heaping: Correction of Heaping on Individual Level

Provides methods for correcting heaping (digit preference) in survey data at the individual record level. Age heaping, where respondents disproportionately report ages ending in 0 or 5, is a common phenomenon that can distort demographic analyses. Unlike traditional smoothing methods that only correct aggregated statistics, this package corrects individual values by replacing a calculated proportion of heaped observations with draws from fitted truncated distributions (log-normal, normal, or uniform). Supports 5-year and 10-year heaping patterns, single heap correction, and optional model-based adjustment to preserve covariate relationships.

Version:	0.1.0
Depends:	R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports:	fitdistrplus, EnvStats, stats
Suggests:	VIM, ranger, data.table, ggplot2, simPop, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown
Published:	2026-02-09
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.heaping (may not be active yet)
Author:	Matthias Templ [aut, cre], Bernhard Meindl [ctb]
Maintainer:	Matthias Templ <matthias.templ at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/matthias-da/heaping/issues
License:	GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
URL:	https://github.com/matthias-da/heaping
NeedsCompilation:	no
CRAN checks:	heaping results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	heaping.html , heaping.pdf
Vignettes:	Introduction to the heaping Package (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	heaping_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): heaping_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): heaping_0.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): heaping_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): heaping_0.1.0.tgz

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