R Observatory: Metrics for ptable version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ptable

1.0.0Package record

Generation of Perturbation Tables for the Cell-Key Method

1packages depend

3.5Kdownloads / year

99.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tobias EnderleCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Tabular data from statistical institutes and agencies are mostly confidential and must be protected prior to publications. The cell-key method is a post-tabular Statistical Disclosure Control perturbation technique that adds random noise to tabular data. The statistical properties of the perturbations are defined by some noise probability distributions - also referred to as perturbation tables. This tool can be used to create the perturbation tables based on a maximum entropy approach as described for example in Giessing (2016) doi:10.1007/978-3-319-45381-1_18. The perturbation tables created can finally be used to apply a cell-key method to frequency count or magnitude tables.

Changes in 1.0.0

CRAN submission
fix CRAN submission issues: replace \dontrun with \donttest,

remove examples, use on.exit(), use return values, use interactive(),

replace cat() with message(), adjust DESCRIPTION file

update: file extension in pt_export() and plot()

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ptable", 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("sdcTools/ptable")

Development version from sdcTools/ptable. 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-ptable

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-ptable

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-ptable

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: 3.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-07
OK13 OK2026-05-12

Show 2 earlier changesHide 2 earlier changes

WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-11
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

READMEYes · 522 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.0.0Citation fileNo

Help pages: 12
Examples that run: 56%5 run in a plain check · 4 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to the ptable-Package HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,029 · ~10/day · ~289/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

47630 days

90490 days

3.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on65 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

sdctools/ptable ↗Organization: sdcToolsFork of tenderle/ptable

2Stars

1Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

182Commits

3Commit identities

License file reads as EUPL-1.2 · 182 commits · Last activity 2023-03-03 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.0.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.0.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 86%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 654
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 32026-09-11 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/sdctools/ptable 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)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2023-03-03

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting.covrignore

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ptable adds 52 packages (27 with compiled code, 49 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, bslib 5.6 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6

Imports (8)

data.table flexdashboard ggplot2methodsnloptr RColorBrewer rlang rmarkdown

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

cellKey

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Tobias Enderle

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2023)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.0Latest
record
2023-03-01 · current release
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-03-01
Total releases: 1 / 3 yrs
License: EUPL
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6
Download size: 169 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ptable")

Format

Enderle, T. (2023). ptable: Generation of Perturbation Tables for the Cell-Key Method (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ptable

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 ptable version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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