sdcMicro

5.8.2

Statistical Disclosure Control Methods for Anonymization of Data and Risk Estimation

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17.9Kdownloads / year

13.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Matthias TemplFirst published 2007-05-2965 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Data from statistical agencies and other institutions are mostly confidential. This package, introduced in Templ, Kowarik and Meindl (2017) doi:10.18637/jss.v067.i04, can be used for the generation of anonymized (micro)data, i.e. for the creation of public- and scientific-use files. The theoretical basis for the methods implemented can be found in Templ (2017) doi:10.1007/978-3-319-50272-4. Various risk estimation and anonymization methods are included. Note that the package includes a graphical user interface published in Meindl and Templ (2019) doi:10.3390/a12090191 that allows to use various methods of this package.

Install

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

install.packages("sdcMicro", 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("sdcTools/sdcMicro")

Development version from sdcTools/sdcMicro. 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-sdcmicro

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-sdcMicro

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-sdcMicro

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 5.8 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.30

13.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMEYes · 33 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 91%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 98%
References docs: 32%

Downloads

17.9K

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Rank #3,505 · ~49/day · ~1.5K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ sdctools/sdcmicro

92Stars

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12Open issues

1Open PRs

12Releases

1,503Commits

25Contributors

License GPL-2.0 · 1,503 commits · Last activity 2026-07-17 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

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Continuous integration (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

24 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (25)

utilsstatsgraphicscar carData rmarkdown knitr data.table xtable robustbaseclusterMASSe1071toolsRcppmethodsggplot2 shiny haven rhandsontable DT prettydoc VIM httr jsonlite

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (6)

clue laekenparalleltestthat pdftools yaml

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Reverse dependencies

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riskutility

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (7)

Maintainer (1)

Matthias Templ

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.2.0

Authors (4)

Matthias Templ

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.2.0

Johannes Gussenbauer

Author · added in 5.7.1

Alexander Kowarik

Author · added in 3.0.0

Bernhard Meindl

Author · added in 3.0.0

Organisation For Economic Co-Operation And Development

Pascal Heus

Statistics Netherlands

Listed in earlier versions (3)

Matthias Templ (Copyright: Statistics Austria)

no longer listed · 1.0 to 2.1.0

Berhard Meindl

no longer listed · 2.5.8

Bernd Prantner

no longer listed · 3.1.0 to 3.1.1

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Package metadata

First published: 2007-05-29
Total releases: 65 / 19 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 243 KB / 9 files
Download size: 905 KB
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