simstudy

0.9.2

Simulation of Study Data

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Overview

About

Maintained by Keith GoldfeldFirst published 2016-06-2130 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Simulates data sets in order to explore modeling techniques or better understand data generating processes. The user specifies a set of relationships between covariates, and generates data based on these specifications. The final data sets can represent data from randomized control trials, repeated measure (longitudinal) designs, and cluster randomized trials. Missingness can be generated using various mechanisms (MCAR, MAR, NMAR).

Install

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

install.packages("simstudy", 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("kgoldfeld/simstudy")

Development version from kgoldfeld/simstudy. 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-simstudy

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-simstudy

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

Health

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Repository

GitHub ↗ kgoldfeld/simstudy

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License GPL-3.0 · 906 commits · Last activity 2026-06-25 · 0% stars, 30d

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cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

31 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (8)

data.table gluemethodsmvnfast Rcpp backports fastglm pbv

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Rcpp pbv fastglm

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People & History

People (2)

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Keith Goldfeld

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Authors (2)

Keith Goldfeld

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Jacob Wujciak-Jens

Author · added in 0.2.0

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-06-21
Total releases: 30 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 1.3 MB
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