R Observatory: Metrics for WALS version 0.2.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

WALS

0.2.6Package record

Weighted-Average Least Squares Model Averaging

0packages depend

2.3Kdownloads / year

75.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kevin HuynhCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

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. 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-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). 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: 3.1 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
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.6

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 0.2.6Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 33
Examples that run: 100%16 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 79% with a bibliography file

How these are measured

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,828 · ~6/day · ~194/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

38030 days

78790 days

2.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on72 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

kevhuy/wals ↗Account: kevhuy

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

260Commits

1Commit identities

260 commits · Last activity 2025-07-11 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 11
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2024-02-17 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/kevhuy/wals 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

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing WALS adds 3 packages (1 with compiled code, 1.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: rbibutils 1.1 MB, Rdpack 370 KB, Formula 46 KB.

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

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Kevin Huynh

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.3 (2023)

Releases (4)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

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

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("WALS")

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

It points to 10.48550/arxiv.2404.11324.

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 WALS version 0.2.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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