RDSTools is an R package developed to assist 1) decision making processes for coupon counts and overall sample sizes with minimal assumptions; 2) handling RDS data to reflect the recruitment information (e.g., linking recruiters and recruits, recruitment waves) and to treat missingness of degrees; 3) various estimation methods beyond descriptive statistics with several variance estimation options; and 4) estimation of true network sizes. Note that #4 requires a UNIX operating system whereas the rest do not.
Steps to install the package:
- Download RDSTools_0.1.0.tar.gz
- Run this command to install the package from your working directory –
install.packages(“path/to/RDSTools_0.1.0.tar.gz”, repos = NULL, type = “source”) - RDSTools relies on some functions from ‘survey’ package, make sure to install the recent version of ‘survey’ package directly from R.
For more instructions how to run the functions from RDSTools package please see short_tutorial_code.R