R Observatory: Metrics for jagstargets version 1.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

jagstargets

1.2.2Package record

Targets for JAGS Pipelines

0packages depend

7.3Kdownloads / year

7.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by William Michael LandauCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Bayesian data analysis usually incurs long runtimes and cumbersome custom code. A pipeline toolkit tailored to Bayesian statisticians, the 'jagstargets' R package is leverages 'targets' and 'R2jags' to ease this burden. 'jagstargets' makes it super easy to set up scalable JAGS pipelines that automatically parallelize the computation and skip expensive steps when the results are already up to date. Minimal custom code is required, and there is no need to manually configure branching, so usage is much easier than 'targets' alone. For the underlying methodology, please refer to the documentation of 'targets' doi:10.21105/joss.02959 and 'JAGS' (Plummer 2003) https://www.r-project.org/conferences/DSC-2003/Proceedings/Plummer.pdf.

Changes in 1.2.2

Use qs2.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("jagstargets", 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("ropensci/jagstargets")

Development version from ropensci/jagstargets. 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-jagstargets

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-jagstargets

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-jagstargets

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: 2.4 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-02

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ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 2 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2.2Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 12 (5 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%7 run in a plain check (5 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 70%
Documented parameters: 91%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

7.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,236 · ~20/day · ~612/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

42530 days

1.2K90 days

7.3K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/jagstargets ↗Organization: ropensci

11Stars

7Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

11Releases

253Commits

6Commit identities

rrstatsreproducibilityhigh-performance-computingbayesianjagsrjagsstatistics

253 commits · Last activity 2024-12-03 · Default branch at 1.2.3, ahead of CRAN 1.2.2 (checked 2026-10-25) · Discussions: 4 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-30 · 112026-07-07 · 11

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

15 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/jagstargets on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (4)

Code of conduct (inherited from ropensci)Contributing guideIssue templatesPR template

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2021-08-03

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Research and citation (2)

codemeta.jsonZenodo

Lint, format, editor (3)

lintrLint workflowRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing jagstargets adds 54 packages (31 with compiled code, 39 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, igraph 4.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (17)

coda fst posterior purrr qs2 R2jags rjags rlang (>= 0.4.10)secretbasestatstargets tarchetypes tibble tidyselecttoolsutilswithr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

dplyr fs knitr qs (>= 0.23.2)R.utils rmarkdown testthat (>= 3.0.0)tidyr visNetwork

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

William Michael Landau

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.1 (2021)

Eli Lilly and Company

Copyright holder

David Lawrence Miller

Reviewer

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Landau

no longer listed · 1.0.1 to 1.2.2

Miller

no longer listed · 1.0.1 to 1.2.2

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Package metadata

First published: 2021-12-03
Total releases: 8 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 469 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("jagstargets")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.21105/joss.03877.

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 jagstargets version 1.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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