R Observatory: Metrics for RGAP version 0.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RGAP

0.1.1

Production Function Output Gap Estimation

0packages depend

2.2Kdownloads / year

44.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Sina StreicherFirst published 2023-06-012 releasesCRAN page ↗

The output gap indicates the percentage difference between the actual output of an economy and its potential. Since potential output is a latent process, the estimation of the output gap poses a challenge and numerous filtering techniques have been proposed. 'RGAP' facilitates the estimation of a Cobb-Douglas production function type output gap, as suggested by the European Commission (Havik et al. 2014) https://ideas.repec.org/p/euf/ecopap/0535.html. To that end, the non-accelerating wage rate of unemployment (NAWRU) and the trend of total factor productivity (TFP) can be estimated in two bivariate unobserved component models by means of Kalman filtering and smoothing. 'RGAP' features a flexible modeling framework for the appropriate state-space models and offers frequentist as well as Bayesian estimation techniques. Additional functionalities include direct access to the 'AMECO' https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/economic-research-and-databases/economic-databases/ameco-database_en database and automated model selection procedures. See the paper by Streicher (2022) http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/552089 for details.

Install

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

install.packages("RGAP", 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-rgap

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-RGAP

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-RGAP

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.04

44.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
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NOTE2026-08-01
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OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 348 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,086 · ~6/day · ~179/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (7)

statsKFAS zoo dlm openxlsx ggplot2 gridExtra

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none

Suggests (2)

testthat R.rsp

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Sina Streicher

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Sina Streicher

Author, Maintainer

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Package metadata

First published: 2023-06-01
Total releases: 2 / 3 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Bundled data: 185 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.1 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Streicher, S. (2023). RGAP: Production Function Output Gap Estimation (Version 0.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RGAP

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for RGAP version 0.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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