R Observatory: Metrics for simhelpers version 0.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

simhelpers

0.3.1Package record

Helper Functions for Simulation Studies

1packages depend

3.4Kdownloads / year

55.6%test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Megha JoshiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Calculates performance criteria measures and associated Monte Carlo standard errors for simulation results. Includes functions to help run simulation studies, following a general simulation workflow that closely aligns with the approach described by Morris, White, and Crowther (2019) DOI:10.1002/sim.8086. Also includes functions for calculating bootstrap confidence intervals (including normal, basic, studentized, percentile, bias-corrected, and bias-corrected-and-accelerated) with tidy output, as well as for extrapolating confidence interval coverage rates and hypothesis test rejection rates following techniques suggested by Boos and Zhang (2000) DOI:10.1080/01621459.2000.10474226.

Changes in 0.3.1

Added support for bias-corrected and bias-corrected-and-accelerated (BCa) bootstrap confidence intervals.
Corrected an error in the documentation of bundle_sim().

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("simhelpers", 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("meghapsimatrix/simhelpers")

Development version from meghapsimatrix/simhelpers. 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-simhelpers

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-simhelpers

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-simhelpers

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTEDESCRIPTION meta-informationr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    ‘bootstrap-projection.R’ ‘bootstrap_CIs.Rd’ ‘bundle_sim.R’
    ‘calc_coverage.R’ ‘calc_rejection.R’ ‘extrapolate_coverage.Rd’
    ‘utilities.R’

r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    'bootstrap-projection.R' 'bootstrap_CIs.Rd' 'bundle_sim.R'
    'calc_coverage.R' 'calc_rejection.R' 'extrapolate_coverage.Rd'
    'utilities.R'

r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    ‘bootstrap-projection.R’ ‘bundle_sim.R’ ‘calc_coverage.R’
    ‘calc_rejection.R’ ‘utilities.R’

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR12 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE3 OK, 11 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 0.3.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 17
Examples that run: 92%12 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 92%
Help pages citing references: 24% with a bibliography file

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,357 · ~9/day · ~279/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34730 days

1K90 days

3.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on76 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

meghapsimatrix/simhelpers ↗Account: meghapsimatrix

14Stars

4Forks

8Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

773Commits

4Commit identities

773 commits · Last activity 2026-10-07 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.3.1.99991, ahead of CRAN 0.3.1 (checked 2026-10-25)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 5
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-30 · 122026-09-15 · 14

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/meghapsimatrix/simhelpers on 2026-10-25.

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 2026-10-07 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-07

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

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

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing simhelpers adds 29 packages (15 with compiled code, 21 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, rbibutils 1.1 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (5)

statsfurrr tidyr rstudioapi Rdpack

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

dplyr tibble purrr future knitr rmarkdown pkgdown covr testthat kableExtra ggplot2 broomboot

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

metaselection

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Megha Joshi

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2020)

James Pustejovsky

Author

Releases (7)

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
0.3.1Latest
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2025-01-10 · current release · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2024-09-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
bootstrap_CIs, bootstrap_pvals, extrapolate_coverage, extrapolate_rejection, repeat_and_stack
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.1
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2024-02-29 · diff ↗
0.2.0
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2024-02-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
bundle_sim
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.2
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2022-05-04 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
pattern:^[[:alpha:]]+

added 7 exports
calc_absolute, calc_coverage, calc_rejection, calc_relative, calc_relative_var, create_skeleton, evaluate_by_row
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.1
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2021-02-14 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.0
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2020-03-31
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-03-31
Total releases: 7 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 676 KB / 4 files
Download size: 970 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("simhelpers")

Format

Joshi, M., & Pustejovsky, J. (2025). simhelpers: Helper Functions for Simulation Studies (Version 0.3.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.simhelpers

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for simhelpers version 0.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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