R Observatory: Metrics for hero version 0.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

hero

0.6

Spatio-Temporal (Hero) Sandwich Smoother

0packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

56.3%test coverage

0/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Joshua FrenchFirst published 2018-10-303 releasesCRAN page ↗

An implementation of the sandwich smoother proposed in Fast Bivariate Penalized Splines by Xiao et al. (2012) doi:10.1111/rssb.12007. A hero is a specific type of sandwich. Dictionary.com (2018) https://www.dictionary.com describes a hero as: a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes. Also implements the spatio-temporal sandwich smoother of French and Kokoszka (2021) doi:10.1016/j.spasta.2020.100413.

Install

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

install.packages("hero", 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-hero

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-hero

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-hero

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

Health

CRAN checks

13NOTE

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
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NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64
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NOTE r-release-linux-x86_64
NOTE r-release-macos-arm64
NOTE r-release-macos-x86_64
NOTE r-release-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.32

56.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-06-09
0 OK · 13 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
0 OK · 12 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-18
0 OK · 14 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-16
0 OK · 12 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
0 OK · 14 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 9 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 28%

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,135 · ~7/day · ~206/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

24130 days

72990 days

2.5K1 year

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Also on139 r2u16 autocran

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (7)

Matrixsplinesoptimx pbapply sf sp fields

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

autoimage devtools fda igraph testthat future.apply Rmpi

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (0)

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Listed in earlier versions (1)

Joshua French

no longer listed · 0.0.3 to 0.6

Package Timeline

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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-10-30
Total releases: 3 / 8 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 1.6 MB / 3 files
Download size: 1.6 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for hero version 0.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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