R Observatory: Metrics for mlts version 2.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mlts

2.0.1

Multilevel Latent Time Series Models with 'R' and 'Stan'

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

2.1%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Kenneth KoslowskiFirst published 2024-06-273 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Fit multilevel manifest or latent time-series models, including popular Dynamic Structural Equation Models (DSEM). The models can be set up and modified with user-friendly functions and are fit to the data using 'Stan' for Bayesian inference. Path models and formulas for user-defined models can be easily created with functions using 'knitr'. Asparouhov, Hamaker, & Muthen (2018) doi:10.1080/10705511.2017.1406803.

Install

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

install.packages("mlts", 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("munchfab/mlts")

Development version from munchfab/mlts. 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-mlts

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-mlts

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 25.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.03

2.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

17

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
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NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-29
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-07-27
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 3 earlier snapshots

NOTE2026-04-22
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ERROR2026-04-18
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 999 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 8%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 13%

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,001 · ~8/day · ~251/mo

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20230 days

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Repository

GitHub ↗ munchfab/mlts

9Stars

5Forks

3Open issues

1Open PRs

2Releases

418Commits

6Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 418 commits · Last activity 2026-08-05 · +12.5% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-08-22 · 22026-08-04 · 9

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/munchfab/mlts on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (17)

cowplot dplyr ggplot2methodsmvtnorm pdftools Rcpp RcppParallel rlang rmarkdown rstan rstantoolsstatsshape diagramgrDevicesgraphics

LinkingTo (6)

BH Rcpp RcppEigen RcppParallel rstan StanHeaders (>= 2.18.0)

Suggests (2)

knitr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Kenneth Koslowski

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (4)

Kenneth Koslowski

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Jana Holtmann

Author

Tobias Koch

Author

Fabian Münch

Author

Copyright holders (1)

Kenneth Koslowski

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

3 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.0.1Latest
2025-12-10 · current release · diff ↗
2.0.0
2025-12-08 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.0
2024-06-27
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-06-27
Total releases: 3 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 10 KB / 2 files
Download size: 2.9 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("mlts")

Format

Koslowski, K., Holtmann, J., Koch, T., & Münch, F. (2025). mlts: Multilevel Latent Time Series Models with 'R' and 'Stan' (Version 2.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.mlts

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mlts version 2.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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