R Observatory: Metrics for mlVAR version 0.7.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mlVAR

0.7.3Package record

Multi-Level Vector Autoregression

2packages dependsuggested by 1

13.1Kdownloads / year

32.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Sacha EpskampCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Estimates the multi-level vector autoregression model on time-series data. Three network structures are obtained: temporal networks, contemporaneous networks and between-subjects networks.

Changes in 0.7.3

Made the backward-compatibility checks of summary() output robust to rounding-boundary flips: summary.mlVAR rounds to 3 decimals, and ~5e-5 cross-platform optimizer jitter can flip the last printed digit when a value sits near a rounding boundary (observed on CRAN win-builder and Debian: 0.370 vs 0.369). The summary columns are now compared against the fit object itself (rounded identically) instead of 3-dp literals; a separate check pins the Beta standard errors against the 0.6.1 reference. No package code was changed

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("mlVAR", 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("SachaEpskamp/mlVAR")

Development version from SachaEpskamp/mlVAR. 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-mlvar

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-mlVAR

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-mlVAR

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: 6.4 min · r-oldrel-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 0.7.3

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.7.3Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 14
Examples that run: 0%5 never run
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 30%
Help pages citing references: 29%

How these are measured

Downloads

13.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,852 · ~36/day · ~1.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

90830 days

2.5K90 days

13.1K1 year

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Also on821 r2u2 autocran146 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

sachaepskamp/mlvar ↗Account: SachaEpskamp

8Stars

7Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

164Commits

8Commit identities

164 commits · Last activity 2026-07-18 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 88%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 340
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-02-27 · 52026-08-01 · 8

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/sachaepskamp/mlvar on 2026-10-22.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen on or before 2026-02-06
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Commits: at least 42 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.623 commits · Feb to Mar 2026
Claude Fable 515 commits · Jul 2026
Claude Opus 4.84 commits · Jul 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mlVAR adds 107 packages (57 with compiled code, 93 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, MplusAutomation 7.5 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (13)

lme4 arm qgraph dplyr clusterGeneration mvtnorm corpcor abindmethodsparallelMplusAutomation graphicalVAR rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

bootnet

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

funtimes mnet

Suggests, most downloaded first

idiographic

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Sacha Epskamp

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2015)

Laura F. Bringmann

Author

Marie K. Deserno

Author

Jonas M. B. Haslbeck

Contributor · added in 0.6.1

Adela Maria Isvoranu

Contributor · added in 0.7.3

Myrthe Veenman

Contributor · added in 0.5

Releases (16)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.7.3Latest
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2026-03-17 · current release · diff ↗
0.6.1
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2026-03-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
mlGGM, resimulate
0.5.5
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2026-02-06 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.5.2
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2024-02-01 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
mlVARsim0
0.5.1
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2023-05-16 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.5
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2021-10-25 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.4.4
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2019-10-21 · diff ↗
0.4.3
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2019-06-20 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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0.4.2
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2019-01-24 · diff ↗
0.4.1
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2018-08-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
mlVARsample
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.4
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2017-09-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
importMplus
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.3.3
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2017-03-28 · diff ↗
0.3.2
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2016-07-20 · diff ↗
0.3.1
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2016-07-04 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2016-05-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
mlVARsim, mlVARsim0, getNet, mlVARcompare, mlVAR0
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.1.0
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2015-06-10
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-06-10
Total releases: 16 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 92 KB

Appears in task views

Psychometric Models and Methods Time Series Analysis

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citation("mlVAR")

Format

Epskamp, S., Bringmann, L. F., Deserno, M. K., Haslbeck, J. M. B., Isvoranu, A. M., & Veenman, M. (2026). mlVAR: Multi-Level Vector Autoregression (Version 0.7.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.mlVAR

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mlVAR version 0.7.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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