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A side-by-side editorial comparison of aniread and tidycmprsk — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
aniread stops asking you to know which tracker wrote the file
aniread is the reader package of the animovement suite, importing output from pose-estimation, centroid and behavioural-scoring tools into aniframe objects. Through 0.5.x the work was per-reader: get_supported_sources() exposed the format list programmatically, read_boris() added behavioural events, and Octron and BORIS each got targeted fixes. 0.6.0 changes the shape of the interface itself — read_dataset() takes any supported file through one entry point and detect_source() works out which software wrote it by inspecting contents, not just the suffix.
Competing-risks modelling that now moves only when its neighbours do.
tidycmprsk wraps competing risks regression and cumulative incidence estimation in tidy-style output, so results slot into gtsummary tables and ggsurvfit plots. The last two releases are small: 1.1.2 sorts tidy.tidycuminc() output by stratum, 1.1.1 is an HTML5 documentation update for CRAN. The substantive work in the window is 1.1.0, which reorganised the gtsummary relationship.
aniread is the reader package of the animovement suite, importing output from pose-estimation, centroid and behavioural-scoring tools into aniframe objects. Through 0.5.x the work was per-reader: get_supported_sources() exposed the format list programmatically, read_boris() added behavioural events, and Octron and BORIS each got targeted fixes. 0.6.0 changes the shape of the interface itself — read_dataset() takes any supported file through one entry point and detect_source() works out which software wrote it by inspecting contents, not just the suffix.
The package is moving from a set of named readers to a dispatcher with the readers behind it, and the hard part is being handled rather than hidden: twelve sources emit .csv, so detection narrows by suffix then inspects content, and DeepLabCut and LightningPose files are structurally identical so it returns the combined 'deeplabcut/lightningpose' rather than guessing wrong. The honesty extends to gaps — optional-dependency detectors are skipped when the package is absent and the error names what was skipped, and SLEAP's csv suffix was withdrawn because auto-detection would have routed files into a reader that cannot read them. Alongside this, read_trackball() was substantially repaired for real two-sensor Bonsai captures, where alignment, clocks, corrupt rows and gap filling were each independently wrong.
Expect the withdrawn SLEAP csv suffix to return once read_sleap() gains support, since the changelog explicitly parks it against issue #87. Further detectors are the natural next increment, and the sensor-local-clock warning class suggests trackball alignment is not finished.
tidycmprsk wraps competing risks regression and cumulative incidence estimation in tidy-style output, so results slot into gtsummary tables and ggsurvfit plots. The last two releases are small: 1.1.2 sorts tidy.tidycuminc() output by stratum, 1.1.1 is an HTML5 documentation update for CRAN. The substantive work in the window is 1.1.0, which reorganised the gtsummary relationship.
The package has spent its releases handing responsibilities to neighbouring packages rather than growing its own surface. Plotting was deprecated then made defunct in favour of ggsurvfit::ggcuminc(), and 1.1.0 moved the regression table methods so that gtsummary could drop tidycmprsk as a dependency. What remains is the estimation core plus the S3 methods that let other packages consume it, which is a deliberate narrowing.
Expect releases to continue tracking changes in gtsummary and the broader tidy survival stack rather than adding estimation features.
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Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. aniread is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 3.8 vs 0.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. aniread is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 3.8 vs 0.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
Top aniread alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "aniread alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/aniread for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
Top tidycmprsk alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "tidycmprsk alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/tidycmprsk for the full list with editorial commentary on each.