R Observatory: Metrics for RandomWalker version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RandomWalker

1.0.0

Generate Random Walks Compatible with the 'tidyverse'

0packages depend

6.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Steven SandersonFirst published 2024-09-154 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

Install

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

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.

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 2.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 124 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 98%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

6.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,069 · ~19/day · ~570/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

21730 days

1.2K90 days

6.8K1 year

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Also on109 r2u

Repository

GitHub ↗ spsanderson/randomwalker

9Stars

1Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

597Commits

3Contributors

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597 commits · Last activity 2026-08-12 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-20 · 72026-07-07 · 9

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/spsanderson/randomwalker on 2026-08-16.

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

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

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: gemini on 2025-05-05

geminicopilot

Most recent: copilot on 2025-08-20

Evidence

gemini: on or before 2025-05-05 · evidence B
copilot: on 2025-08-20 · evidence A, D, PR · sole bot-author seen

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (7)

dplyr tidyr purrr rlang patchwork NNS ggiraph

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdownstatsggplot2 tidyselect

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Steven Sanderson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (2)

Steven Sanderson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Antti Rask

Author, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (2)

Steven Sanderson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Antti Rask

Author, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.0Latest
2025-08-19 · current release · diff ↗
0.3.0
2025-05-06 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.0
2024-10-23 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2024-09-15
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-09-15
Total releases: 4 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 315 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("RandomWalker")

Format

Sanderson, S., & Rask, A. (2025). RandomWalker: Generate Random Walks Compatible with the 'tidyverse' (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RandomWalker

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for RandomWalker version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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