R Observatory: Metrics for bfsl version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bfsl

0.2.0Package record

Best-Fit Straight Line

0packages depend

4.1Kdownloads / year

92.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Patrick SturmCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

How to fit a straight line through a set of points with errors in both coordinates? The 'bfsl' package implements the York regression (York, 2004 doi:10.1119/1.1632486). It provides unbiased estimates of the intercept, slope and standard errors for the best-fit straight line to independent points with (possibly correlated) normally distributed errors in both x and y. Other commonly used errors-in-variables methods, such as orthogonal distance regression, geometric mean regression or Deming regression are special cases of the 'bfsl' solution.

Changes in 0.2.0

Added summary.bfsl() and print.summary.bfsl() methods.
Added broom tidier methods tidy(), glance() and augment() for bfsl objects.
Updated print.bfsl().

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("bfsl", 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("pasturm/bfsl")

Development version from pasturm/bfsl. 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-bfsl

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-bfsl

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-bfsl

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: 56 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 342 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 12 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 100%7 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 67%
Help pages citing references: 17%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,284 · ~11/day · ~344/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

32130 days

82490 days

4.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on116 r2u21 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

pasturm/bfsl ↗Account: pasturm

3Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

32Commits

2Commit identities

32 commits · Last activity 2022-08-26 · Default branch at 0.2.1, ahead of CRAN 0.2.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 88
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2024-09-04 · 32026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/pasturm/bfsl on 2026-10-18.

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 (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bfsl adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 46 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: generics 46 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (1)

generics

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat tibble dplyr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Patrick Sturm

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2018)

Releases (2)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.2.0Latest
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2021-09-23 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
augment, glance, tidy
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.0
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2018-12-16
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-12-16
Total releases: 2 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL-3 in 0.2.0
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 0.3 KB / 1 file
Download size: 87 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("bfsl")

Format

Sturm, P. (2021). bfsl: Best-Fit Straight Line (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bfsl

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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 bfsl version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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