R Observatory: Metrics for StanHeaders version 2.39.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

StanHeaders

2.39.1Package record

C++ Header Files for Stan

156packages dependsuggested by 1

11.4Mdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ben GoodrichCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

The C++ header files of the Stan project are provided by this package, but it contains little R code or documentation. The main reference is the vignette. There is a shared object containing part of the 'CVODES' library, but its functionality is not accessible from R. 'StanHeaders' is primarily useful for developers who want to utilize the 'LinkingTo' directive of their package's DESCRIPTION file to build on the Stan library without incurring unnecessary dependencies. The Stan project develops a probabilistic programming language that implements full or approximate Bayesian statistical inference via Markov Chain Monte Carlo or 'variational' methods and implements (optionally penalized) maximum likelihood estimation via optimization. The Stan library includes an advanced automatic differentiation scheme, 'templated' statistical and linear algebra functions that can handle the automatically 'differentiable' scalar types (and doubles, 'ints', etc.), and a parser for the Stan language. The 'rstan' package provides user-facing R functions to parse, compile, test, estimate, and analyze Stan models.

Install

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

install.packages("StanHeaders", 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("stan-dev/rstan")

Development version from stan-dev/rstan. 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-stanheaders

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-StanHeaders

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-StanHeaders

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: 16.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-29

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-27
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.39.1

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 14%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Using the Stan Math C++ Library HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

11.4M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #37 · ~31.1K/day · ~946.5K/mo

Releases R versions

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955.7K30 days

3.6M90 days

11.4M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on18.9K r2u196 autocran49.9K conda_forge1.2K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

stan-dev/rstan ↗Organization: stan-dev

1,087Stars

266Forks

346Open issues

12Open PRs

11Releases

4,255Commits

81Commit identities

stanmcmcbayesian-inferencebayesian-data-analysisbayesian-statisticsrr-package

4,255 commits · Last activity 2026-10-22 · +0.1% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 84%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2026-01-26 · 1,0662026-10-01 · 1,087

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/stan-dev/rstan on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (4)

Issue templatesPR templateFunding

Funding links: GitHub Sponsors, mc-stan.org

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (2)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-19 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-12-10, before release 2.39.1 (2026-09-02)

CRAN release process (1)

revdep/

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Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

Git structural (1)

Submodules

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing StanHeaders adds 3 packages (3 with compiled code, 4.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppEigen 1.7 MB, RcppParallel 744 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (1)

RcppParallel

LinkingTo (2)

RcppEigen RcppParallel

Suggests (8)

Rcpp BH knitr rmarkdownMatrixmethodsrstan withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

156direct

194indirect

Depends 2 · Imports 3 · LinkingTo 153

Suggested by 1

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 108 more dependents and 1 package that suggests it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (28)

Ben Goodrich

Maintainer since 2.7.0 (2015), Author · added in 2.7.0

Jeffrey Arnold

Author · added in 2.7.0

Hamada S. Badr

Author · added in 2.26.25

Michael Betancourt

Author · added in 2.7.0

Marcus Brubaker

Author · added in 2.7.0

Bob Carpenter

Author · added in 2.7.0

Jonah Gabry

Author · added in 2.7.0

Yuanjun Gao

Author · added in 2.7.0

Andrew Gelman

Author · added in 2.7.0

Rob Goedman

Author · added in 2.7.0

Robert Grant

Author · added in 2.7.0

Jiqiang Guo

Author · added in 2.7.0

Matt Hoffman

Author · added in 2.7.0

Marco Inacio

Author · added in 2.7.0

Alp Kucukelbir

Author · added in 2.7.0

Brian Lau

Author · added in 2.7.0

Daniel Lee

Author · added in 2.7.0

Peter Li

Author · added in 2.7.0

Michael Malecki

Author · added in 2.7.0

Mitzi Morris

Author · added in 2.7.0

Allen Riddell

Author · added in 2.7.0

Dustin Tran

Author · added in 2.7.0

Rob Trangucci

Author · added in 2.7.0

Joshua Pritikin

Contributor · added in 2.7.0

Trustees of Columbia University

Copyright holder · added in 2.10.0

Lawrence Livermore National Security

Copyright holder · added in 2.10.0

CVODES

Southern Methodist University

Copyright holder · added in 2.10.0

CVODES

The Regents of the University of California

Copyright holder · added in 2.10.0

CVODES

Previously maintained by Joshua N. Pritikin (2.6.0-10).

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Stan Development Team

no longer listed · 2.6.0-10

Joshua N.

no longer listed · 2.6.0-10

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-02-10
Total releases: 38 / 11 yrs
License: BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 2.5 MB

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Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("StanHeaders")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

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Format

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for StanHeaders version 2.39.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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