R Observatory: Metrics for NobBS version 1.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

NobBS

1.1.1Package record

Nowcasting by Bayesian Smoothing

0packages dependsuggested by 1

6.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Rodrigo Zepeda TelloCRAN page ↗

A Bayesian approach to estimate the number of occurred-but-not-yet-reported cases from incomplete, time-stamped reporting data for disease outbreaks. 'NobBS' learns the reporting delay distribution and the time evolution of the epidemic curve to produce smoothed nowcasts in both stable and time-varying case reporting settings, as described in McGough et al. (2020) doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007735.

Install

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

install.packages("NobBS", 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-nobbs

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-NobBS

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-NobBS

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: 4.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
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 1.1.1

READMEYes · 1,034 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 1.1.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 4
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 39%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

6.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,937 · ~18/day · ~545/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

51230 days

1.2K90 days

6.5K1 year

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Also on74 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing NobBS adds 17 packages (10 with compiled code, 5.3 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, dplyr 902 KB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (5)

dplyr rlang rjags coda magrittr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown scoringutils ggplot2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

tbl.now

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (8)

Rodrigo Zepeda Tello

Maintainer since 1.1.1 (2026), Author, Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Author

Author

Author, Contributor

Author

Author, Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Matteo Perini

Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Teresa Yamana

Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Previously maintained by Rami Yaari (1.1.0) and Sarah McGough (0.1.0 to 1.0.0).

Releases (4)

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1.1.1Latest
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2026-06-01 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1.0
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2025-05-07 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-01-08
1.0.0
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-03-01
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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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
0.1.0
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2020-03-03
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-03-03
Total releases: 4 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Bundled data: 52 KB / 2 files
Download size: 543 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("NobBS")

Format

Zepeda Tello, R., Johansson, M., Lipsitch, M., McGough, S., Menzies, N., Perini, M., Yaari, R., & Yamana, T. (2026). NobBS: Nowcasting by Bayesian Smoothing (Version 1.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.NobBS

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for NobBS version 1.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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