R Observatory: Metrics for estimateW version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

estimateW

0.2.0Package record

Estimation of Spatial Weight Matrices

0packages depend

4.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tamas KrisztinCRAN page ↗

Bayesian estimation of spatial weight matrices in spatial econometric panel models. Allows for estimation of spatial autoregressive (SAR), spatial error (SEM), spatial Durbin (SDM), spatial error Durbin (SDEM) and spatially lagged explanatory variable (SLX) type specifications featuring an unknown spatial weight matrix. Methodological details are given in Krisztin and Piribauer (2022) doi:10.1080/17421772.2022.2095426.

Changes in 0.2.0

Added slx() function for estimating Spatial Lag of X (SLX) models with exogenous spatial weight matrices.
Added logdetSpline() function implementing spline-based approximations for the log-determinant in rho sampling.
Updated default rho prior to utilize the Pace and Barry approximation for improved computational efficiency.
Fixed bug where print and plot methods failed to correctly handle SEM and SLX model objects.
Corrected temporal indices in the NUTS1 growth dataset.
Optimized posterior sampling routines for improved convergence in high-dimensional settings.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("estimateW", 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-estimatew

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-estimateW

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-estimateW

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: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

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

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 94 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 29
Examples that run: 100%12 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 48%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 48%
Help pages citing references: 28%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,549 · ~12/day · ~361/mo

Releases R versions

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36530 days

1K90 days

4.3K1 year

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Also on79 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing estimateW adds 3 packages (0 with compiled code, 2.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: plot.matrix 2.7 MB, R6 63 KB, matrixcalc 30 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (7)

graphicsMatrixmatrixcalc plot.matrix R6statsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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People & History

People (2)

Tamas Krisztin

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2022)

Philipp Piribauer

Author

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.0Latest
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2026-03-13 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
logdetSpline, slx
0.1.0
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2025-05-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
sdem, sdemw, sem, semw
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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
0.0.1
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2022-12-06
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-12-06
Total releases: 3 / 4 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 42 KB / 2 files
Download size: 85 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("estimateW")

Format

Krisztin, T., & Piribauer, P. (2026). estimateW: Estimation of Spatial Weight Matrices (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.estimateW

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for estimateW version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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