R Observatory: Metrics for simsurv version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

simsurv

1.0.1

Simulate Survival Data

6packages depend

16.7Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Sam BrillemanFirst published 2017-07-276 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Simulate survival times from standard parametric survival distributions (exponential, Weibull, Gompertz), 2-component mixture distributions, or a user-defined hazard, log hazard, cumulative hazard, or log cumulative hazard function. Baseline covariates can be included under a proportional hazards assumption. Time dependent effects (i.e. non-proportional hazards) can be included by interacting covariates with linear time or a user-defined function of time. Clustered event times are also accommodated. The 2-component mixture distributions can allow for a variety of flexible baseline hazard functions reflecting those seen in practice. If the user wishes to provide a user-defined hazard or log hazard function then this is possible, and the resulting cumulative hazard function does not need to have a closed-form solution. For details see the supporting paper doi:10.18637/jss.v097.i03. Note that this package is modelled on the 'survsim' package available in the 'Stata' software (see Crowther and Lambert (2012) https://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=st0275 or Crowther and Lambert (2013) doi:10.1002/sim.5823).

Install

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

install.packages("simsurv", 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("sambrilleman/simsurv")

Development version from sambrilleman/simsurv. 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-simsurv

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-simsurv

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-simsurv

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 6.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.14

0.0%

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
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 100%

Downloads

16.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,942 · ~46/day · ~1.4K/mo

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16.7K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ sambrilleman/simsurv

24Stars

8Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

127Commits

4Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 127 commits · Last activity 2026-01-22

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/sambrilleman/simsurv on 2026-08-16.

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (2)

methodsstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

BB eha flexsurv knitrMASSrmarkdown rstpm2 survival (>= 2.40.1)testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

0indirect

pacheck psborrow2 BayesSurvival KMunicate pmcalibration smdi

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Sam Brilleman

Maintainer, Author, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Sam Brilleman

Maintainer, Author, Copyright holder

Contributors (1)

Alessandro Gasparini

Contributor · added in 0.2.2

Copyright holders (1)

Sam Brilleman

Maintainer, Author, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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

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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
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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0.2.2
2018-05-18 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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0.1.0
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-07-27
Total releases: 6 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) | file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Bundled data: 3.5 KB / 1 file
Download size: 124 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Brilleman, S., & Gasparini, A. (2026). simsurv: Simulate Survival Data (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.simsurv

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for simsurv version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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