R Observatory: Metrics for RandomWalker version 1.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RandomWalker

1.1.0Package record

Generate Random Walks Compatible with the 'tidyverse'

0packages depend

6.5Kdownloads / year

14.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Steven SandersonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Generates random walks of various types by providing a set of functions that are compatible with the 'tidyverse'. The functions provided in the package make it simple to create random walks with a variety of properties, such as how many simulations to run, how many steps to take, and the distribution of random walk itself.

Changes in 1.1.0

Breaking Changes

None

New Features

1. Fix #287 - Add function double_pendulum_walk() to create double-pendulum

trajectories with randomized starting angles, static trajectory plots, and

optional animation.

2. Fix #235 - Add function custom_walk() to generate a random walk using a

custom function of your own. It must output a single value.

Minor Fixes and Improvements

Fix #289 - Make grouping optional in summarize_walks() and summarise_walks(), and support both dimension metadata attribute spellings.

1. Fix #252 - Update generating functions resulting in a 2.8x speed up or 82% faster.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("RandomWalker", 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("spsanderson/RandomWalker")

Development version from spsanderson/RandomWalker. 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-randomwalker

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-RandomWalker

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-RandomWalker

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: 9.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-12
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-09-08
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.0

READMEYes · 613 wordsVignettesYes · 11 · evaluation depends on the environmentNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 59
Examples that run: 98%57 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 98%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 98%
Help pages citing references: 2%

Vignettes (11)

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How these are measured

Downloads

6.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,619 · ~18/day · ~543/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

43830 days

1.1K90 days

6.5K1 year

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Also on82 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

spsanderson/randomwalker ↗Account: spsanderson

9Stars

1Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

634Commits

3Commit identities

rrandom-walkrandom-walksrpackagesrstats

634 commits · Last activity 2026-09-08 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.1.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.1.0 (checked 2026-10-11) · Discussions: 7 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 96%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 24
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-25 · 92026-07-07 · 9

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/spsanderson/randomwalker on 2026-10-11.

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-08

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-08

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Gemini CLIfirst seen on or before 2025-05-05
Commits: at least 2 crediting it in the message
GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2025-08-20
Seen in the repository: .github/copilot-instructions.md, .github/instructions, .github/skills
Pull request: opened by its own account
Commits: 42 by its own account

Review tools

Copilot code review
Commits: at least 34 accepting its review suggestions

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing RandomWalker adds 61 packages (33 with compiled code, 62 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, bslib 5.6 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (7)

dplyr tidyr purrr rlang patchwork NNS ggiraph

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

deSolve gganimate gifski knitr rmarkdownstatsggplot2 tidyselect

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Steven Sanderson

Antti Rask

Author, Copyright holder

Releases (5)

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1.1.0Latest
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2026-09-07 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
animate_double_pendulum, custom_walk, double_pendulum_walk, plot_double_pendulum
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.0
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2025-08-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 21 exports
random_beta_walk, random_binomial_walk, random_cauchy_walk, random_chisquared_walk, random_displacement_walk, random_exponential_walk, random_f_walk, random_gamma_walk, random_geometric_walk, random_hypergeometric_walk, random_logistic_walk, random_lognormal_walk, random_multinomial_walk, random_negbinomial_walk, random_poisson_walk, random_smirnov_walk, random_t_walk, random_uniform_walk, random_weibull_walk, random_wilcox_walk, random_wilcoxon_sr_walk
0.3.0
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2025-05-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
confidence_interval, rand_walk_column_names, subset_walks
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.0
record
2024-10-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
get_attributes, running_quantile, std_cum_max_augment, std_cum_mean_augment, std_cum_min_augment, std_cum_prod_augment, std_cum_sum_augment
0.1.0
record
2024-09-15
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-09-15
Total releases: 5 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 3.0 MB

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citation("RandomWalker")

Format

Sanderson, S., & Rask, A. (2026). RandomWalker: Generate Random Walks Compatible with the 'tidyverse' (Version 1.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RandomWalker

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for RandomWalker version 1.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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