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beyondWhittle

Bayesian Spectral Inference for Time Series

v1.3.1 · Apr 15, 2026 · GPL (>= 3)

Description

Implementations of Bayesian parametric, nonparametric and semiparametric procedures for univariate and multivariate time series. The package is based on the methods presented in C. Kirch et al (2018) <doi:10.1214/18-BA1126>, A. Meier (2018) <https://opendata.uni-halle.de//handle/1981185920/13470> and Y. Tang et al (2025) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2025.2594191>. It was supported by DFG grants KI 1443/3-1 and KI 1443/3-2.

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Code

Structure

Lines of code

11,138

Files

188

Compiled share

16.2%

Has compiled src

Yes

Language breakdown

R 6,051 (54.3%)C/C++/src 1,800 (16.2%)Tests 77 (0.7%)Docs 3,210 (28.8%)

API

Exported functions

21

Internal functions

104

Recent export changes

v1.2.0+9 bayes_factor, bdp_dw_bayes_factor_k1, bdp_dw_est_post_stats +6 more

Testing & CI

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.01

testthat edition

3

CI present

No

CI type

[]

PR gated

No

Docs

Return-value doc rate

95.2%

\dontrun example ratio

92.9%

Roxygen coverage

100%

Has pkgdown

No

NEWS present

No

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

0%

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

50%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

System requirements

C++ standard

License

GPL (>= 3)

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

11

First release

2017-01-23

Latest release

2026-04-15

Avg cadence

272 days

Cold removal rate

100%

Dep drift

4

LOC over versions

v0.17: 3,764 LOCv0.18.1: 3,826 LOCv1.0: 5,776 LOCv1.1: 8,255 LOCv1.1.1: 8,258 LOCv1.1.2: 8,324 LOCv1.1.3: 8,385 LOCv1.2.0: 11,111 LOCv1.2.1: 11,111 LOCv1.3.0: 11,164 LOCv1.3.1: 11,138 LOC

Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/cran-code-metrics.

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies ltsa Rcpp MASS forecast beyondWhittle

Version History

12 tracked
updated 1.3.1 ← 1.3.0 diff Apr 15, 2026
new 1.3.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.3.0 ← 1.2.1 diff Nov 24, 2024
updated 1.2.1 ← 1.2.0 diff Mar 12, 2024
updated 1.2.0 ← 1.1.3 diff May 30, 2023
updated 1.1.3 ← 1.1.2 diff Apr 3, 2022
updated 1.1.2 ← 1.1.1 diff Jan 24, 2022
updated 1.1.1 ← 1.1 diff Jul 11, 2019
updated 1.1 ← 1.0 diff Nov 21, 2018
updated 1.0 ← 0.18.1 diff Jul 15, 2018
updated 0.18.1 ← 0.17 diff Apr 6, 2017
new 0.17 Jan 22, 2017