heaping

0.2.0

Correction of Heaping on Individual Level

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Overview

About

Maintained by Matthias TemplFirst published 2026-02-092 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides methods for correcting heaping (digit preference) in survey data at the individual record level. Age heaping, where respondents disproportionately report ages ending in 0 or 5, is a common phenomenon that can distort demographic analyses. Unlike traditional smoothing methods that only correct aggregated statistics, this package corrects individual values by replacing a calculated proportion of heaped observations with draws from fitted truncated distributions (log-normal, normal, or uniform). Supports 5-year and 10-year heaping patterns, single heap correction, survey weights, and optional covariate-conditional (model-based) correction via quantile regression forests or linear models to preserve relationships. A multiple-imputation wrapper repeats the correction to propagate the added uncertainty into downstream inference.

Install

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

install.packages("heaping", 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("matthias-da/heaping")

Development version from matthias-da/heaping. 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-heaping

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

# 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-heaping

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

Health

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Slowest check: 2.8 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

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OK2026-03-10
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Repository

GitHub ↗ matthias-da/heaping

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License GPL-3.0 · Last activity 2026-07-13

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R >= 3.5.0

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Matthias Templ

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Matthias Templ

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Bernhard Meindl

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Package Timeline

2 releases. R releases are shown for context.

0.2.0Latest
2026-07-13 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0
2026-03-10
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-02-09
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 457 KB
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