R Observatory: Metrics for SIRE version 1.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

SIRE

1.1.0Package record

Finding Feedback Effects in SEM and Testing for Their Significance

0packages depend

2.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gianmarco VaccaCRAN page ↗

Provides two main functionalities. 1 - Given a system of simultaneous equation, it decomposes the matrix of coefficients weighting the endogenous variables into three submatrices: one includes the subset of coefficients that have a causal nature in the model, two include the subset of coefficients that have a interdependent nature in the model, either at systematic level or induced by the correlation between error terms. 2 - Given a decomposed model, it tests for the significance of the interdependent relationships acting in the system, via Maximum likelihood and Wald test, which can be built starting from the function output. For theoretical reference see Faliva (1992) doi:10.1007/BF02589085 and Faliva and Zoia (1994) doi:10.1007/BF02589041.

Install

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

install.packages("SIRE", 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-sire

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-SIRE

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-SIRE

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespaces in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘dplyr’ ‘magrittr’ ‘psych’ ‘stringr’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 56 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-09-08
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.1.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 5
Examples that run: 67%2 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,718 · ~6/day · ~197/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

32030 days

75490 days

2.4K1 year

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Also on66 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing SIRE adds 75 packages (38 with compiled code, 66 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, igraph 4.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (11)

systemfit psych igraph matrixcalcMASSnumDerivMatrixstringr Rsolnp dplyr magrittr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Gianmarco Vacca

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.2 (2018)

Releases (2)

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1.1.0Latest
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2019-04-11 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
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added 4 exports
causal_decompose, dec_calc, feedback_ml, rho_calc
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Package metadata

First published: 2018-07-30
Total releases: 2 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Bundled data: 3.0 KB / 1 file
Download size: 12 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("SIRE")

Format

Vacca, G. (2019). SIRE: Finding Feedback Effects in SEM and Testing for Their Significance (Version 1.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.SIRE

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for SIRE version 1.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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