R Observatory: Metrics for rolescry version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rolescry

0.2.0

Name-Blind Variable-Role Detection by Data Signature

0packages depend

410downloads / year

68.4%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Can BoynukaraFirst published 2026-06-222 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Deterministic, name-blind detection of variable roles (group, outcome, survival time and event, paired and agreement measurements, repeated measures, scale items, subject identifier, covariate) in tabular data. Roles are assigned from each column's information-theoretic signature -- Shannon entropy, normalized mutual information, and distributional shape -- rather than from column names, so renaming columns to 'col_1', 'col_2', ... does not change the result ("Data inspice, non nomen"). An optional, capped name-based hint and automatic header-row detection are also provided. No large language models and no external data transmission. Extracted from the 'MDStatR' biostatistics engine; see Boynukara (2026) doi:10.5281/zenodo.20707791.

Install

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

install.packages("rolescry", 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("canboynukara/rolescry")

Development version from canboynukara/rolescry. 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-rolescry

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-rolescry

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-rolescry

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.15

68.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-23
6 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 332 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

410

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #23,600 · ~1/day · ~34/mo

Releases R versions

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14330 days

41090 days

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Repository

GitHub ↗ canboynukara/rolescry

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

14Commits

1Contributors

License Apache-2.0 · 14 commits · Last activity 2026-07-28 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2026-06-22 · 12026-07-07 · 1

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/canboynukara/rolescry on 2026-08-09.

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (2)

CITATION.cffJOSS paper

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (2)

statsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

moments diptest stringdist readxl openxlsx haven testthat knitr rmarkdown spelling

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Can Boynukara

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Can Boynukara

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Contributors (1)

M. Yasir Ceyhan

Contributor

Copyright holders (1)

Can Boynukara

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Listed in earlier versions (1)

M. Yasir

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.2.0

Package Timeline

2 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

0.2.0Latest
2026-07-20 · current release · diff ↗
0.1.0
2026-06-22
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-06-22
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: Apache License (== 2.0)
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rolescry")

The authors publish a CITATION.cff and a JOSS paper, so they have said how they want this cited. Run citation() and use what it gives you.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rolescry version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-14. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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