howManyImputations

0.2.5

Calculate How many Imputations are Needed for Multiple Imputation

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3.9Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Josh ErricksonFirst published 2022-04-064 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

When performing multiple imputations, while 5-10 imputations are sufficient for obtaining point estimates, a larger number of imputations are needed for proper standard error estimates. This package allows you to calculate how many imputations are needed, following the work of von Hippel (2020) doi:10.1177/0049124117747303.

Install

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

install.packages("howManyImputations", 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("josherrickson/howManyImputations")

Development version from josherrickson/howManyImputations. 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-howmanyimputations

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-howManyImputations

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.6 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Check history

OK2026-06-09
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ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-02
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-25
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Repository

GitHub ↗ josherrickson/howmanyimputations

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Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-04-06
Total releases: 4 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 4.3 KB
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