R Observatory: Metrics for VirtualPop version 2.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

VirtualPop

2.1.0Package record

Simulation of Populations by Sampling Waiting-Time Distributions

0packages dependsuggested by 1

6.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Frans WillekensCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Constructs a virtual population from fertility and mortality rates for any country, calendar year and birth cohort in the Human Mortality Database https://www.mortality.org and the Human Fertility Database https://www.humanfertility.org. Fertility histories are simulated for every individual and their offspring, producing a multi-generation virtual population.

Install

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

install.packages("VirtualPop", 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("willekens/VirtualPop")

Development version from willekens/VirtualPop. 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-virtualpop

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-VirtualPop

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-VirtualPop

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: 2.4 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 OK2026-06-09

Show 2 earlier changesHide 2 earlier changes

ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.1.0

READMENoVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · does not mention 2.1.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 16
Examples that run: 69%9 run in a plain check · 4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

6.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,435 · ~17/day · ~514/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

40530 days

97890 days

6.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on71 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

willekens/virtualpop ↗Account: willekens

11Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

2Open PRs

0Releases

43Commits

3Commit identities

demographylife-historiesmultistate-modelssimulation

43 commits · Last activity 2023-02-11 · The default branch showed an older version (1.0.3) than CRAN on 2026-10-18

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 21
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-04-30 · 102026-07-07 · 11

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/willekens/virtualpop on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing VirtualPop adds 48 packages (29 with compiled code, 27 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.3.0

Imports (2)

msm HMDHFDplus

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

knitr kableExtra ggplot2foreignlubridate xml2 ehasurvivalsurvminer rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

Families

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Frans Willekens

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.2 (2022)

Tim Riffe

Contributor

Releases (3)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.1.0Latest
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2025-04-12 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.0.2
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2024-03-18 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
Partnership

added 4 exports
BuildViP, GetRatesC, PartnerSearch, e0
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.2
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2022-06-23
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-06-23
Total releases: 3 / 4 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.3.0
Bundled data: 113 KB / 3 files
Download size: 689 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("VirtualPop")

Format

Willekens, F., & Riffe, T. (2025). VirtualPop: Simulation of Populations by Sampling Waiting-Time Distributions (Version 2.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.VirtualPop

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

Cite the R Observatory

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for VirtualPop version 2.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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