R Observatory: Metrics for rcssci version 0.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rcssci

0.4.0Package record

Visualization of Restricted Cubic Splines

0packages depend

4.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Zhiqiang NieCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Restricted Cubic Splines were performed to explore the shape of association form of "U, inverted U, L" shape and test linearity or non-linearity base on "Cox,Logistic,linear,quasipoisson" regression, and auto output Restricted Cubic Splines figures. rcssci package could automatically draw RCS graphics with Y-axis "OR,HR,RR,beta". The Restricted Cubic Splines method were based on Suli Huang (2022) doi:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2022.113183,Amit Kaura (2019) doi:10.1136/bmj.l6055, and Harrell Jr (2015, ISBN:978-3-319-19424-0 (Print) 978-3-319-19425-7 (Online)).

Install

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

install.packages("rcssci", 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("popnie/RCSsci")

Development version from popnie/RCSsci. 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-rcssci

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-rcssci

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-rcssci

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTERd contentsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Rd files without \usage:
  ‘rcs_cox.lshap.Rd’ ‘rcs_cox.nshap.Rd’ ‘rcs_cox.prob.Rd’
  ‘rcs_cox.ushap.Rd’ ‘rcs_linear.lshap.Rd’ ‘rcs_linear.nshap.Rd’
  ‘rcs_linear.prob.Rd’ ‘rcs_linear.ushap.Rd’ ‘rcs_logistic.lshap.Rd’
  ‘rcs_logistic.nshap.Rd’ ‘rcs_logistic.prob.Rd’
  ‘rcs_logistic.ushap.Rd’ ‘rcs_quasipoisson.lshap.Rd’
  ‘rcs_quasipoisson.nshap.Rd’ ‘rcs_quasipoisson.prob.Rd’
  ‘rcs_quasipoisson.ushap.Rd’ ‘rcssci_cox.Rd’ ‘rcssci_linear.Rd’
  ‘rcssci_logistic.Rd’ ‘rcssci_quasipoisson.Rd’
\arguments should not be documented without \usage.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-11
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 21
Examples that run: 81%17 run in a plain check · 4 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,073 · ~12/day · ~361/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31530 days

96190 days

4.3K1 year

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Also on62 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

popnie/rcssci ↗

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Repository github.com/popnie/rcssci is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rcssci adds 118 packages (60 with compiled code, 111 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, TH.data 8.2 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (9)

pacman rms ggplot2 survminer segmentedsurvivaldplyr patchwork Cairo

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

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 (3)

Zhiqiang Nie

ORCID = 0000-0001-7642-3286, wechat = Biostatistics-SCI

JunZhang

Contributor

Chaolei Chen

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Leichao Chen

no longer listed · 0.1.0

Releases (3)

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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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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.4.0Latest
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2023-02-15 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
rcs_quasipoisson.lshap, rcs_quasipoisson.nshap, rcs_quasipoisson.prob, rcs_quasipoisson.ushap, rcssci_quasipoisson
0.2.0
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2022-11-07 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2022-10-10
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-10-10
Total releases: 3 / 4 yrs
License: Artistic-2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Bundled data: 19 KB / 1 file
Download size: 34 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rcssci")

Format

Nie, Z., JunZhang, & Chen, C. (2023). rcssci: Visualization of Restricted Cubic Splines (Version 0.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rcssci

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 rcssci version 0.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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