R Observatory: Metrics for RSTr version 1.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RSTr

1.2.0Package record

Gibbs Samplers for Discrete Bayesian Spatiotemporal Models

0packages depend

2.4Kdownloads / year

35.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by David DeLaraCRAN page ↗Website ↗

Takes Poisson or Binomial discrete spatial data and runs a Gibbs sampler for a variety of Spatiotemporal Conditional Autoregressive (CAR) models. Includes measures to prevent estimate over-smoothing through a restriction of model informativeness for select models. Also provides tools to load output and get median estimates. Implements methods from Besag, York, and Mollié (1991) "Bayesian image restoration, with two applications in spatial statistics" doi:10.1007/BF00116466, Gelfand and Vounatsou (2003) "Proper multivariate conditional autoregressive models for spatial data analysis" doi:10.1093/biostatistics/4.1.11, Quick et al. (2017) "Multivariate spatiotemporal modeling of age-specific stroke mortality" doi:10.1214/17-AOAS1068, and Quick et al. (2021) "Evaluating the informativeness of the Besag-York-Mollié CAR model" doi:10.1016/j.sste.2021.100420.

Install

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

install.packages("RSTr", 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-rstr

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-RSTr

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-RSTr

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: 6.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-12
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-11
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 12 · dynamicNEWS· In the repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 22includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%14 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 5%

Vignettes (12)

An Introduction to the RSTr Package HTML
01: Understanding and Preparing Your Event Data HTML
02: Understanding and Preparing Your Adjacency Structure HTML
03: The CAR Models HTML
04: Generating Estimates: Age-standardization HTML
05: Generating Estimates: Reliability and Suppression HTML
06: Model Informativeness HTML
07: Sample Processing HTML
08: Initial Values HTML
09: Priors HTML

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How these are measured

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,977 · ~7/day · ~204/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

35330 days

1K90 days

2.4K1 year

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Also on276 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

cehi-code-repos/rstr ↗Organization: CEHI-code-reposFork of CDCgov/RSTr

1Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

399Commits

3Commit identities

License file reads as Apache-2.0 · DESCRIPTION declares GPL (>= 3) · 399 commits · Last activity 2026-07-08

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 80%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 9
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

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/cehi-code-repos/rstr 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

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-08 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing RSTr adds 17 packages (14 with compiled code, 31 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, spdep 4.5 MB, sp 4.3 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.3.0

Imports (3)

abind matrixStats spdep

LinkingTo (3)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo RcppDist (>= 0.1.1.1)

Suggests (5)

ggplot2 knitr rmarkdown sf testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

David DeLara

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2026)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Author, Copyright holder

Releases (3)

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1.2.0Latest
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2026-07-08 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1.4
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2026-01-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
split_sample_groups
1.0.0
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2026-01-17
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-17
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.3.0
Bundled data: 428 KB / 7 files
Download size: 2.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("RSTr")

Format

DeLara, D., & Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2026). RSTr: Gibbs Samplers for Discrete Bayesian Spatiotemporal Models (Version 1.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RSTr

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 RSTr version 1.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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