R Observatory: Metrics for pscDesign version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pscDesign

1.0.0Package record

Study Design for Personalised Synthetic Controls

0packages depend

1.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Richard JacksonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Tools for the design of prospective studies using Personalised Synthetic Controls. Can be used in either single arm or randomised studies.

Install

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

install.packages("pscDesign", 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/pscDesign")

Development version from richJJackson/pscDesign. 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-pscdesign

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-pscDesign

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-pscDesign

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: 4.3 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 ERROR2026-06-07
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 1.0.0

READMEYes · 422 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 10
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

psc-vignette HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

1.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,422 · ~4/day · ~134/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

18430 days

48890 days

1.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on58 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

richjjackson/pscdesign ↗Account: richJJackson

1Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

14Commits

1Commit identities

14 commits · Last activity 2026-01-23

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-06-09 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/richjjackson/pscdesign 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

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pscDesign adds 133 packages (70 with compiled code, 113 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 4.0.0survival

Imports (2)

psc S7

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

knitr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Richard Jackson

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.0Latest
record
2026-01-27 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-27
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 141 KB / 1 file
Download size: 376 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pscDesign")

Format

Jackson, R. (2026). pscDesign: Study Design for Personalised Synthetic Controls (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pscDesign

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 pscDesign version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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