tidytlg
A tables-listings-graphs package that reached CRAN and then went quiet.
Comparison · Analytics
excluder vs rlistings
A side-by-side editorial comparison of excluder and rlistings — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Shared themes:r-package
excluder vs rlistings: at a glance
What is excluder?
A Qualtrics data-cleaning package that has been in maintenance mode since its CRAN acceptance.
excluder marks, checks, and excludes online-survey rows that fail quality criteria — duplicate responses, suspicious IP or geolocation, screen resolution, completion duration, preview rows. The mark_*/check_*/exclude_* verb trio and the column-renaming helpers are the whole public surface. Recent releases are dependency chasing and test robustness rather than new exclusion criteria.
What is rlistings?
Clinical listings that keep inheriting their hardest problem — pagination — from the layer below.
rlistings renders clinical-trial subject listings and paginates them for regulatory output, sitting alongside rtables on the shared formatters engine. The releases in this window are dominated by pagination correctness: repeated key columns across pages, splitting by a variable, ordered-factor handling, column gaps, and font metrics. Development is a large rotating contributor set inside the insightsengineering organisation.
excluder vs rlistings: editorial side-by-side
excluder
0.0ANALYTICS
A Qualtrics data-cleaning package that has been in maintenance mode since its CRAN acceptance.
◆ Current state
excluder marks, checks, and excludes online-survey rows that fail quality criteria — duplicate responses, suspicious IP or geolocation, screen resolution, completion duration, preview rows. The mark_*/check_*/exclude_* verb trio and the column-renaming helpers are the whole public surface. Recent releases are dependency chasing and test robustness rather than new exclusion criteria.
◆ Where it's heading
The package is stable and its maintenance load comes from things it does not control: the {iptools} package leaving CRAN, {tidyselect} deprecating the .data pronoun, IP-geolocation tests breaking when the underlying address data shifts. Much of that work is about staying installable, not about better exclusions. Note that several of these entries were backfilled into the feed within the same two-minute window and are not in version order.
◆ Prediction
The next release will most likely be another dependency or CRAN-check response rather than a new exclusion criterion, following the pattern of the last three.
rlistings
0.0ANALYTICS
Clinical listings that keep inheriting their hardest problem — pagination — from the layer below.
◆ Current state
rlistings renders clinical-trial subject listings and paginates them for regulatory output, sitting alongside rtables on the shared formatters engine. The releases in this window are dominated by pagination correctness: repeated key columns across pages, splitting by a variable, ordered-factor handling, column gaps, and font metrics. Development is a large rotating contributor set inside the insightsengineering organisation.
◆ Where it's heading
The package is progressively delegating pagination to formatters rather than implementing it — paginate_listing() was refactored to call formatters' paginate_to_mpfs() directly, and truetype font support arrived through a new formatters API. That reduces duplicated logic but ties the package's page-break behaviour to a dependency it shares with rtables. Feature work beyond pagination is thin: better error messages for unsupported column classes, a cheatsheet.
◆ Prediction
Expect pagination fidelity to remain the focus, with changes arriving as formatters exposes more of its layout machinery rather than as rlistings-native features.
Alternatives to excluder and rlistings
Other Analytics 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 excluder or rlistings.
Tplyr
Tplyr made clinical summary tables explain where every number came from.
hoardr
A cache-directory helper that has shipped nothing but CRAN-triggered patches for seven years.
gigs
gigs redesigned its whole conversion API for rOpenSci, then spent three releases getting the docs to build.
riem
A weather-data client that keeps rewriting its HTTP layer while slowly tightening its API.
datasetjson
datasetjson rebuilt its object model to track the CDISC Dataset-JSON 1.1 schema.
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Recent activity from excluder and rlistings
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1y agoexcluderInternet-dependent tests and examples made conditional
- 1y agorlistingsError and message handling for difftime and zero-row listings
- 1y agorlistingsTrueType font support and col_gap in pagination
- 2y agorlistingssplit_into_pages_by_var() and pagination moved onto formatters
- 2y agoexcluderqualtrics_fetch2 dataset and tidyselect deprecation fixes
- 3y agoexcluderCRAN acceptance and graceful IP-lookup failure
- 3y agoexcluderdplyr 1.0.8 across()/is.na() compatibility fix
- 3y agoexcluderuse_labels(), rename_columns(), and orientation-agnostic resolution
- 3y agoexcluderSwaps iptools for ipaddress
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between excluder and rlistings?
Both compete on the same themes — r-package — within Analytics. excluder and rlistings are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is excluder better than rlistings?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. excluder and rlistings are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to excluder?
Top excluder alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "excluder alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/excluder for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to rlistings?
Top rlistings alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "rlistings alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/rlistings for the full list with editorial commentary on each.