R Observatory: Metrics for Mcomp version 2.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Mcomp

2.8Package record

Data from the M-Competitions

1packages dependsuggested by 5

40.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Rob HyndmanCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

The 1001 time series from the M-competition (Makridakis et al. 1982) DOI:10.1002/for.3980010202 and the 3003 time series from the IJF-M3 competition (Makridakis and Hibon, 2000) DOI:10.1016/S0169-2070(00)00057-1.

Changes in 2.8

Fixed S3 generic consistency for autoplot.Mdata

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

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

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("robjhyndman/Mcomp")

Development version from robjhyndman/Mcomp. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-mcomp

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-Mcomp

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-Mcomp

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: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.8

READMEYes · 143 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.8Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 6includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 0%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 83%

How these are measured

Downloads

40.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,181 · ~111/day · ~3.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.6K30 days

8K90 days

40.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on131 r2u9 autocran229 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

robjhyndman/mcomp ↗Account: robjhyndman

13Stars

7Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

66Commits

5Commit identities

cranrtime-seriesforecasting

66 commits · Last activity 2026-05-04 · +8.3% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.9, ahead of CRAN 2.8 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-20 · 122026-10-21 · 13

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/robjhyndman/mcomp on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-05-04 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-05-04

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing Mcomp adds 28 packages (16 with compiled code, 21 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, colorspace 2.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 2.10forecast

Imports (1)

ggplot2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 5

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Tcomp

Suggests, most downloaded first

tsfeatures fpp2 Rlgt seer vctsfr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Rob Hyndman

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 2.7

Muhammad Akram

Contributor · added in 2.7

Christoph Bergmeir

Contributor · added in 2.6

Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

Contributor · added in 2.6

Maintainer since 2.00 (2009)

Listed in earlier versions (3)

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Rob J Hyndman

no longer listed · 2.00 to 2.04

Rob J Hyndman with assistance from Muhammad Akram

no longer listed · 2.05 to 2.6

Christoph Bergmeir.

no longer listed · 2.05

Releases (9)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
2.7
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2018-01-24 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
autoplot.Mdata
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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2017-02-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
autoplot.Mdata
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
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R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17

Package metadata

First published: 2009-09-07
Total releases: 9 / 17 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 3.8 MB / 4 files
Download size: 3.6 MB

Appears in task views

Econometrics Time Series Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("Mcomp")

Format

Hyndman, R., Akram, M., Bergmeir, C., & O'Hara-Wild, M. (2018). Mcomp: Data from the M-Competitions (Version 2.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.Mcomp

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Mcomp version 2.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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