R Observatory: Metrics for synMicrodata version 2.1.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

synMicrodata

2.1.3Package record

Synthetic Microdata Generator

0packages depend

3.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Juhee LeeCRAN page ↗

This tool fits a non-parametric Bayesian model called a "hierarchically coupled mixture model with local dependence (HCMM-LD)" to the original microdata in order to generate synthetic microdata for privacy protection. The non-parametric feature of the adopted model is useful for capturing the joint distribution of the original input data in a highly flexible manner, leading to the generation of synthetic data whose distributional features are similar to that of the input data. The package allows the original input data to have missing values and impute them with the posterior predictive distribution, so no missing values exist in the synthetic data output. The method builds on the work of Murray and Reiter (2016) doi:10.1080/01621459.2016.1174132.

Install

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

install.packages("synMicrodata", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-synmicrodata

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-synMicrodata

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-synMicrodata

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: 3.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.1.3

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 7
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 29%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,128 · ~10/day · ~306/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30630 days

77890 days

3.7K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing synMicrodata adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 2.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppArmadillo 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

methodsstatsgraphicsutilsRcpp

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Juhee Lee

Author, Maintainer since 2.1.1 (2025)

Hang J. Kim

Author

Young-Min Kim

Author

Jared Murray

Author · added in 2.0.0

Previously maintained by Hang J. Kim (1.0.0 to 2.1.0).

Releases (6)

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Package metadata

First published: 2023-02-06
Total releases: 6 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 19 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("synMicrodata")

Format

Lee, J., Kim, H. J., Kim, Y., & Murray, J. (2025). synMicrodata: Synthetic Microdata Generator (Version 2.1.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.synMicrodata

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 synMicrodata version 2.1.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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