R Observatory: Metrics for risks version 0.4.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

risks

0.4.3Package record

Estimate Risk Ratios and Risk Differences using Regression

2packages depend

7.7Kdownloads / year

89.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Konrad StopsackCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Risk ratios and risk differences are estimated using regression models that allow for binary, categorical, and continuous exposures and confounders. Implemented are marginal standardization after fitting logistic models (g-computation) with delta-method and bootstrap standard errors, Miettinen's case-duplication approach (Schouten et al. 1993, doi:10.1002/sim.4780121808), log-binomial (Poisson) models with empirical variance (Zou 2004, doi:10.1093/aje/kwh090), binomial models with starting values from Poisson models (Spiegelman and Hertzmark 2005, doi:10.1093/aje/kwi188), and others.

Install

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

install.packages("risks", 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("stopsack/risks")

Development version from stopsack/risks. 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-risks

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-risks

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-risks

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: 5.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
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 0.4.3

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWS· In the repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 15 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 89%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 13%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

7.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,313 · ~21/day · ~646/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

43230 days

1.3K90 days

7.7K1 year

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Also on90 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

stopsack/risks ↗Account: stopsack

8Stars

1Forks

5Open issues

1Open PRs

1Releases

205Commits

5Commit identities

binomialbiostatisticsepidemiologyregression-models

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 205 commits · Last activity 2025-06-01

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 82%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 37
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Issues over time

2026-07-14 · 42026-09-19 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/stopsack/risks on 2026-10-21.

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 (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-06-01 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-06-01

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing risks adds 25 packages (14 with compiled code, 21 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sandwich 1.4 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (10)

bootbcaboot broom dplyr purrr rlang sandwichstatstibble tidyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

addreg covr knitr logbinMASSrmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

gtregression rifttable

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Konrad Stopsack

Travis Gerke

Author

Releases (2)

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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-06-13
Total releases: 2 / 3 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 0.3 KB / 1 file
Download size: 4.3 MB

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citation("risks")

Format

Stopsack, K., & Gerke, T. (2025). risks: Estimate Risk Ratios and Risk Differences using Regression (Version 0.4.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.risks

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for risks version 0.4.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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