R Observatory: Metrics for SBRect version 0.26

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2022-11-20. Its history is shown below.

Reason: issues were not corrected despite reminders

Details below reflect version 0.26, its last release before removal.

SBRect

0.26

Detecting structural breaks using rectangle covering (non-parametric method).

0packages depend

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul Fischer1 releasesCRAN page ↗

The package uses fitting axes-aligned rectangles to a time series in order to find structural breaks. The algorithm enclose the time series in a number of axes-aligned rectangles and tries to minimize their area and number. As these are conflicting aims, the user has to specify a parameter alpha in [0.0,1.0]. Values close to 0 result in more breakpoints, values close to 1 in fewer. The left edges of the rectangles are the breakpoints. The package supplies two methods, computeBreakPoints(series,alpha) which returns the indices of the break points and computeRectangles(series,alpha) which returns the rectangles. The algorithm is randomised; it uses a genetic algorithm. Therefore, the break point sequence found can be different in different executions of the method on the same data, especially when used on longer series of some thousand observations. The algorithm uses a range-tree as background data structure which makes i very fast and suited to analyse series with millions of observations. A detailed description can be found in Paul Fischer, Astrid Hilbert, Fast detection of structural breaks, Proceedings of Compstat 2014.

Install

R (source archive)Ubuntu (r2u)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/SBRect/SBRect_0.26.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "SBRect_0.26.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (0.26) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

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-sbrect

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

Health

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Coverage

100%

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Documentation

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

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

rJava

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Suggests (1)

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Paul Fischer

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Paul Fischer

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Contributors (1)

Astrid Hilbert

Contributor, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (2)

Paul Fischer

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Astrid Hilbert

Contributor, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-11-20
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
0.26
2014-02-07
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

Total releases: 1
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("SBRect")

Format

Fischer, P., & Hilbert, A. (n.d.). SBRect: Detecting structural breaks using rectangle covering (non-parametric method). (Version 0.26) [Computer software]. Retrieved August 13, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=SBRect

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for SBRect version 0.26 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-13. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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