R Observatory: Metrics for bssm version 2.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bssm

2.0.3

Bayesian Inference of Non-Linear and Non-Gaussian State Space Models

1packages depend

34.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jouni HelskeFirst published 2017-06-2529 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Efficient methods for Bayesian inference of state space models via Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) based on parallel importance sampling type weighted estimators (Vihola, Helske, and Franks, 2020, doi:10.1111/sjos.12492), particle MCMC, and its delayed acceptance version. Gaussian, Poisson, binomial, negative binomial, and Gamma observation densities and basic stochastic volatility models with linear-Gaussian state dynamics, as well as general non-linear Gaussian models and discretised diffusion models are supported. See Helske and Vihola (2021, doi:10.32614/RJ-2021-103) for details.

Install

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

install.packages("bssm", 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("helske/bssm")

Development version from helske/bssm. 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-bssm

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-bssm

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-bssm

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

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 21.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.28

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

9

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-06-08
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-02
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-22
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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ERROR2026-04-18
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 540 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 83%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 94%
References docs: 36%

Downloads

34.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,329 · ~95/day · ~2.9K/mo

Releases R versions

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2.3K30 days

8.4K90 days

34.7K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ helske/bssm

49Stars

14Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

889Commits

10Contributors

bayesian-inferencemarkov-chain-monte-carloparticle-filtertime-seriesstate-spacercpp

889 commits · Last activity 2026-05-13 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-13 · 452026-07-07 · 49

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/helske/bssm on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Coverage (1)

Codecov

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (9)

bayesplot checkmate coda diagis dplyr posterior Rcpp rlang tidyr

LinkingTo (4)

ramcmc Rcpp RcppArmadillo sitmo

Suggests (10)

covr ggplot2 KFAS knitrMASSrmarkdown ramcmc sde sitmo testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Ecfun

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Jouni Helske

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Jouni Helske

Author, Maintainer

Matti Vihola

Author

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-06-25
Total releases: 29 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 1.1 MB / 6 files
Download size: 2.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Helske, J., & Vihola, M. (2025). bssm: Bayesian Inference of Non-Linear and Non-Gaussian State Space Models (Version 2.0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bssm

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for bssm version 2.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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