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radiatR vs statpsych
A side-by-side editorial comparison of radiatR and statpsych — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Shared themes:r-package
radiatR vs statpsych: at a glance
What is radiatR?
A circular-statistics toolkit for animal movement, shipped and then tightened in three weeks.
radiatR reads movement trajectories, plots them on circular axes, computes kinematics such as speed and path sinuosity, and runs the circular statistics that go with them, including tests of mean direction, symmetry and unimodality. It arrived as a first public release on 9 July 2026 with an accompanying Shiny app, and has had two releases since at roughly weekly intervals. The 0.1.x line is still setting its boundaries: 0.1.2 removes a loader dialect and makes previously silent data problems into errors.
What is statpsych?
A statistics catalogue for psychology that grows by the release and rarely changes shape.
statpsych supplies confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, power calculations and sample-size planning for the designs psychology researchers actually run, exposed as several hundred small named functions rather than a modelling framework. Version 2.0.0 adds eight functions across logistic model performance, Kendall tau-a intervals and sample sizes, intraclass correlation testing, Geary kurtosis and Mann-Whitney power, and retires three names in favour of generalised replacements. The major version number reflects those removals rather than a change in how the package is used.
radiatR vs statpsych: editorial side-by-side
radiatR
2.5INFRA · APIS
A circular-statistics toolkit for animal movement, shipped and then tightened in three weeks.
◆ Current state
radiatR reads movement trajectories, plots them on circular axes, computes kinematics such as speed and path sinuosity, and runs the circular statistics that go with them, including tests of mean direction, symmetry and unimodality. It arrived as a first public release on 9 July 2026 with an accompanying Shiny app, and has had two releases since at roughly weekly intervals. The 0.1.x line is still setting its boundaries: 0.1.2 removes a loader dialect and makes previously silent data problems into errors.
◆ Where it's heading
Three releases in twelve days show a package hardening in public rather than accreting features. The direction of travel is toward refusing bad input instead of quietly working around it: non-finite coordinate rows now error by default rather than being dropped silently, combining Tracks objects rejects colliding trajectory ids and conflicting calibration metadata instead of merging them and discarding one side, and the Shiny app clears prior state before reading a new upload. The statistical surface is growing in parallel, but within the scope the first release already claimed.
◆ Prediction
Expect the remaining goodness-of-fit gap the notes name explicitly, Jones-Pewsey, to be filled in a later release, and the error-on-bad-input treatment to reach the parts of the loader it has not yet covered. A CRAN submission is the natural next step for a package this young, though nothing in these entries commits to one.
statpsych
0.0INFRA · APIS
A statistics catalogue for psychology that grows by the release and rarely changes shape.
◆ Current state
statpsych supplies confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, power calculations and sample-size planning for the designs psychology researchers actually run, exposed as several hundred small named functions rather than a modelling framework. Version 2.0.0 adds eight functions across logistic model performance, Kendall tau-a intervals and sample sizes, intraclass correlation testing, Geary kurtosis and Mann-Whitney power, and retires three names in favour of generalised replacements. The major version number reflects those removals rather than a change in how the package is used.
◆ Where it's heading
Every release in this window is the same shape: a list of new functions, occasionally a rename. The package grows by filling cells in a grid of estimand, design and inferential goal, and 2.0.0 is notable only for finally deleting the three names its generalised replacements had superseded. That makes it a reference library whose value is coverage and stability, not direction, and the entries give no sign of that changing.
◆ Prediction
Expect the accretion to continue along the same axes, with sample-size and power counterparts filled in for estimands that currently have interval functions but no planning ones. The 2.0.0 deletions suggest occasional consolidation passes when a generalised function makes older specific ones redundant.
Alternatives to radiatR and statpsych
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Recent activity from radiatR and statpsych
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 29d agoradiatRctrax loader dropped; bad coordinates now error by default
- 1mo agoradiatRWrapped-Cauchy and Pycke tests close two statistical gaps
- 1mo agostatpsychKendall tau, logistic fit measures added; three names retired
- 1mo agoradiatRFirst public release ⚡
- 7mo agostatpsychIntraclass correlation and diversity indices gain full coverage
- 1y agostatpsychstatpsych 1.8
- 2y agostatpsychCorrelation tests and finite-population corrections added
- 2y agostatpsychCoefficient of variation and 2x2 within-subjects effects
- 3y agostatpsychPower calculations added for means, proportions and correlations
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between radiatR and statpsych?
Both compete on the same themes — r-package — within Infra & APIs. radiatR 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 radiatR better than statpsych?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. radiatR 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 Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to radiatR?
Top radiatR alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "radiatR alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/radiatr for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to statpsych?
Top statpsych alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "statpsych alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/statpsych for the full list with editorial commentary on each.