R Observatory: Metrics for sondage version 0.9.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sondage

0.9.1Package record

Survey Sampling Algorithms

0packages depend

712downloads / year

94.0%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ahmadou DickoCRAN page ↗GitLab ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Fast implementations of survey sampling algorithms for single-stage probability sampling from finite populations, written in C. Provides equal probability methods (simple random sampling, systematic, Bernoulli), unequal probability methods (conditional Poisson / maximum entropy, Sampford, Brewer, systematic PPS, Pareto, sequential Poisson, Poisson, Chromy's minimum replacement, multinomial), balanced sampling via the cube method, and spatially balanced sampling via the local pivotal method and spatially correlated Poisson sampling. All sampling functions return design objects carrying sample indices, inclusion probabilities, and design metadata. Generics compute joint inclusion probabilities, pairwise expectations, and sampling covariances for variance estimation. Mostly based on algorithms from Tillé (2006, doi:10.1007/0-387-34240-0).

Install

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

install.packages("sondage", 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("dickoa/sondage")

Development version from dickoa/sondage. 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-sondage

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-sondage

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-sondage

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

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Ahmadou Dicko <mail@ahmadoudicko.com>’

The BugReports field in DESCRIPTION has
  https://gitlab.com/dickoa/sondage/-/work_items
which should likely be
  https://gitlab.com/dickoa/sondage/-/issues
instead.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE9 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-05
OK8 OK2026-08-04

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.9.1

READMEYes · 1,391 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · evaluation depends on the environmentNEWS· In the repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 20includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%17 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 35%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

712

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,371 · ~2/day · ~59/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

20330 days

71290 days

7121 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on35 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

gitlab.com/dickoa/sondage ↗

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

80Commits

1Commit identities

surveysamplingR

80 commits · Last activity 2026-10-10 · Default branch at 0.11.0, ahead of CRAN 0.9.1 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against gitlab.com/dickoa/sondage on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowGitLab CI

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

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

Air

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-10-04
Commits: at least 1 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 5.51 commit · Oct 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown sampling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Ahmadou Dicko

Author, Maintainer since 0.9.0 (2026)

Thomas Lumley

Contributor

Wilmer Prentius

Contributor, Copyright holder

Author of the BalancedSampling 2.0.6 (GPL >= 2) cube implementation from which src/cube.c was ported

Releases (2)

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0.9.1Latest
record
2026-08-04 · current release · diff ↗
0.9.0
record
2026-08-03
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-08-03
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 207 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("sondage")

Format

Dicko, A., Lumley, T., & Prentius, W. (2026). sondage: Survey Sampling Algorithms (Version 0.9.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sondage

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 sondage version 0.9.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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