R Observatory: Metrics for aster2 version 0.3-2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

aster2

0.3-2Package record

Aster Models

0packages depend

4Kdownloads / year

87.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Charles J. GeyerCRAN page ↗Website ↗

Aster models are exponential family regression models for life history analysis. They are like generalized linear models except that elements of the response vector can have different families (e. g., some Bernoulli, some Poisson, some zero-truncated Poisson, some normal) and can be dependent, the dependence indicated by a graphical structure. Discrete time survival analysis, zero-inflated Poisson regression, and generalized linear models that are exponential family (e. g., logistic regression and Poisson regression with log link) are special cases. Main use is for data in which there is survival over discrete time periods and there is additional data about what happens conditional on survival (e. g., number of offspring). Uses the exponential family canonical parameterization (aster transform of usual parameterization). Unlike the aster package, this package does dependence groups (nodes of the graph need not be conditionally independent given their predecessor node), including multinomial and two-parameter normal as families. Thus this package also generalizes mark-capture-recapture analysis.

Install

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

install.packages("aster2", 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-aster2

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-aster2

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-aster2

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: 3.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-11
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-10
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.3-2

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 11includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 91%10 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 27%

How these are measured

Downloads

4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,740 · ~11/day · ~332/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36530 days

1.2K90 days

4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on386 r2u45 autocran136 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing aster2 adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.6.0Matrix

Imports (1)

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LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

aster

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 (1)

Charles J. Geyer

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2010)

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Charles J. Geyer.

no longer listed · 0.1 to 0.3

Geyer

no longer listed · 0.3-2

Releases (4)

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15

Package metadata

First published: 2010-11-03
Total releases: 4 / 16 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Bundled data: 49 KB / 3 files
Download size: 81 KB

Appears in task views

Survival Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("aster2")

Format

Geyer, C. J. (2024). aster2: Aster Models (Version 0.3-2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.aster2

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 aster2 version 0.3-2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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