R Observatory: Metrics for SUMMER version 2.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

SUMMER

2.0.0Package record

Small-Area-Estimation Unit/Area Models and Methods for Estimation in R

3packages dependsuggested by 1

129.8Kdownloads / year

1.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Zehang R LiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides methods for spatial and spatio-temporal smoothing of demographic and health indicators using survey data, with particular focus on estimating and projecting under-five mortality rates, described in Mercer et al. (2015) doi:10.1214/15-AOAS872, Li et al. (2019) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0210645, Wu et al. (DHS Spatial Analysis Reports No. 21, 2021), and Li et al. (2023) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2007.05117.

Changes in 2.0.0

Major updates to function argument naming to improve consistency. Most of the arguments are backward compatible.
New set of unit tests.
New vignette on specifying cluster-level model for mortality estimation.
Improvements to existing functions.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("SUMMER", 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("richardli/SUMMER")

Development version from richardli/SUMMER. 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-summer

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-SUMMER

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-SUMMER

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: 9.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.0.0

READMEYes · 406 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.0.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 66 (4 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 18%8 run in a plain check · 35 never run · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 93%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 80%
Help pages citing references: 23%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

129.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,997 · ~356/day · ~10.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3K30 days

9.2K90 days

129.8K1 year

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Also on154 r2u8 autocran88 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

richardli/summer ↗Account: richardli

26Stars

7Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

669Commits

10Commit identities

small-area-estimationbayesian-inferencespace-timer-package

669 commits · Last activity 2026-09-14 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 80%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 46
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-10-15 · 242026-07-07 · 26

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/richardli/summer on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-14 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-14

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

30 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing SUMMER adds 98 packages (57 with compiled code, 111 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (22)

surveystatsspdepsurvivalggplot2 scalesutilsMatrixreshape2 viridis sp sf shadowtext ggridgesmethodsdata.table RColorBrewergrDevicesfields terra haven lifecycle

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (14)

INLA sn knitr rmarkdown readstata13 patchwork rdhs R.rsp sae dplyr tidyr raster fmesher testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

Imports 3

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

surveyPrev sae4health GeoAdjust

Suggests, most downloaded first

survey

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (10)

Zehang R Li

Maintainer since 0.3.0 (2019), Author

Samuel J Clark

Author · added in 0.2.0

Geir-Arne Fuglstad

Author · added in 0.3.0

Peter Gao

Author · added in 1.3.0

Jessica Godwin

Author · added in 0.2.0

Yuan Hsiao

Author · added in 0.2.0

Bryan D Martin

Author

John Paige

Author · added in 1.2.0

Andrea Riebler

Author · added in 0.3.0

Jon Wakefield

Author · added in 0.2.0

Previously maintained by Bryan D Martin (0.1.0 to 0.2.3).

Releases (13)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.0.0Latest
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2025-01-07 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
ChangeRegion, getSmoothedDensity

added 1 export
changeRegion
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2024-03-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 17 exports
Benchmark, adjustPopMat, areaPopToArea, calibrateByRegion, compareEstimates, getAreaName, getPoppsub, logitNormMean, makePopIntegrationTab, mapEstimates, pixelPopToArea, poppRegionFromPopMat, projKenya, setThresholdsByRegion, simPopCustom, simPopSPDE, simSPDE
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.3.0
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2022-07-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
smoothArea, smoothUnit
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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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1.0.0
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2020-07-10 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
read_shape

added 6 exports
getSmoothedDensity, ridgePlot, smoothCluster, smoothDirect, smoothSurvey, tcpPlot
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3.0
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2019-10-23 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
countrySummary, countrySummary_mult, fitSpace, projINLA

added 11 exports
fitGeneric, fitINLA2, getAdjusted, getAmat, getCounts, getDiag, getDirect, getDirectList, getSmoothed, hatchPlot, mapPoints
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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2019-04-02 · diff ↗
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2019-01-20 · diff ↗ ·
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rst
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.0
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2018-04-20 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
spagPlot

added 2 exports
aggregateSurvey, fitSpace
0.1.0
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2017-11-30
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-30
Total releases: 13 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Additional repositories: inla.r-inla-download.org
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 1.5 MB / 10 files
Download size: 4.5 MB

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Official Statistics & Survey Statistics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("SUMMER")

Format

Li, Z. R., Clark, S. J., Fuglstad, G., Gao, P., Godwin, J., Hsiao, Y., Martin, B. D., Paige, J., Riebler, A., & Wakefield, J. (2025). SUMMER: Small-Area-Estimation Unit/Area Models and Methods for Estimation in R (Version 2.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.SUMMER

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for SUMMER version 2.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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