rolescry: Name-Blind Variable-Role Detection by Data Signature
Deterministic, name-blind detection of variable roles (group,
outcome, survival or duration time and event, coupled binary-continuous
pairs, calendar time index, paired and agreement measurements, repeated
measures and panels, scale and rating items, subject or entity identifier,
covariate) in tabular data from any domain – clinical, financial, social,
experimental. Roles are assigned from each column's information-theoretic signature
– Shannon entropy, normalized mutual information, and distributional shape
– rather than from column names, so renaming columns to 'col_1', 'col_2',
... does not change the result ("Data inspice, non nomen"). An optional,
capped name-based hint and automatic header-row detection are also provided.
No large language models and no external data transmission. Extracted from
the 'MDStatR' biostatistics engine; see Boynukara (2026)
<doi:10.5281/zenodo.20707791>.
| Version: |
0.3.0 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 4.0.0) |
| Imports: |
stats, utils |
| Suggests: |
moments, diptest, stringdist, readxl, openxlsx, haven, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, spelling |
| Published: |
2026-10-21 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.rolescry |
| Author: |
Can Boynukara 
[aut, cre, cph] |
| Maintainer: |
Can Boynukara <canboynukara1 at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/canboynukara/rolescry/issues |
| License: |
Apache License (== 2.0) |
| URL: |
https://github.com/canboynukara/rolescry |
| NeedsCompilation: |
no |
| Language: |
en-US |
| Citation: |
rolescry citation info |
| Materials: |
README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
rolescry results |
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