R Observatory: Metrics for retrodesign version 0.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

retrodesign

0.2.2Package record

Tools for Type S (Sign) and Type M (Magnitude) Errors

1packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

65.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Andrew TimmCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides tools for working with Type S (Sign) and Type M (Magnitude) errors, as proposed in Gelman and Tuerlinckx (2000) doi:10.1007/s001800000040 and Gelman & Carlin (2014) doi:10.1177/1745691614551642. In addition to simply calculating the probability of Type S/M error, the package includes functions for calculating these errors across a variety of effect sizes for comparison, and recommended sample size given "tolerances" for Type S/M errors. To improve the speed of these calculations, closed forms solutions for the probability of a Type S/M error from Lu, Qiu, and Deng (2018) doi:10.1111/bmsp.12132 are implemented. As of 1.0.0, this includes support only for simple research designs. See the package vignette for a fuller exposition on how Type S/M errors arise in research, and how to analyze them using the type of design analysis proposed in the above papers.

Changes in 0.2.2

Changes:

Resolved a bug wherein the type M error for retrodesign was not equal to that of retrodesign_closed_form. A test case for this type of issue was to prevent this from occuring again.

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("retrodesign", 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("andytimm/retrodesign")

Development version from andytimm/retrodesign. 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-retrodesign

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-retrodesign

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-retrodesign

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: 1.2 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
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.2

READMEYes · 319 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 0.2.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 14
Examples that run: 100%14 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

An Introduction to Type S and M errors in Hypothesis Testing HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,969 · ~8/day · ~252/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

32030 days

73590 days

3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on80 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

andytimm/retrodesign ↗Account: andytimm

10Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

65Commits

1Commit identities

65 commits · Last activity 2024-03-28 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 73
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-31 · 62026-09-07 · 10

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/andytimm/retrodesign on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing retrodesign adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (1)

graphics

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

ggplot2 knitr rmarkdown gridExtra testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

SSDforR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Andrew Timm

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2019), Author

John Carlin

Contributor, Copyright holder

Andrew Gelman

Contributor, Copyright holder

Martijn Weterings

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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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
0.2.2Latest
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2024-03-28 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-11-02
0.2.1
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2023-11-02 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-09-06
check issues were not corrected in time
0.2.0
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2023-08-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
retro_design_closed_form
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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
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.0
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2019-03-08
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-03-08
Total releases: 4 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Download size: 44 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("retrodesign")

Format

Timm, A., Carlin, J., Gelman, A., & Weterings, M. (2024). retrodesign: Tools for Type S (Sign) and Type M (Magnitude) Errors (Version 0.2.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.retrodesign

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 retrodesign version 0.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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