R Observatory: Metrics for survdnn version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

survdnn

1.0.0Package record

Deep Neural Networks for Survival Analysis with R 'torch'

1packages depend

4Kdownloads / year

2.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Imad El BadisyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides deep learning models for right-censored survival data using the 'torch' backend. Supports multiple loss functions, including Cox partial likelihood, L2-penalized Cox, time-dependent Cox, and accelerated failure time (AFT) loss. Offers a formula-based interface, built-in support for cross-validation, hyperparameter tuning, survival curve plotting, and evaluation metrics such as the C-index, Brier score, and integrated Brier score. For methodological details, see Kvamme et al. (2019) https://www.jmlr.org/papers/v20/18-424.html. The package is described in El Badisy (2026) doi:10.32614/RJ-2026-008.

Changes in 1.0.0

CRAN resubmission update

Milestone release: the package's methods paper is now published in The R Journal (El Badisy 2026, <doi:10.32614/RJ-2026-008>), cited in DESCRIPTION's Description field and a matching inst/CITATION file.
Standardized the maintainer's family-name casing to "El Badisy" (title case) in Authors@R, matching the rest of the package suite. Daniel Falbel remains listed as a contributor (ctb).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("survdnn", 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("ielbadisy/survdnn")

Development version from ielbadisy/survdnn. 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-survdnn

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-survdnn

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-survdnn

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: 3.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

READMEYes · 886 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Cites an R Journal article

Help pages: 18 (2 internal)
Examples that run: 0%9 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,468 · ~11/day · ~336/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

29630 days

93790 days

4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on111 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ielbadisy/survdnn ↗Account: ielbadisy

6Stars

1Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

251Commits

2Commit identities

deep-neural-networkssurvival-analysis

251 commits · Last activity 2026-09-19 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.0.2, ahead of CRAN 1.0.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 80
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-02 · 22026-07-28 · 6

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ielbadisy/survdnn 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 (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing survdnn adds 50 packages (26 with compiled code, 38 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, torch 1.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (13)

torchsurvivalstatsutilstibble dplyr purrr tidyr ggplot2methodsrsample cli glue

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

survalis

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Imad El Badisy

Author, Maintainer since 0.6.0 (2025)

Daniel Falbel

Contributor · added in 1.0.0

Releases (6)

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1.0.0Latest
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-07-22
Total releases: 6 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 42 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("survdnn")

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

It points to 10.32614/rj-2026-008.

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 survdnn version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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