R Observatory: Metrics for smd version 0.8.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

smd

0.8.0Package record

Compute Standardized Mean Differences

2packages dependsuggested by 3

54.5Kdownloads / year

94.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Bradley SaulCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Computes standardized mean differences and confidence intervals for multiple data types based on Yang, D., & Dalton, J. E. (2012) https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings12/335-2012.pdf.

Install

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

install.packages("smd", 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("bsaul/smd")

Development version from bsaul/smd. 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-smd

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-smd

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-smd

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: 1.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.8.0

READMEYes · 32 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 9 (8 internal)
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 11%

Vignettes (1)

Using smd HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

54.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,645 · ~149/day · ~4.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.9K30 days

13.5K90 days

54.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on146 r2u3 autocran1.1K conda_forge93 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

bsaul/smd ↗Account: bsaul

4Stars

5Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

205Commits

10Commit identities

205 commits · Last activity 2025-02-03

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-04-29 · 42026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/bsaul/smd 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

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-02-03 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Nix

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

Lint workflow

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing smd adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

MASSmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

testthat stddiff tableone knitr dplyr purrr markdown rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

halfmoon tidysmd

Suggests, most downloaded first

gtsummary cardx smdi

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Bradley Saul

Author, Maintainer since 0.6.6 (2020)

Malcolm Barrett

Contributor · added in 0.8.0

Alex Breskin

Contributor

Matt Phelan

Contributor

Nuvan Rathnayaka

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

Daniel Sjoberg

Contributor · added in 0.6.7

Catie Wiener

Contributor

Releases (4)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.8.0Latest
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2025-02-12 · current release · diff ↗
0.7.0
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2024-05-06 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.6.7
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2024-03-29 · diff ↗
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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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2020-10-22
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-10-22
Total releases: 4 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 20 KB

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Meta-Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("smd")

Format

Saul, B., Barrett, M., Breskin, A., Phelan, M., Rathnayaka, N., Sjoberg, D., & Wiener, C. (2025). smd: Compute Standardized Mean Differences (Version 0.8.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.smd

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

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 smd version 0.8.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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