R Observatory: Metrics for fabletools version 0.8.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fabletools

0.8.0Package record

Core Tools for Packages in the 'fable' Framework

21packages dependsuggested by 5

176.9Kdownloads / year

49.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mitchell O'Hara-WildCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides tools, helpers and data structures for developing models and time series functions for 'fable' and extension packages. These tools support a consistent and tidy interface for time series modelling and analysis.

Changes in 0.8.0

New features

Model combination now uses a joint N-way convolution that correctly accounts for the full residual covariance structure across all component models.
Added sum(), mean(), and weighted.mean() S3 methods for mdl_ts and mdl_lst objects, providing explicit N-way model combination with equal, uniform, or custom weights respectively.
All model arithmetic operators (+, -, *, /) now produce a single model_combination object with correctly implied weights. Arbitrary nested expressions such as ((m1 + m2)/2 + m3)/2 automatically flatten into a single joint combination.

Bug fixes

combination_ensemble() now computes inverse-variance weights using response residuals (type = "response") rather than innovation residuals. This is particularly important for models where the innovation residual variance is not comparable to the variance on the response scale, e.g. for multiplicative ETS models (#320).

Show all changes in 0.8.0Hide the rest of the changes in 0.8.0

Replaced unintuitive behaviour of previous pairwise iterative approach for model combination (e.g. (A + B + C)/3 as ((A + B) + C)/3) which used pairwise covariances that yield different results for different orders of models (#321).
Fixed computing training accuracy() with global models.

Improvements

Added with_bottom argument to coherent_smat() for inclusion of identity matrix entries for bottom level time series. Setting this to FALSE produces the A matrix (aggregated series only).
Added "bottom" attribute for coherent_smat() for safely identifying the index positions of bottom level series via graph coherency structures.

Breaking changes

The mdl_df class for mable data frames will be renamed to mbl_df (a mable data frame). This is to avoid a naming inconsistency with the mdl_ts and mdl_lst (for local and global models respectively), and free the class name for an eventual mdl_df multi-model class. The mbl_df class has been added, and mdl_df will be removed in the next minor release (v0.9.0).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("fabletools", 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("tidyverts/fabletools")

Development version from tidyverts/fabletools. 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-fabletools

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-fabletools

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-fabletools

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: 5.0 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

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.8.0

READMEYes · 80 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.8.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 88 (17 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 96%27 run in a plain check (19 of them under a condition) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 23%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 7%
Help pages citing references: 8%

Vignettes (1)

Extending fabletools: Models HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

176.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,056 · ~485/day · ~14.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

14K30 days

36K90 days

176.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.8K r2u9 autocran4.5K conda_forge373 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

tidyverts/fabletools ↗Organization: tidyverts

98Stars

37Forks

70Open issues

4Open PRs

19Releases

1,747Commits

14Commit identities

1,747 commits · Last activity 2026-10-11 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.8.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.8.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 71%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 687
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 12

Stars over time

2025-08-20 · 932026-08-12 · 98

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/tidyverts/fabletools 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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-28 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-06-28

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-10-10
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

32 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing fabletools adds 40 packages (21 with compiled code, 49 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.3

Imports (18)

tsibble tibble ggplot2 tidyselect rlangstatsdplyr tidyr generics R6utilsvctrs distributional progressr lifecycle ggdist scales cli

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (17)

covr crayon fable future future.apply knitr pillar feasts rmarkdown spelling testthat tsibbledata lubridate urca mvtnormMatrixggtime

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

21direct

4indirect

Depends 9 · Imports 12

Suggested by 5

Show all 26 packagesHide all 26 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

ggtime feasts fable fable.prophet theft fable.ata brolgar fable.intermittent echos fable.bayesRecon vital icomb iNZightTS fableCount epe4md wdiexplorer ForecastingEnsembles oddnet netseer fasster tscv

Suggests, most downloaded first

lessR mlr3forecast RTL grattanInflators tsibbletalk

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2019)

Rob Hyndman

Author

Earo Wang

Author

George Athanasopoulos

Contributor · added in 0.1.1

Di Cook

Contributor

David Holt

Contributor · added in 0.3.0

Releases (20)

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0.8.0Latest
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0.7.0
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2026-04-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
coherent_cmat, coherent_smat
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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
0.3.3
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2023-04-04 · diff ↗ ·
removed 13 exports
parse_model, parse_model_lhs, parse_model_rhs, traverse, validate_formula, vec_cast.agg_vec, vec_cast.dcmp_ts, vec_cast.fbl_ts, vec_cast.mdl_df, vec_ptype2.agg_vec, vec_ptype2.dcmp_ts, vec_ptype2.fbl_ts, vec_ptype2.mdl_df
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

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0.3.2
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combination_weighted, hypothesize
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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common_xregs, outliers, special_xreg
0.3.0
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MDA, MDPV, MDV, directional_accuracy_measures, hfitted, middle_out, quantile_score, scenarios
0.2.1
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2020-09-04 · diff ↗ ·
removed 6 exports
dist_mv_normal, dist_normal, dist_sim, dist_unknown, new_fcdist, new_fcdist_env

added 4 exports
agg_vec, bottom_up, skill_score, top_down
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removed 6 exports
GeomForecast, StatForecast, is_hilo, new_hilo, scale_level_continuous, scale_level_gradient

added 16 exports
RMSSE, distribution_var, is_dable, mable_vars, pinball_loss, response_vars, scaled_pinball_loss, unpack_hilo, vec_cast.agg_vec, vec_cast.dcmp_ts, vec_cast.fbl_ts, vec_cast.mdl_df, vec_ptype2.agg_vec, vec_ptype2.dcmp_ts, vec_ptype2.fbl_ts, vec_ptype2.mdl_df
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2020-01-29 · diff ↗ ·
removed 7 exports
decomposition_definition, model_definition, new_decomposition_class, new_decomposition_definition, scale_x_yearmonth, scale_x_yearquarter, scale_x_yearweek

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-08-08
Total releases: 20 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.3
Download size: 212 KB

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O'Hara-Wild, M., Athanasopoulos, G., Cook, D., Holt, D., Hyndman, R., & Wang, E. (2026). fabletools: Core Tools for Packages in the 'fable' Framework (Version 0.8.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.fabletools

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for fabletools version 0.8.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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