R Observatory: Metrics for VisitorCounts version 2.0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

VisitorCounts

2.0.4Package record

Modeling and Forecasting Visitor Counts Using Social Media

0packages depend

3.3Kdownloads / year

44.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Robert BowenCRAN page ↗

Performs modeling and forecasting of park visitor counts using social media data and (partial) on-site visitor counts. Specifically, the model is built based on an automatic decomposition of the trend and seasonal components of the social media-based park visitor counts, from which short-term forecasts of the visitor counts and percent changes in the visitor counts can be made. A reference for the underlying model that 'VisitorCounts' uses can be found at Russell Goebel, Austin Schmaltz, Beth Ann Brackett, Spencer A. Wood, Kimihiro Noguchi (2023) doi:10.1002/for.2965 .

Changes in 2.0.4

Relicensed from GPL-3 to MIT.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("VisitorCounts", 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-visitorcounts

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-VisitorCounts

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-VisitorCounts

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: 2.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-10
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-09
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 2.0.4

READMEYes · 629 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.0.4Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 36
Examples that run: 100%15 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 17%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 89%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

national_park_analysis

How these are measured

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,394 · ~9/day · ~272/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

43330 days

97190 days

3.3K1 year

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Also on74 r2u10 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing VisitorCounts adds 31 packages (18 with compiled code, 24 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, colorspace 2.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (5)

Rssamethodsggplot2 zoo cowplot

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

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 (5)

Robert Bowen

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2021)

Russell Goebel

Author

Kimihiro Noguchi

Author

Dylan Way

Author · added in 1.0.1

Beth Ann Brackett

Contributor

Releases (8)

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2.0.4Latest
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2026-05-27 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.0.3
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2025-01-16 · diff ↗
2.0.2
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2024-08-18 · diff ↗
2.0.1
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2024-07-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
convert_ts_forecast_to_df
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.0.0
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2024-03-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
label_visitation_forecast, new_visitation_forecast_ensemble, prediction_warning, trim_training_data
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.2
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2023-02-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
imputation, yearsToMonths
1.0.1
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2022-04-22 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.0
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2021-11-25
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-11-25
Total releases: 8 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL-3 in 2.0.4
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 23 KB / 3 files
Download size: 889 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("VisitorCounts")

Format

Bowen, R., Brackett, B. A., Goebel, R., Noguchi, K., & Way, D. (2026). VisitorCounts: Modeling and Forecasting Visitor Counts Using Social Media (Version 2.0.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.VisitorCounts

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 VisitorCounts version 2.0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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