R Observatory: Metrics for bistablehistory version 1.1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bistablehistory

1.1.4Package record

Cumulative History Analysis for Bistable Perception Time Series

0packages depend

4.2Kdownloads / year

17.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Alexander PastukhovCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Estimates cumulative history for time-series for continuously viewed bistable perceptual rivalry displays. Computes cumulative history via a homogeneous first order differential process. I.e., it assumes exponential growth/decay of the history as a function time and perceptually dominant state, Pastukhov & Braun (2011) doi:10.1167/11.10.12. Supports Gamma, log normal, and normal distribution families. Provides a method to compute history directly and example of using the computation on a custom Stan code.

Changes in 1.1.4

Refactored code due to functions depreciation.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("bistablehistory", 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("alexander-pastukhov/bistablehistory")

Development version from alexander-pastukhov/bistablehistory. 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-bistablehistory

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-bistablehistory

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-bistablehistory

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: 10.0 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

Show 5 earlier changesHide 5 earlier changes

NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-08
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 1.1.4

READMEYes · 382 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.1.4Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 35 (4 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 32%8 run in a plain check · 17 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 95%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 3%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

4.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,654 · ~11/day · ~348/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

40030 days

1.1K90 days

4.2K1 year

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Also on449 r2u38 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

alexander-pastukhov/bistablehistory ↗Account: alexander-pastukhov

0Stars

1Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

280Commits

3Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 280 commits · Last activity 2026-03-11

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 20
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Forks over time

2021-12-18 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/alexander-pastukhov/bistablehistory on 2026-10-22.

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2022-09-28

pkgdown site last built 2022-09-28, before release 1.1.4 (2026-03-03)

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bistablehistory adds 54 packages (27 with compiled code, 57 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (4)

R >= 4.3.0loo rlang rstantools

Imports (10)

methodsRcpp rstan dplyr tibble gluebootparallelpurrr tidyr

LinkingTo (6)

BH Rcpp RcppEigen RcppParallel rstan StanHeaders (>= 2.26.0)

Suggests (4)

testthat knitr rmarkdown ggplot2

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)

Alexander Pastukhov

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2021)

Releases (6)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1.4Latest
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2026-03-03 · current release · diff ↗
1.1.3
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2025-10-11 · diff ↗
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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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2023-09-13 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.1.1
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2022-03-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
predict_history
1.1.0
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2022-01-14 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
history_mix

added 5 exports
check_normal_prior, extract_history_parameter, extract_replicate_term_to_matrix, extract_term_to_matrix, predict_samples
1.0.0
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2021-09-28
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-09-28
Total releases: 6 / 5 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.3.0
Bundled data: 303 KB / 7 files
Download size: 3.2 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("bistablehistory")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.21105/joss.03901.

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 bistablehistory version 1.1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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