R Observatory: Metrics for msm version 1.8.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

msm

1.8.2

Multi-State Markov and Hidden Markov Models in Continuous Time

82packages depend

263.4Kdownloads / year

86.0%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Christopher JacksonFirst published 2002-11-0888 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Functions for fitting continuous-time Markov and hidden Markov multi-state models to longitudinal data. Designed for processes observed at arbitrary times in continuous time (panel data) but some other observation schemes are supported. Both Markov transition rates and the hidden Markov output process can be modelled in terms of covariates, which may be constant or piecewise-constant in time.

Install

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

install.packages("msm", 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("chjackson/msm")

Development version from chjackson/msm. 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-msm

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-msm

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-msm

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 7.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.20

86.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 89%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 90%
References docs: 36%

Downloads

263.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #874 · ~722/day · ~22K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

15.3K30 days

53.5K90 days

263.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on5.4K r2u102 autocran6.9K conda_forge490 bioconda105 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ chjackson/msm

68Stars

19Forks

18Open issues

1Open PRs

5Releases

210Commits

7Contributors

210 commits · Last activity 2026-08-12

Issues over time

2026-07-14 · 182026-08-13 · 18

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/chjackson/msm on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Coverage (1)

Codecov

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

survivalmvtnorm expm generics tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

mstate minqa doParallel foreach numDeriv testthat flexsurv covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

82direct

40indirect

and 34 more packages.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Christopher Jackson

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.1.0

Authors (1)

Christopher Jackson

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.1.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Christopher H. Jackson

no longer listed · 0.1 to 0.4.1

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2002-11-08
Total releases: 88 / 24 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Bundled data: 93 KB / 3 files
Download size: 972 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Jackson, C. (2024). msm: Multi-State Markov and Hidden Markov Models in Continuous Time (Version 1.8.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.msm

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for msm version 1.8.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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