R Observatory: Metrics for simstudy version 0.9.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

simstudy

0.9.2Package record

Simulation of Study Data

2packages dependsuggested by 3

15.3Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Keith GoldfeldCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Simulates data sets in order to explore modeling techniques or better understand data generating processes. The user specifies a set of relationships between covariates, and generates data based on these specifications. The final data sets can represent data from randomized control trials, repeated measure (longitudinal) designs, and cluster randomized trials. Missingness can be generated using various mechanisms (MCAR, MAR, NMAR).

Install

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

install.packages("simstudy", 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("kgoldfeld/simstudy")

Development version from kgoldfeld/simstudy. 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-simstudy

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-simstudy

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-simstudy

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTERd contentsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Rd files without \usage:
  ‘distributions.Rd’
\arguments should not be documented without \usage.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 9.5 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-11
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-07
OK13 OK2026-05-02

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NOTE11 OK, 1 NOTE2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-04-16
NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-28
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.9.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 14 · dynamicNEWS· In the repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 68 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 97%62 run in a plain check · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 97%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 94%
Help pages citing references: 9%

Vignettes (14)

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Spline Data HTML
Survival Data HTML
Targeted logistic model coefficients HTML
Treatment and Exposure HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

15.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,453 · ~42/day · ~1.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.3K30 days

3.1K90 days

15.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on487 r2u5 autocran24 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

kgoldfeld/simstudy ↗Account: kgoldfeld

86Stars

10Forks

22Open issues

0Open PRs

19Releases

906Commits

15Commit identities

rdata-simulationdata-generationsimulationstatistical-models

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 906 commits · Last activity 2026-06-25 · +1.2% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.9.2.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.9.2 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 88%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-07-09 · 832026-10-12 · 86

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

15 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/kgoldfeld/simstudy on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (4)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templatesSupport guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-25 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (2)

CITATION.cffcodemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

lintr

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

31 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing simstudy adds 14 packages (11 with compiled code, 26 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (8)

data.table gluemethodsmvnfast Rcpp backports fastglm pbv

LinkingTo (3)

Rcpp pbv fastglm

Suggests (26)

covr dplyr formatR gee ggplot2gridgridExtra hedgehog knitr magrittrMatrixmgcvordinal pracma rmarkdown scalessplinessurvivaltestthat gtsummary broom.helpers survminer katex dirmult rms lmerTest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

GCEstim RESIDE

Suggests, most downloaded first

coursekata Mmcsd simulab

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Keith Goldfeld

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2016)

Jacob Wujciak-Jens

Author · added in 0.2.0

Releases (30)

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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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addDataDensity, genDataDensity
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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trimData
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addMarkov, genMarkov, genNthEvent
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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addMultiFac, catProbs, genMultiFac, iccRE
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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addCorGen, gammaGetShapeRate, genCorGen
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-06-21
Total releases: 30 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 1.3 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("simstudy")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.21105/joss.02763.

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 simstudy version 0.9.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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