R Observatory: Metrics for quickblock version 0.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

quickblock

0.2.2Package record

Quick Threshold Blocking

0packages dependsuggested by 1

2.8Kdownloads / year

96.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Fredrik SavjeCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides functions for assigning treatments in randomized experiments using near-optimal threshold blocking. The package is made with large data sets in mind and derives blocks more than an order of magnitude quicker than other methods.

Changes in 0.2.2

Update email address.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("quickblock", 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("fsavje/quickblock")

Development version from fsavje/quickblock. 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-quickblock

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-quickblock

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-quickblock

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: 2.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.2

READMEYes · 129 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 80%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 50%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,585 · ~8/day · ~230/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30830 days

76390 days

2.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on336 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

fsavje/quickblock ↗Account: fsavje

7Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

48Commits

1Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 48 commits · Last activity 2023-11-29 · The default branch showed an older version (0.2.1.9000) than CRAN on 2026-10-22

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 88
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/fsavje/quickblock on 2026-10-22.

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing quickblock adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 191 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: scclust 107 KB, distances 84 KB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.4.0distances

Imports (1)

scclust

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

tidyhte

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Fredrik Savje

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2017)

Michael Higgins

Author

Jasjeet Sekhon

Author

Releases (5)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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2024-08-01 · current release · diff ↗
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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
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2018-08-22 · diff ↗
0.1.1
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2018-07-26 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2017-07-31
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-07-31
Total releases: 5 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 31 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("quickblock")

Format

Savje, F., Higgins, M., & Sekhon, J. (2024). quickblock: Quick Threshold Blocking (Version 0.2.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.quickblock

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 quickblock version 0.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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