R Observatory: Metrics for imputeTS version 3.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

imputeTS

3.4Package record

Time Series Missing Value Imputation

18packages dependsuggested by 8

222.8Kdownloads / year

92.8%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Steffen MoritzCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Imputation (replacement) of missing values in univariate time series. Offers several imputation functions and missing data plots. Available imputation algorithms include: 'Mean', 'LOCF', 'Interpolation', 'Moving Average', 'Seasonal Decomposition', 'Kalman Smoothing on Structural Time Series models', 'Kalman Smoothing on ARIMA models'. Published in Moritz and Bartz-Beielstein (2017) doi:10.32614/RJ-2017-009.

Changes in 3.4

Added ggplot_na_gapsize2 plot (and unit tests). Nice way to illustrate how different NA gapsizes (consecutive NAs in a row) amount for NA totals.
Fix of the CITATION file to comply with newer CRAN rules
Update of ggplot_na_imputations() to avoid using now depreciated ggplot2 options
Update of unit tests for all plotting functions (ggplot_na_...). Now using is_ggplot() to check for correct output. This was necessary because of a major ggplot2 update (switch to s7 classes).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("imputeTS", 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("SteffenMoritz/imputeTS")

Development version from SteffenMoritz/imputeTS. 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-imputets

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-imputeTS

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-imputeTS

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  imputeTS/tests/testthat/test-ggplot_na_distribution.R (.Tsp: 1)
  imputeTS/tests/testthat/test-ggplot_na_distribution2.R (.Tsp: 1)
  imputeTS/tests/testthat/test-ggplot_na_gapsize.R (.Tsp: 1)
  imputeTS/tests/testthat/test-ggplot_na_gapsize2.R (.Tsp: 1)
  imputeTS/tests/testthat/test-ggplot_na_imputations.R (.Tsp: 1)
  imputeTS/inst/doc/gallery_visualizations.R (.Tsp: 1)
'.Tsp' should be changed to 'tsp'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18

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OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.4

READMEYes · 866 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 3.4Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites an R Journal article

Help pages: 39 (17 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%16 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 83%
Return-value docs: 42%
Help pages citing references: 10%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

222.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #792 · ~610/day · ~18.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

20.5K30 days

58.5K90 days

222.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on9.5K r2u7 autocran749 conda_forge219 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

steffenmoritz/imputets ↗Account: SteffenMoritz

175Stars

25Forks

9Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

304Commits

10Commit identities

missing-dataimputationdata-visualizationimputation-algorithmimputetscrantime-series

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 304 commits · Last activity 2025-08-24 · +0.6% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 79
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 1742026-10-19 · 175

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/steffenmoritz/imputets on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-08-24 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-08-24, before release 3.4 (2025-08-25)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing imputeTS adds 41 packages (24 with compiled code, 35 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, colorspace 2.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6

Imports (9)

statsgrDevicesggplot2 ggtext stinepack forecast magrittrmethodsRcpp

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (11)

testthat R.rsp knitr zoo timeSeries tis xts tibble tsibble rmarkdown covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

18direct

0indirect

Imports 18

Suggested by 8

Show all 26 packagesHide all 26 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

imputeTestbench gimme specmine hpiR audrex rrobot cleanTS chopper unfold wired kssa tetragon realTimeloads MissingHandle mvLSWimpute temper organik TrendSLR

Suggests, most downloaded first

naniar tsbox baytrends proteus epimdr2 microinverterdata epimdr TSGenerator

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Steffen Moritz

Sebastian Gatscha

Author · added in 3.0

Ron Hause

Contributor · added in 3.3

Earo Wang

Contributor · added in 3.1

Releases (21)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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ggplot_na_gapsize2
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ggplot_na_distribution, ggplot_na_gapsize, ggplot_na_imputations, ggplot_na_intervals
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2019-07-01 · diff ↗ ·
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na_interpolation, na_kalman, na_locf, na_ma, na_mean, na_random, na_remove, na_replace, na_seadec, na_seasplit
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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vis.barMissing, vis.imputations, vis.missing

added 7 exports
na.kalman, na.ma, plotNA.distribution, plotNA.distributionBar, plotNA.gapsize, plotNA.imputations, statsNA
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-07-22
Total releases: 21 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6
Bundled data: 574 KB / 6 files
Download size: 2.1 MB

Appears in task views

Missing Data Time Series Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("imputeTS")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for imputeTS version 3.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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