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Comparison · Infra & APIs
ipeaplot vs PowerTOST
A side-by-side editorial comparison of ipeaplot and PowerTOST — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
ipeaplot vs PowerTOST: at a glance
What is ipeaplot?
An institutional chart theme whose recent releases are all vignette repair.
ipeaplot supplies Ipea's house style to ggplot2 — theme_ipea(), matching colour and fill scales, and export helpers that write the formats the institute's publications need. The feature line has been quiet since October, when save_ipeaplot() consolidated the format-specific savers. Both July releases exist to get the package building again, not to change it.
What is PowerTOST?
A bioequivalence sample-size workhorse whose news is which regulator it now covers
PowerTOST computes power and sample size for bioequivalence and its changelog reads as a record of regulatory divergence more than statistical development. Version 1.5-3 added the Gulf Co-operation Council as a regulator setting; 1.5-4 and 1.5-6 stripped 'FDA' out of the narrow-therapeutic-index function names once China's CDE began requiring the same evaluation. The most recent release, 1.5-7, is a single fix to how nvec() splits a total sample size across sequences.
ipeaplot vs PowerTOST: editorial side-by-side
ipeaplot
0.0INFRA · APIS
An institutional chart theme whose recent releases are all vignette repair.
◆ Current state
ipeaplot supplies Ipea's house style to ggplot2 — theme_ipea(), matching colour and fill scales, and export helpers that write the formats the institute's publications need. The feature line has been quiet since October, when save_ipeaplot() consolidated the format-specific savers. Both July releases exist to get the package building again, not to change it.
◆ Where it's heading
The package has been converging on a smaller, more uniform surface: separate save_eps() and save_pdf() helpers gave way to one save_ipeaplot() covering vector and raster formats with sensible defaults, and the Frutiger font dependency was dropped for a default sans-serif. What consumes releases now is downstream breakage — two consecutive patches in ten days, the second traced to geobr, both in vignettes rather than package code.
◆ Prediction
The palette line has grown one colour set at a time and is the most likely place for the next addition, but nothing in these entries commits to it. On current evidence the near term is more compatibility patching against the geobr and ggplot2 packages the vignettes depend on.
PowerTOST
0.0INFRA · APIS
A bioequivalence sample-size workhorse whose news is which regulator it now covers
◆ Current state
PowerTOST computes power and sample size for bioequivalence and its changelog reads as a record of regulatory divergence more than statistical development. Version 1.5-3 added the Gulf Co-operation Council as a regulator setting; 1.5-4 and 1.5-6 stripped 'FDA' out of the narrow-therapeutic-index function names once China's CDE began requiring the same evaluation. The most recent release, 1.5-7, is a single fix to how nvec() splits a total sample size across sequences.
◆ Where it's heading
The package is in long maintenance with a widening regulatory surface: the statistical methods are settled, and releases arrive when an agency publishes a framework that can be expressed as a settings variant of an existing method. Function naming has been deliberately decoupled from any single agency, with the deprecated FDA-suffixed aliases carried for years before removal. Cadence has slowed to roughly one release every eighteen months.
◆ Prediction
The next release is most likely another regulator setting or a small fix; on the deprecation notice already given, the power.NTIDFDA()-style aliases are the obvious removal candidate.
Alternatives to ipeaplot and PowerTOST
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 ipeaplot or PowerTOST.
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surveycore
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PEIMAN2
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prospectr
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Recent activity from ipeaplot and PowerTOST
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1mo agoipeaplotVignette fix for geobr breakage
- 1mo agoipeaplotPatch for a vignette build error
- 10mo agoipeaplotsave_ipeaplot() unifies vector and raster export
- 10mo agoPowerTOSTFix for splitting total sample size across sequences
- 1y agoipeaplotPink palette added; axis break and categorical Y-axis fixes
- 1y agoipeaplotFrutiger dropped for a default sans-serif; save_pdf() added
- 2y agoipeaplottheme_ipea, colour and fill scales, save_eps on CRAN
- 2y agoPowerTOSTNTID functions renamed off the FDA acronym; GCC guidance in vignettes
- 4y agoPowerTOSTpower.NTID() aliases added; FDA-suffixed names deprecated
- 5y agoPowerTOSTGulf Co-operation Council added as a regulator setting
- 5y agoPowerTOSTMaintenance release with vignette and documentation clarifications
- 5y agoPowerTOSTstringsAsFactors fix for older R in a vignette example
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between ipeaplot and PowerTOST?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. ipeaplot and PowerTOST 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 ipeaplot better than PowerTOST?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. ipeaplot and PowerTOST 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 Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to ipeaplot?
Top ipeaplot alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "ipeaplot alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/ipeaplot for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to PowerTOST?
Top PowerTOST alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "PowerTOST alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/powertost for the full list with editorial commentary on each.