R Observatory: Metrics for forward version 1.0.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

forward

1.0.7

Robust Analysis using Forward Search

1packages depend

21.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ken BeathFirst published 2003-07-048 releasesCRAN page ↗

Robust analysis using forward search in linear and generalized linear regression models, as described in Atkinson, A.C. and Riani, M. (2000), Robust Diagnostic Regression Analysis, First Edition. New York: Springer.

Install

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

install.packages("forward", 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-forward

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-forward

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-forward

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

1

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-08
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 94%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 100%

Downloads

21.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,698 · ~58/day · ~1.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.8K30 days

6.3K90 days

21.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on107 r2u23 autocran56 c2d4u

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5MASS

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

robmixglm

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Ken Beath

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.0.7

Authors (3)

Ken Beath

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.0.7

Kjell Konis

Author · added in 1.0.7

Marco Riani

Author · added in 1.0.7

Contributors (1)

Luca Scrucca

Contributor · added in 1.0.7

Listed in earlier versions (4)

Marco Riani Ported to R by Luca Scrucca <luca@stat.unipg.it>

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.0.3

Originally written for S-Plus by: Kjell Konis

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.0.6

Marco Riani Ported to R by Luca Scrucca <luca@stat.unipg.it> Ken Beath <ken.beath@mq.edu.au>

no longer listed · 1.0.4 to 1.0.5

Marco Riani Ported to R by Luca Scrucca <luca@stat.unipg.it> Ken Beath <ken@kjbeath.com.au>

no longer listed · 1.0.6

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Package metadata

First published: 2003-07-04
Total releases: 8 / 23 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 16 KB / 23 files
Download size: 61 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Beath, K., Konis, K., Riani, M., & Scrucca, L. (2024). forward: Robust Analysis using Forward Search (Version 1.0.7) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.forward

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for forward version 1.0.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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