exports
cfmDataSumm, cfmDataVis, dataComb, dataSumm, facVis, facVisComp, linPred, modelExtract, numVis, numVisComp, pscSumm, surv_fpm, visComp

added 8 exports
init, plotCFM, postSummary, pscData, pscEst, pscEst_run, pscEst_start, pscEst_update
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-09-09
requires archived package 'waffle'
1.3.0
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2025-05-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
cfmDataSumm, cfmDataVis, facVis, facVisComp, numVis, numVisComp, pscCFM, visComp
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.2.0
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2025-04-10 · diff ↗
1.1.0
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2024-12-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
dataSumm
1.0.0
record
2024-11-20
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-11-20
Total releases: 7 / 2 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 1.9 MB / 7 files
Download size: 1.8 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("psc")

Format

Jackson, R. (2026). psc: Personalised Synthetic Controls (Version 2.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.psc

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

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for psc version 2.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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