R Observatory: Metrics for backtest version 0.3-4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

backtest

0.3-4

Exploring Portfolio-Based Conjectures About Financial Instruments

0packages depend

4.2Kdownloads / year

52.2%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Daniel GerlancFirst published 2006-08-0310 releasesCRAN page ↗

The backtest package provides facilities for exploring portfolio-based conjectures about financial instruments (stocks, bonds, swaps, options, et cetera).

Install

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

install.packages("backtest", 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-backtest

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-backtest

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-backtest

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.14

52.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 20 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

4.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,780 · ~12/day · ~353/mo

Releases R versions

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30830 days

1.1K90 days

4.2K1 year

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Also on251 r2u22 autocran98 c2d4u

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (4)

R >= 2.10methodsgridlattice

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

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People & History

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Listed in earlier versions (11)

Kyle Campbell

no longer listed · 0.1-0 to 0.1-2

Jeff Enos

no longer listed · 0.1-0 to 0.3-4

Daniel Gerlanc

no longer listed · 0.1-0 to 0.3-4

and David Kane

no longer listed · 0.1-0 to 0.1-2

with contributions from Kyle Campbell

no longer listed · 0.2-0 to 0.3-4

David Kane

no longer listed · 0.2-0 to 0.3-4

Aaron Schwartz

no longer listed · 0.2-0 to 0.3-4

and Daniel Suo

no longer listed · 0.2-0 to 0.2-2

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Package metadata

First published: 2006-08-03
Total releases: 10 / 20 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 2.9 MB / 2 files
Download size: 3.3 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for backtest version 0.3-4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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