R Observatory: Metrics for midasr version 0.9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

midasr

0.9Package record

Mixed Data Sampling Regression

0packages depend

8Kdownloads / year

49.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Vaidotas Zemlys-BalevičiusCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Methods and tools for mixed frequency time series data analysis. Allows estimation, model selection and forecasting for MIDAS regressions.

Changes in 0.9

Bugfix release to accomodate links in help pages

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("midasr", 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("mpiktas/midasr")

Development version from mpiktas/midasr. 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-midasr

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-midasr

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-midasr

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: 5.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.9

READMEYes · 181 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 0.9Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 94 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 90%36 run in a plain check · 4 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 48%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 12%

Also includes 8 demo scripts (run with demo())

How these are measured

Downloads

8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,636 · ~22/day · ~666/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

62730 days

1.8K90 days

8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on100 r2u6 autocran150 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

mpiktas/midasr ↗Organization: mpiktas

82Stars

32Forks

21Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

522Commits

2Commit identities

522 commits · Last activity 2025-04-07 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 91%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 15
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-10-23 · 792026-07-07 · 82

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mpiktas/midasr on 2026-10-21.

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)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2019-01-02

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Automation and maintenance (1)

pre-commit

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (3)

lintrLint workflowRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing midasr adds 45 packages (25 with compiled code, 32 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, optimx 2.2 MB, nloptr 2.1 MB.

Depends (4)

R >= 2.11.0sandwich optimx quantreg

Imports (11)

MASSnumDerivMatrixforecast zoostatsgraphicsutilsFormula texregmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat lubridate xts

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 (2)

Vaidotas Zemlys-Balevičius

Maintainer, Author · added in 0.7

Virmantas Kvedaras

Author

Maintainer since 0.1 (2013)

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Vaidotas Zemlys

no longer listed · 0.1 to 0.6

Vaidotas Zemlys-Balevicius

no longer listed · 0.8

Releases (9)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.9Latest
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2025-04-07 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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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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2021-02-23 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.7
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2019-03-05 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
midas_r_simple

added 18 exports
extract.midas_r, lstr, midas_lstr_plain, midas_lstr_sim, midas_mmm_plain, midas_mmm_sim, midas_nlpr, midas_pl_plain, midas_pl_sim, midas_qr, midas_r_plain, midas_si_plain, midas_si_sim, midas_sp, mlsd, mmm, plot_lstr, plot_sp
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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2016-08-08 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.5
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2015-07-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
genexp, genexp_gradient

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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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2015-03-10 · diff ↗ ·
removed 20 exports
almonp.gradient, forecast.midas_r, gompertzp.gradient, hAh.test, hAhr.test, harstep.gradient, lcauchyp.gradient, midas.auto.sim, midas.sim, midas_coef, mls_coef, nakagamip.gradient, nbeta.gradient, nbetaMT.gradient, nealmon.gradient, polystep.gradient, simplearma.sim, weight_coef, weight_names, weight_param

added 16 exports
almonp_gradient, gompertzp_gradient, hAh_test, hAhr_test, harstep_gradient, lcauchyp_gradient, midas_auto_sim, midas_sim, nakagamip_gradient, nbetaMT_gradient, nbeta_gradient, nealmon_gradient, plot_midas_coef, polystep_gradient, simulate, update_weights
0.3
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2014-04-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
harstep, harstep.gradient, midas_r_np, midas_r_simple
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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2014-01-07 · diff ↗
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2013-10-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published: 2013-10-10
Total releases: 9 / 13 yrs
License: GPL-2 | MIT + file LICENCE OSI · relicensed from MIT + file LICENCE in 0.3
Minimum R: ≥ 2.11.0
Bundled data: 71 KB / 8 files
Download size: 172 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("midasr")

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

It points to 10.18637/jss.v072.i04.

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 midasr version 0.9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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