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Sample Size Analysis for Psychological Networks and More

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A dormant sample-size package woke up in 2025 with parallel backends and a three-release DOI farce.

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◆Current state
powerly implements a simulation-based method for choosing sample sizes in psychological network models. It sat untouched from September 2022 until August 2025, then shipped five releases in two days. v1.10.0 is the substantive one: parabar parallel backends with progress tracking, validation restricted to specific sample sizes, and warnings when the user picks argument values the method cannot support.
◆Where it's heading
The reawakening tracks the underlying manuscript reaching publication — v1.9.0 is largely citation, DOI, and website work around a published paper, with CI and documentation debt cleared at the same time. Feature work resumed only after that housekeeping, and it points at usability rather than method: better feedback, better progress reporting, the ability to validate one sample size instead of a whole grid. Three of the five 2025 releases exist only to fix a DOI in the package documentation, one of them undoing the previous one.
◆Prediction
With the paper published and the parallel-backend request from issue #8 finally closed, further releases most likely continue the usability line — more guardrails on argument choice — rather than extending the statistical method itself.

◆Recent moves

  1. 11mo ago

    Parallel backends with progress tracking, plus targeted validation

    The only feature release in the reawakening. parabar backends bring progress tracking to what is an inherently slow simulation, closing a request open since issue #8; validate() gains a sample argument so users can check one size rather than a full grid; and the package now warns when argument choices or unmet validation targets should give the user pause.

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  2. 11mo ago

    DOI markup restored in package documentation

    The third DOI fix in 90 minutes, restoring the \doi{} call that the previous release had removed. The maintainer's own note acknowledges the absurdity. No functional change.

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  3. 11mo ago

    DOI markup removed from package documentation

    Removes the \doi{} call from the package documentation to clear a CRAN note — a change reversed again 30 minutes later. Documentation only.

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  4. 11mo ago

    Incorrect DOI corrected in package documentation

    Fixes an incorrect DOI in the package documentation, the first of three consecutive releases chasing the same reference. Part of the post-publication cleanup around the method's manuscript.

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  5. 11mo ago

    Three-year gap closed with citation refresh and an osqp dependency drop

    The release that ends a three-year silence, and it is almost entirely paperwork: citations and references pointed at the now-published manuscript, licences, CI workflows, and website content refreshed. The one user-facing change is dropping the osqp dependency, trimming what an install pulls in.

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  6. 3y ago

    Invalid HTML nesting removed from function documentation

    Removes invalid HTML nesting from documented functions to satisfy checks. The last release before the package went quiet for three years.

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