R Observatory: Metrics for Families version 2.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Families

2.0.2

Kinship Ties in (Virtual) Multi-Generation Populations

0packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Frans WillekensFirst published 2022-07-084 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Tools to study lineages, grandparenthood, loss of close relatives, kinship networks and other topics in multi-generation populations.

Install

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

install.packages("Families", 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("willekens/Families")

Development version from willekens/Families. 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-families

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-Families

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-Families

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.0 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,675 · ~7/day · ~218/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ willekens/families

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46Commits

1Contributors

demographyfamilieskinshipsimulation

License GPL-3.0 · 46 commits · Last activity 2022-08-03

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Checks run against github.com/willekens/families on 2026-08-03.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.3.0

Imports (4)

msm reshape ggplot2 rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

knitr rmarkdown lubridate xml2 plyr VirtualPop

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Frans Willekens

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Frans Willekens

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

4 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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2022-07-08
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-07-08
Total releases: 4 / 4 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.3.0
Bundled data: 153 KB / 1 file
Download size: 403 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("Families")

Format

Willekens, F. (2024). Families: Kinship Ties in (Virtual) Multi-Generation Populations (Version 2.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.Families

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Families version 2.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-09. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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