R Observatory: Metrics for BayesMoFo version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

BayesMoFo needs insight, which CRAN will archive unless its check problems are fixed by Nov 14.

BayesMoFo

0.2.0Package record

Bayesian Mortality Forecasting

0packages depend

6.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jackie Siaw Tze WongCRAN page ↗

Carry out Bayesian estimation and forecasting for a variety of stochastic mortality models using vague prior distributions. Models supported include numerous well-established approaches introduced in the actuarial and demographic literature, such as the Lee-Carter (1992) doi:10.1080/01621459.1992.10475265, the Cairns-Blake-Dowd (2009) doi:10.1080/10920277.2009.10597538, the Li-Lee (2005) doi:10.1353/dem.2005.0021, and the Plat (2009) doi:10.1016/j.insmatheco.2009.08.006 models. The package is designed to analyse stratified mortality data structured as a 3-dimensional array of dimensions p × A × T (strata × age × year). Stratification can represent factors such as cause of death, country, deprivation level, sex, geographic region, insurance product, marital status, socioeconomic group, or smoking behavior. While the primary focus is on analysing stratified data (p > 1), the package can also handle mortality data that are not stratified (p = 1), including 'demogdata' and 'StMoMoData' objects. Model selection via the Deviance Information Criterion (DIC) is supported.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("BayesMoFo", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-bayesmofo

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-BayesMoFo

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-BayesMoFo

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 7.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

Release 0.2.0 has not been analysed yet.

READMEYes · 278 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 36includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 71%25 run in a plain check · 10 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 53%

How these are measured

Downloads

6.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,021 · ~17/day · ~523/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

43830 days

1.2K90 days

6.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on75 r2u44 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing BayesMoFo adds 103 packages (50 with compiled code, 67 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (7)

rjags insight coda tidyverse dplyr magrittr rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependencies facing archival

CRAN will archive these unless their check problems are fixed by the date shown. This package needs each one to install.

insightfix by Nov 14

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Jackie Siaw Tze Wong

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2025)

Alex Diana

Contributor

Aniketh Pittea

Contributor

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Wong

no longer listed · 0.1.0

Releases (2)

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0.2.0Latest
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2026-10-26 · current release · diff ↗ ·
48 hours in CRAN's queue
Listed in CRAN's incoming queue from 2026-10-23 19:40 to 2026-10-25 19:37 UTC, in 14 readings.
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0
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2025-07-14
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Across CRAN, the median accepted release of the past year spent 22 hours in the queue, 90% under 11 days.How queue time is measured

Package metadata

First published: 2025-07-14
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 523 KB / 9 files
Download size: 1.6 MB

Appears in task views

Actuarial Science

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("BayesMoFo")

Format

Wong, J. S. T., Diana, A., & Pittea, A. (2026). BayesMoFo: Bayesian Mortality Forecasting (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.BayesMoFo

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Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for BayesMoFo version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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