R Observatory: Metrics for simstandard version 0.6.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

simstandard

0.6.3Package record

Generate Standardized Data

2packages dependsuggested by 2

5.8Kdownloads / year

90.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by W. Joel SchneiderCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Creates simulated data from structural equation models with standardized loading. Data generation methods are described in Schneider (2013) doi:10.1177/0734282913478046.

Changes in 0.6.3

Added get_factor_score_validity_se function to return factor score standard errors.
Added get_model_names function to return a list of model variable names.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("simstandard", 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("wjschne/simstandard")

Development version from wjschne/simstandard. 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-simstandard

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-simstandard

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-simstandard

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: 1.8 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK, 1 FAILURE2026-06-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.6.3

READMEYes · 357 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.6.3Citation fileNo

Help pages: 15 (2 internal)
Examples that run: 100%12 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 86%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Using the simstandard package

How these are measured

Downloads

5.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,752 · ~16/day · ~480/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

61930 days

1.5K90 days

5.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on82 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

wjschne/simstandard ↗Account: wjschne

6Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

75Commits

1Commit identities

License file reads as CC0-1.0 · 75 commits · Last activity 2024-04-13 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.7.0, ahead of CRAN 0.6.3 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2024-04-01 · 62026-07-07 · 6

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/wjschne/simstandard 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 2024-04-13 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

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 simstandard adds 17 packages (12 with compiled code, 7.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: lavaan 1.6 MB, mvtnorm 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (7)

lavaan mvtnorm tibblestatsmagrittr rlang purrr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

knitr rmarkdown ggplot2 dplyr tidyr forcats stringr testthat covr badger

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

FCO kfa

Suggests, most downloaded first

ggdiagram unusualprofile

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

W. Joel Schneider

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2018)

Releases (7)

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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
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.6.3Latest
record
2021-05-07 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
get_factor_score_coefficients, get_factor_score_validity, get_factor_score_validity_se, get_model_names
0.6.2
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2021-01-21 · diff ↗
0.6.0
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2020-11-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
get_model_implied_correlations
0.5.0
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2020-10-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
add_composite_scores
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.3.0
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2019-01-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
lav2ram, matrix2lavaan
0.2.0
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2018-11-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
%>%, add_factor_scores, fixed2free, model_complete
0.1.0
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2018-10-16
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-10-16
Total releases: 7 / 8 yrs
License: CC0
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 1.3 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("simstandard")

Format

Schneider, W. J. (2021). simstandard: Generate Standardized Data (Version 0.6.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.simstandard

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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 simstandard version 0.6.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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