R Observatory: Metrics for growthrate version 1.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

growthrate

1.3Package record

Bayesian reconstruction of growth velocity

0packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ian W. McKeagueCRAN page ↗

A nonparametric empirical Bayes method for recovering gradients (or growth velocities) from observations of smooth functions (e.g., growth curves) at isolated time points.

Install

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

install.packages("growthrate", 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-growthrate

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-growthrate

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-growthrate

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Ian W. McKeague <im2131@columbia.edu>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Sara",
                      family = "Lopez-Pintado",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = c("Ian", "W."),
                      family = "McKeague",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "im2131@columbia.edu"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

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

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 10includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 25%1 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 50%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,371 · ~7/day · ~212/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

23330 days

71390 days

2.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on67 r2u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing growthrate adds 3 packages (2 with compiled code, 1.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: mvtnorm 1.0 MB, lpSolve 457 KB, clime 7.8 KB.

Depends (3)

Matrixclime mvtnorm

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (2)

Sara Lopez-Pintado

Ian W. McKeague

Maintainer since 1.3 (2014), previously Yang Hu (1.0 to 1.2)

Releases (4)

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Package metadata

First published: 2011-09-07
Total releases: 4 / 15 yrs
License: GPL-3 | file LICENSE OSI
Bundled data: 3.7 KB / 1 file
Download size: 25 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("growthrate")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for growthrate version 1.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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