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Comparison · Infra & APIs
crane vs EDAForge
A side-by-side editorial comparison of crane and EDAForge — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
crane vs EDAForge: at a glance
What is crane?
Crane is turning into the table-and-plot layer for Roche's clinical output stack.
Crane publishes release candidates rather than finals, and the whole of 0.3.2 is carried by a single rc2 body — its two sibling tags are one-line styling commits, one of them tagged with an unsubstituted vX.Y.Z placeholder. The rc2 notes run to dozens of additions across regression tables, line plots and hierarchical rate tables.
What is EDAForge?
EDAForge is a data-quality auditor renamed mid-flight, still finding its CRAN footing.
EDAForge's release feed shows a package changing identity between its first two tags. The v0.1.0 notes describe DataAudit, a data-quality auditing package built around audit_data(), reusable audit_rules() and audit_score(), with install instructions still pointing at vinodhpmd/DataAudit, while the repository now serves EDAForge. Only three tags exist, one of which is a bare compare link with no notes, and the most recent is a CRAN-policy cleanup rather than feature work.
crane vs EDAForge: editorial side-by-side
crane
0.0INFRA · APIS
Crane is turning into the table-and-plot layer for Roche's clinical output stack.
◆ Current state
Crane publishes release candidates rather than finals, and the whole of 0.3.2 is carried by a single rc2 body — its two sibling tags are one-line styling commits, one of them tagged with an unsubstituted vX.Y.Z placeholder. The rc2 notes run to dozens of additions across regression tables, line plots and hierarchical rate tables.
◆ Where it's heading
The package is moving from plotting helpers to a full analysis-output layer: mixed models for repeated measures, pairwise Cox results, risk-management-plan tables and adverse-event incidence rates all arrive in one cycle, and the annotation machinery underneath was rebuilt for reliable table-to-axis alignment. Defaults are being pulled toward SAS and rtables output — the log-rank test now uses survival::survdiff instead of coin, and survfit confidence intervals default to plain rather than log.
◆ Prediction
Expect a 0.3.2 final close behind rc2, and the deprecated g_lineplot() family to be removed once gg_lineplot() and annotate_gg() have settled.
EDAForge
5.0INFRA · APIS
EDAForge is a data-quality auditor renamed mid-flight, still finding its CRAN footing.
◆ Current state
EDAForge's release feed shows a package changing identity between its first two tags. The v0.1.0 notes describe DataAudit, a data-quality auditing package built around audit_data(), reusable audit_rules() and audit_score(), with install instructions still pointing at vinodhpmd/DataAudit, while the repository now serves EDAForge. Only three tags exist, one of which is a bare compare link with no notes, and the most recent is a CRAN-policy cleanup rather than feature work.
◆ Where it's heading
The substance so far is all in the DataAudit-named 0.1.0: more than a dozen check families spanning missing values, duplicates, ranges, patterns, dependencies and grouped sequences, wrapped in a structured report object with print and summary methods. The 0.1.1 that follows removes a default output path, moves examples to tempdir() and adds an introductory vignette, which is the standard shape of a package being made acceptable to CRAN. The public identity is currently ahead of the release notes, so a reader arriving at the feed cannot tell from it what EDAForge does.
◆ Prediction
Expect the next tag to align the notes with the EDAForge name and add exploratory-analysis functions alongside the auditing core; the compliance pass in 0.1.1 points at a CRAN submission as the near-term goal.
Alternatives to crane and EDAForge
Other Infra & APIs products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either crane or EDAForge.
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contagionchannels
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tidyaudit
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Recent activity from crane and EDAForge
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 18d agoEDAForgeCRAN-policy pass: no default write path, intro vignette
- 22d agoEDAForgeInitial release under the package's former name, DataAudit
- 27d agoEDAForgeEDAForge v0.1.0
- 2mo agocraneMMRM, Cox and incidence-rate tables land in one release ⚡
- 2mo agocraneExample styling and runtime cleanup
- 2mo agocranePlaceholder release tag from the same styling commit
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between crane and EDAForge?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. EDAForge is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 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.
Is crane better than EDAForge?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. EDAForge is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to crane?
Top crane alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "crane alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/crane for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to EDAForge?
Top EDAForge alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "EDAForge alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/edaforge for the full list with editorial commentary on each.