R Observatory: Metrics for psychds version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

psychds

0.1.0Package record

Creating and Validating 'Psych-DS' Datasets

0packages depend

33downloads / year

0.4%test coverage

9/9flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Brian LeonardCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides a 'Shiny' application and helper functions for adopting 'Psych-DS' (https://psych-ds.github.io/), a community data standard for organizing and documenting datasets in the psychological and behavioral sciences inspired by the Brain Imaging Data Structure ('BIDS'). A guided interface walks researchers through the dataset creation process, organizing tabular data files into proper 'Psych-DS' directory structures, generating new, compliant, keyword-based filenames, and generating machine-readable 'JSON' metadata. Additional tools support building and editing data dictionaries with variable-level descriptions, validating datasets against the full 'Psych-DS' specification via a bundled 'JavaScript' validator, and exploring dataset contents interactively.

Changes in 0.1.0

New Features

Initial CRAN release

Shiny Application

Three-step wizard for creating Psych-DS compliant datasets
Interactive file browser for selecting data files
Automatic detection of CSV column structures
Keyword-based filename standardization with batch operations
Auto-naming from constant columns in data files

Data Dictionary

Professional HTML data dictionary generator with modern styling
Support for variable descriptions, types, units, and constraints
Categorical value documentation with labels and descriptions

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Summary statistics display
Global missing value code definitions
Print-to-PDF support via browser

Validation

Dataset structure validation against Psych-DS specification
JSON schema validation for dataset_description.json
Detailed error messages and fix suggestions
Step-by-step validation progress display

OSF Integration

Authentication with OSF Personal Access Token
Upload to existing projects or create new ones
Folder structure preservation
Automatic README generation

Utilities

run_psych_ds_app() - Launch the Shiny application
check_psychds_deps() - Verify package dependencies
generate_html_dictionary() - Programmatic dictionary generation

Documentation

Comprehensive pkgdown website
Getting Started vignette
Shiny App Guide vignette
Data Dictionaries vignette
Full function reference

Known Issues

PDF generation requires external LaTeX installation or browser print-to-PDF
Large datasets (>100MB) may experience slower upload times to OSF and slower validation

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From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Fedora (COPR)

install.packages("psychds", 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("psych-ds/psychds-r")

Development version from psych-ds/psychds-r. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

# 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-psychds

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

9OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK9 OKNow
OK6 OK2026-10-16

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 405 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 12 (7 internal)
Examples that run: 67%2 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 60%
Documented parameters: 84%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

33

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #25,559 · ~0/day · ~3/mo

psychds Releases R versions

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3330 days

3390 days

331 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

psych-ds/psychds-r ↗Organization: psych-ds

3Stars

0Forks

8Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

77Commits

5Commit identities

77 commits · Last activity 2026-09-21

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 180
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Repository github.com/psych-ds/psychds-r is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing psychds adds 31 packages (19 with compiled code, 26 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (6)

cli jsonlite rstudioapi shinytoolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

crosstalk DT fs knitr miniUI pointblank rmarkdown shinydashboard shinyjs sortable spelling testthat (>= 3.0.0)zip

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Brian Leonard

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2026)

Melissa Kline Struhl

Author

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Copyright holder

Releases (1)

0.1.0Latest
record
2026-10-15 · current release ·
10 days in CRAN's queue
Listed in CRAN's incoming queue from 2026-10-05 20:05 to 2026-10-15 12:21 UTC, in 43 readings.
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Across CRAN, the median accepted release of the past year spent 19 hours in the queue, 90% under 11 days.How queue time is measured

Package metadata

First published: 2026-10-15
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Copyright: see file inst/COPYRIGHTS for bundled 'JavaScript' library copyrights and licenses
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 1.2 MB

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("psychds")

Format

Leonard, B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, & Kline Struhl, M. (2026). psychds: Creating and Validating 'Psych-DS' Datasets (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.psychds

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for psychds version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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