R Observatory: Metrics for cascsim version 0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

cascsim

0.4Package record

Casualty Actuarial Society Individual Claim Simulator

0packages depend

3.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kailan ShangCRAN page ↗

It is an open source insurance claim simulation engine sponsored by the Casualty Actuarial Society. It generates individual insurance claims including open claims, reopened claims, incurred but not reported claims and future claims. It also includes claim data fitting functions to help set simulation assumptions. It is useful for claim level reserving analysis. Parodi (2013) https://www.actuaries.org.uk/documents/triangle-free-reserving-non-traditional-framework-estimating-reserves-and-reserve-uncertainty.

Install

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

install.packages("cascsim", 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-cascsim

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-cascsim

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-cascsim

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: 4.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 107
Examples that run: 96%86 run in a plain check · 4 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

cascsim HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,115 · ~10/day · ~310/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36030 days

1K90 days

3.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on99 r2u13 autocran64 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing cascsim adds 14 packages (7 with compiled code, 11 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: copula 3.5 MB, fitdistrplus 2.4 MB, colorspace 2.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (7)

parallelR2HTML fitdistrplus moments copula scatterplot3dmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

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 (4)

Kailan Shang

Author, Maintainer since 0.3 (2019)

Robert Bear

Author

Hai You

Author

Brian Fannin

Contributor

Releases (2)

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2020-01-13 · current release · diff ↗
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2019-06-04
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-06-04
Total releases: 2 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Bundled data: 77 KB / 1 file
Download size: 168 KB

Appears in task views

Actuarial Science

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("cascsim")

Format

Shang, K., Bear, R., Fannin, B., & You, H. (2020). cascsim: Casualty Actuarial Society Individual Claim Simulator (Version 0.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.cascsim

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

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 cascsim version 0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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