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r-ledger vs rstatix

A side-by-side editorial comparison of r-ledger and rstatix — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.

r-ledger vs rstatix: at a glance

Featurer-ledgerrstatix
SectorAnalyticsAnalytics
Velocity score0.02.5
Sparks · 30d00
Top themesplain-text-accounting, r-package, beancount, hledgerstatistics, r, effect sizes, confidence intervals
Last editorial update42m ago3h ago
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What is r-ledger?

ledger adds a Rust toolchain fallback, so beancount imports work whether or not the Python tooling is installed.

An R package that imports plain-text accounting files — ledger, hledger and beancount — into data frames. Releases are sparse and driven almost entirely by changes in the external command-line tools it shells out to: date format shifts, decimal mark handling, binaries being removed from upstream projects. The last two releases show more activity than the several years preceding them.

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What is rstatix?

rstatix hit 1.0 by unrounding every p-value it has ever returned

rstatix is the pipe-friendly test wrapper behind most ggpubr annotation workflows — t-tests, Wilcoxon, ANOVA, post-hoc comparisons, effect sizes, all returning tidy data frames. After three quiet years of CRAN-compat patching, it shipped 1.0.0 and 1.1.0 three weeks apart in mid-2026. Both releases push in the same direction: interval estimates and full-precision output for numbers the package previously rounded or omitted.

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r-ledger vs rstatix: editorial side-by-side

R
r-ledger
ANALYTICS
0.0

ledger adds a Rust toolchain fallback, so beancount imports work whether or not the Python tooling is installed.

◆ Current state

An R package that imports plain-text accounting files — ledger, hledger and beancount — into data frames. Releases are sparse and driven almost entirely by changes in the external command-line tools it shells out to: date format shifts, decimal mark handling, binaries being removed from upstream projects. The last two releases show more activity than the several years preceding them.

◆ Where it's heading

The package's job is absorbing churn in an ecosystem it does not control, and the recent releases show that ecosystem fragmenting and then being backfilled. bean-report disappeared from beancount in 2020 and its toolchains were finally deprecated in v2.0.13; v2.1.1 responds to the arrival of rustledger by adding rledger and bean-query as explicit toolchain choices and making the beancount path fall back to rledger when bean-query is absent. The other steady thread is column parity — code, id and comment columns arriving one at a time across the three register functions, so that whichever toolchain a user has produces comparable output.

◆ Prediction

Expect the remaining deprecated toolchains to be removed outright, and further column-parity work so the rledger path returns the same fields as the established ones.

R
rstatix
ANALYTICS
2.5

rstatix hit 1.0 by unrounding every p-value it has ever returned

◆ Current state

rstatix is the pipe-friendly test wrapper behind most ggpubr annotation workflows — t-tests, Wilcoxon, ANOVA, post-hoc comparisons, effect sizes, all returning tidy data frames. After three quiet years of CRAN-compat patching, it shipped 1.0.0 and 1.1.0 three weeks apart in mid-2026. Both releases push in the same direction: interval estimates and full-precision output for numbers the package previously rounded or omitted.

◆ Where it's heading

The work is about matching what dedicated effect-size packages give you without taking on their dependencies. Confidence intervals for partial eta squared and for Cohen's d are both computed in base R from noncentral distributions and both check against effectsize; compact letter displays are computed in base R against multcompView. The pattern is deliberate — reproduce the reference implementation, add no imports. Alongside that, the package has started correcting statistical hygiene it got wrong for years, most visibly by no longer rounding p-values before adjusting them.

◆ Prediction

The analytic-interval machinery now exists for eta squared and Cohen's d; the untouched effect sizes in the package — eta squared for nonparametric tests, Cramer's V, rank-biserial correlation — are the obvious next targets for the same base-R noncentral treatment.

Alternatives to r-ledger and rstatix

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 r-ledger or rstatix.

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Recent activity from r-ledger and rstatix

Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.

  1. 22d agorstatixrstatix 1.1.0 gives Cohen's d a deterministic confidence interval
  2. 1mo agorstatixrstatix 1.0.0 stops rounding p-values before adjusting them
  3. 2mo agor-ledgerrustledger supported as a beancount toolchain, with automatic fallback
  4. 4mo agor-ledgerbean-report toolchains deprecated; transaction code column imported
  5. 9mo agorstatixrstatix 0.7.3
  6. 2y agor-ledgerTransaction id column for beancount and hledger; date coercion aligned
  7. 3y agorstatixrstatix 0.7.2
  8. 3y agorstatixrstatix 0.7.1
  9. 4y agor-ledgerrio moved from Imports to Suggests
  10. 5y agorstatixrstatix 0.7.0
  11. 6y agor-ledgerhledger date import fixed for newer hledger versions
  12. 6y agor-ledgerComma decimal marks and commodity prefixes parse correctly

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between r-ledger and rstatix?

They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. rstatix is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 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 r-ledger better than rstatix?

Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. rstatix is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 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 Analytics products to evaluate alongside.

What are the best alternatives to r-ledger?

Top r-ledger alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "r-ledger alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/ledger for the full list with editorial commentary on each.

What are the best alternatives to rstatix?

Top rstatix alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "rstatix alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/rstatix for the full list with editorial commentary on each.