R Observatory: Metrics for gratis version 1.0.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gratis

1.0.8Package record

Generating Time Series with Diverse and Controllable Characteristics

0packages depend

4.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Feng LiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Generates synthetic time series based on various univariate time series models including MAR and ARIMA processes. Kang, Y., Hyndman, R.J., Li, F.(2020) doi:10.1002/sam.11461.

Changes in 1.0.8

simulate_target(): examples updated to use dplyr::reframe() instead of summarise() to comply with dplyr 1.2.0.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("gratis", 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("ykang/gratis")

Development version from ykang/gratis. 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-gratis

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-gratis

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-gratis

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: 6.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.8

READMEYes · 212 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.8Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 15 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 92%11 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition) · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 83%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 83%
Help pages citing references: 33%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to gratis HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

4.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,021 · ~12/day · ~358/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

44830 days

1.2K90 days

4.3K1 year

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Also on102 r2u2 autocran95 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ykang/gratis ↗Account: ykang

78Stars

30Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

293Commits

9Commit identities

statistical-computingmixture-autoregressivetime-seriesdata-generation

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 293 commits · Last activity 2026-10-15 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.9, ahead of CRAN 1.0.8 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 28
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-10-15 · 762026-07-07 · 78

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ykang/gratis on 2026-10-22.

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

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gratis adds 108 packages (60 with compiled code, 96 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (19)

doRNG dplyr feasts fGarch foreach forecast GA generics magrittrmethodsmvtnorm polynom purrr shinystatstibble tsfeatures tsibbleutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rlang rmarkdown shinydashboard

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Feng Li

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.3 (2023)

Author

Author

Contributor

Contributor

Previously maintained by Yanfei Kang (0.2.0 to 1.0.0).

Releases (7)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.8Latest
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2026-02-26 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-04-10
1.0.7
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2024-04-10 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-02-21
issues were not corrected in time
1.0.5
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2023-08-28 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-03-27
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2023-03-27 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-03-10
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.0
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2022-01-14 · diff ↗ ·
removed 6 exports
arinf, fitness_ts, ga_ts, nsdiffs1, rlnorm2, run_gratis_app

added 7 exports
%>%, arima_model, ets_model, generate, generate_target, mar_model, simulate_target
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.1
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2020-10-08 · diff ↗

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-08-03
Total releases: 7 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 1.2 MB

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Time Series Analysis

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gratis version 1.0.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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