R Observatory: Metrics for gamutil version 0.8.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gamutil

0.8.1Package record

Utilities to Facilitate Modeling Routines with Generalized Additive Models

0packages depend

1.9Kdownloads / year

97.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Motoki SaitoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

After fitting a Generalized Additive (Mixed) Model, the next step is often to obtain predicted values for certain combinations of predictors for visualization of estimated effects in the model. It involves constructing a new data frame, add predicted values, and finally makes a (contour) plot. This package is intended to facilitate these steps to visualize estimated effects in a generalized additive model. The underlying modeling methodology is described in Wood (2017, ISBN:9781498728331).

Changes in 0.8.1

Address CRAN reviewer feedback for resubmission:
DESCRIPTION now references Wood (2017, ISBN:9781498728331) for the underlying GAM methodology.
All \dontrun{} example wrappers replaced with \donttest{}. The examples are real, runnable code; they were wrapped only because some fit non-trivial GAMs that may exceed CRAN's 5-second budget, not because they cannot be executed.
The plot_partial() example is now self-contained (the previous example referenced model objects that were never defined inside the example block).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("gamutil", 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("msaito8623/gamutil")

Development version from msaito8623/gamutil. 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-gamutil

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-gamutil

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-gamutil

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: 3.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK8 OK2026-05-12

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.8.1

READMEYes · 559 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.8.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 9 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 38%3 run in a plain check · 5 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Visualize partially-summed effects in GAM HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

1.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,391 · ~5/day · ~157/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

32130 days

89390 days

1.9K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

msaito8623/gamutil ↗Account: msaito8623

2Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

50Commits

3Commit identities

50 commits · Last activity 2026-05-19 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-05-15 · 12026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/msaito8623/gamutil on 2026-10-18.

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 (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gamutil adds 45 packages (27 with compiled code, 53 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (5)

ggplot2 lifecycle metRmgcvRColorBrewer

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

testthat knitr rmarkdown RhpcBLASctl

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Motoki Saito

Author, Maintainer since 0.8.1 (2026)

Releases (1)

0.8.1Latest
record
2026-05-11 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-05-11
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 4.8 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("gamutil")

Format

Saito, M. (2026). gamutil: Utilities to Facilitate Modeling Routines with Generalized Additive Models (Version 0.8.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gamutil

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gamutil version 0.8.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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