R Observatory: Metrics for bayesdfa version 1.3.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bayesdfa

1.3.4Package record

Bayesian Dynamic Factor Analysis (DFA) with 'Stan'

0packages depend

11.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Eric J. WardCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Implements Bayesian dynamic factor analysis with 'Stan'. Dynamic factor analysis is a dimension reduction tool for multivariate time series. 'bayesdfa' extends conventional dynamic factor models in several ways. First, extreme events may be estimated in the latent trend by modeling process error with a student-t distribution. Second, alternative constraints (including proportions are allowed). Third, the estimated dynamic factors can be analyzed with hidden Markov models to evaluate support for latent regimes.

Changes in 1.3.4

Update Stan linking

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("bayesdfa", 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("fate-ewi/bayesdfa")

Development version from fate-ewi/bayesdfa. 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-bayesdfa

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-bayesdfa

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-bayesdfa

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: 25.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-29
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-27
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-03
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-26
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.4

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 7 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.3.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 23includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 63%12 run in a plain check · 5 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 90%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 29%
Help pages citing references: 9%

Vignettes (7)

How these are measured

Downloads

11.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,381 · ~32/day · ~967/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

64630 days

2K90 days

11.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on481 r2u50 autocran126 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

fate-ewi/bayesdfa ↗Organization: fate-ewi

29Stars

17Forks

9Open issues

0Open PRs

10Releases

565Commits

9Commit identities

565 commits · Last activity 2026-05-26 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.3.5, ahead of CRAN 1.3.4 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 73%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 8
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 25

Stars over time

2025-04-18 · 292026-07-07 · 29

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/fate-ewi/bayesdfa on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-05-26 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bayesdfa adds 53 packages (27 with compiled code, 56 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (11)

dplyr ggplot2 loomethodsmgcvRcpp reshape2 rlang rstansplinesviridisLite

LinkingTo (6)

BH Rcpp RcppEigen RcppParallel rstan StanHeaders (>= 2.26.0)

Suggests (4)

testthatparallelknitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (11)

Eric J. Ward

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2018)

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Luis A.