R Observatory: Metrics for beast version 1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

beast

1.2

Bayesian Estimation of Change-Points in the Slope of Multivariate Time-Series

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3.2Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Panagiotis PapastamoulisFirst published 2017-11-293 releasesCRAN page ↗

Assume that a temporal process is composed of contiguous segments with differing slopes and replicated noise-corrupted time series measurements are observed. The unknown mean of the data generating process is modelled as a piecewise linear function of time with an unknown number of change-points. The package infers the joint posterior distribution of the number and position of change-points as well as the unknown mean parameters per time-series by MCMC sampling. A-priori, the proposed model uses an overfitting number of mean parameters but, conditionally on a set of change-points, only a subset of them influences the likelihood. An exponentially decreasing prior distribution on the number of change-points gives rise to a posterior distribution concentrating on sparse representations of the underlying sequence, but also available is the Poisson distribution. See Papastamoulis et al (2019) doi:10.1515/ijb-2018-0052 for a detailed presentation of the method.

Install

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

install.packages("beast", 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-beast

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-beast

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-beast

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

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Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

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Check history

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NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

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Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 18%

Downloads

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CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,863 · ~9/day · ~268/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (1)

RColorBrewer

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Panagiotis Papastamoulis

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Panagiotis Papastamoulis

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-29
Total releases: 3 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 192 KB / 1 file
Download size: 217 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Papastamoulis, P. (2026). beast: Bayesian Estimation of Change-Points in the Slope of Multivariate Time-Series (Version 1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.beast

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for beast version 1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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