R Observatory: Metrics for forward version 1.0.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

forward

1.0.7Package record

Robust Analysis using Forward Search

0packages dependsuggested by 1

23.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ken BeathCRAN 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. 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-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). 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: 1.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.7

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 0% structuredCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 36
Examples that run: 71%5 run in a plain check · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 54%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

23.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,979 · ~65/day · ~2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.6K30 days

4.6K90 days

23.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on77 r2u5 autocran95 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing forward adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5MASS

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

robmixglm

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

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

Luca Scrucca

Contributor

Maintainer since 1.0.4 (2018), previously Luca Scrucca (1.0 to 1.0.3)

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Originally written for S-Plus by: Kjell Konis

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.0.6

Luca Scrucca Ken Beath

no longer listed · 1.0.4 to 1.0.6

Releases (8)

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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

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("forward")

Format

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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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for forward version 1.0.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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