R Observatory: Metrics for dynamite version 1.6.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

dynamite

1.6.3Package record

Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference for Multivariate Longitudinal Data

0packages depend

7.1Kdownloads / year

88.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Santtu TikkaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Easy-to-use and efficient interface for Bayesian inference of complex panel (time series) data using dynamic multivariate panel models by Helske and Tikka (2024) doi:10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100617. The package supports joint modeling of multiple measurements per individual, time-varying and time-invariant effects, and a wide range of discrete and continuous distributions. Estimation of these dynamic multivariate panel models is carried out via 'Stan'. For an in-depth tutorial of the package, see (Tikka and Helske, 2025) doi:10.18637/jss.v115.i05.

Changes in 1.6.3

Fixed an issue related to Matrix package dependency.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("dynamite", 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("ropensci/dynamite")

Development version from ropensci/dynamite. 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-dynamite

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-dynamite

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-dynamite

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: 7.4 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-06
WARNING10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-04-23
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.6.3

READMEYes · 593 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.6.3Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 50 (11 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%29 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 56%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 63%
Help pages citing references: 6%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

7.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,090 · ~20/day · ~594/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

55930 days

1.6K90 days

7.1K1 year

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Also on251 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/dynamite ↗Organization: ropensci

38Stars

1Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

1,404Commits

6Commit identities

bayesian-inferencepanel-datarr-packagerstatsstanstatistical-models

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 1,404 commits · Last activity 2026-10-16 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.6.4, ahead of CRAN 1.6.3 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 93%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-19 · 352026-07-07 · 38

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/dynamite on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (2)

Code of conduct (inherited from ropensci)Contributing guide

Docs source (2)

README.Rmdpkgdown

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing dynamite adds 56 packages (30 with compiled code, 55 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (14)

checkmate cli data.table ggforce glue ggplot2 loo patchwork posterior rlang rstanstatstibbleutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

cmdstanr covr dplyr knitr mice mockthat quarto testthat tidyr

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)

Santtu Tikka

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.1 (2022)

Jouni Helske

Author

Nicholas Clark

Reviewer

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan

Reviewer · added in 1.5.2

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Lucy D’Agostino McGowan

no longer listed · 1.0.1 to 1.4.9

Releases (14)

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1.6.3Latest
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2026-04-27 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.6.2
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.5.6
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2025-04-07 · diff ↗
1.5.5
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2024-11-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 9 exports
get_algorithm, get_diagnostics, get_draws, get_elapsed_time, get_max_treedepth, get_model_code, get_nchains, get_ndraws, get_pars_oi
1.5.2
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2024-05-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
dynamice, hmc_diagnostics, mice.impute.lag, mice.impute.lead
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.4.9
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1.4.5
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2023-08-23 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-05-30
1.4.3
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2023-05-30 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-05-28
issues were not corrected in time
1.4.2
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1.4.1
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2023-05-10 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

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1.3.3
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2023-04-18 · diff ↗
1.3.1
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2023-03-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
get_parameter_dims
1.1.1
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2023-02-03 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
random

added 3 exports
get_parameter_names, get_parameter_types, random_spec
1.0.1
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2022-12-23
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-12-23
Total releases: 14 / 4 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Additional repositories: stan-dev.r-universe.dev
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Bundled data: 2.8 MB / 6 files
Download size: 4.5 MB

Appears in task views

Bayesian Inference Time Series Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("dynamite")

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

It points to 10.18637/jss.v115.i05, 10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100617.

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 dynamite version 1.6.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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