R Observatory: Metrics for RTMBdist version 1.0.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RTMBdist

1.0.5

Distributions Compatible with Automatic Differentiation by 'RTMB'

2packages depend

4.3Kdownloads / year

60.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jan-Ole FischerFirst published 2025-10-077 releasesCRAN page ↗

Extends the functionality of the 'RTMB' https://kaskr.r-universe.dev/RTMB package by providing a collection of non-standard probability distributions compatible with automatic differentiation (AD). While 'RTMB' enables flexible and efficient modelling, including random effects, its built-in support is limited to standard distributions. The package adds additional AD-compatible distributions, broadening the range of models that can be implemented and estimated using 'RTMB'. Automatic differentiation and Laplace approximation are described in Kristensen et al. (2016) doi:10.18637/jss.v070.i05.

Install

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

install.packages("RTMBdist", 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-rtmbdist

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-RTMBdist

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-RTMBdist

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 9.9 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.25

60.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

8

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-23
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-25
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 203 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 65%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 11%

Downloads

4.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,273 · ~12/day · ~361/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

22930 days

1.3K90 days

4.3K1 year

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Also on134 r2u2 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ janolefi/rtmbdist

4Stars

1Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

323Commits

2Contributors

323 commits · Last activity 2026-08-13 · 0% stars, 30d

Issues over time

2026-03-06 · 12026-07-07 · 2

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/janolefi/rtmbdist on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0RTMB

Imports (7)

statsMatrixgamlss.dist circular sn statmod movMF

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

knitr rmarkdown testthat TMB gamlss.data mvtnormmgcv

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

LaMa multiSA

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Jan-Ole Fischer

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.0.1

Authors (1)

Jan-Ole Fischer

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.0.1

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Jan-Ole Koslik

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 1.0.0

Package Timeline

7 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

1.0.5Latest
2026-07-22 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-07-22
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-07-15
issues were not corrected in time
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.4
2026-04-09 · diff ↗
1.0.3
2026-04-01 · diff ↗
1.0.2
2026-03-16 · diff ↗
1.0.1
2026-02-24 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2026-01-13 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2025-10-07
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-10-07
Total releases: 7 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 313 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("RTMBdist")

Format

Fischer, J. (2026). RTMBdist: Distributions Compatible with Automatic Differentiation by 'RTMB' (Version 1.0.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RTMBdist

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for RTMBdist version 1.0.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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