R Observatory: Metrics for WALS version 0.2.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

WALS

0.2.6

Weighted-Average Least Squares Model Averaging

0packages depend

2Kdownloads / year

75.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Kevin HuynhFirst published 2023-09-224 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Implements Weighted-Average Least Squares model averaging for negative binomial regression models of Huynh (2024) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2404.11324, generalized linear models of De Luca, Magnus, Peracchi (2018) doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2017.12.007 and linear regression models of Magnus, Powell, Pruefer (2010) doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2009.07.004, see also Magnus, De Luca (2016) doi:10.1111/joes.12094. Weighted-Average Least Squares for the linear regression model is based on the original 'MATLAB' code by Magnus and De Luca https://www.janmagnus.nl/items/WALS.pdf, see also Kumar, Magnus (2013) doi:10.1007/s13571-013-0060-9 and De Luca, Magnus (2011) doi:10.1177/1536867X1201100402.

Install

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

install.packages("WALS", 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("kevhuy/WALS")

Development version from kevhuy/WALS. 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-wals

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-WALS

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-WALS

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.15

75.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 79%

Downloads

2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,877 · ~5/day · ~167/mo

Releases R versions

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14130 days

52790 days

2K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ kevhuy/wals

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0Releases

260Commits

1Contributors

260 commits · Last activity 2025-07-11

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/kevhuy/wals on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (5)

FormulaMASSmethodsRdpack(>= 2.1.3)stats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

AER BayesVarSel BMS testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Kevin Huynh

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Kevin Huynh

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2023-09-22
Total releases: 4 / 3 yrs
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 6.6 KB / 2 files
Download size: 232 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("WALS")

Format

Huynh, K. (2025). WALS: Weighted-Average Least Squares Model Averaging (Version 0.2.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.WALS

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for WALS version 0.2.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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