R Observatory: Metrics for nlist version 0.5.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

nlist

0.5.0Package record

Lists of Numeric Atomic Objects

2packages dependsuggested by 1

5.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Joe ThorleyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Poisson Consulting

Create and manipulate numeric list ('nlist') objects. An 'nlist' is an S3 list of uniquely named numeric objects. An numeric object is an integer or double vector, matrix or array. An 'nlists' object is a S3 class list of 'nlist' objects with the same names, dimensionalities and typeofs. Numeric list objects are of interest because they are the raw data inputs for analytic engines such as 'JAGS', 'STAN' and 'TMB'. Numeric lists objects, which are useful for storing multiple realizations of of simulated data sets, can be converted to coda::mcmc and coda::mcmc.list objects.

Changes in 0.5.0

Breaking changes

tidy() now defaults to simplify = TRUE for the nlists, mcmc and mcmc.list methods (#61).
Functions and arguments that were previously warn-deprecated are now defunct and error (#56):
is.natomic(), is.nlist() and is.nlists(), replaced by is_numeric(), is_nlist() and is_nlists().
as.nlist() and as.nlists(), replaced by as_nlist() and as_nlists().
aggregate.nlist() and aggregate.nlists(), replaced by estimates.nlist() and estimates.nlists().
The terms argument of pars(), replaced by terms::pars_terms(as_term(x)).
The iterations and parameters arguments of subset(), replaced by iters and pars.

New features

tidy() gains a directional_information argument specifying whether the svalue column is calculated with extras::directional_information() instead of extras::svalue() (#51).
The default value of directional_information is currently FALSE but will change to TRUE in a future release; leaving it unset is soft-deprecated.

Bug fixes

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subset.nlists() now range-checks the iters argument (#55).

Documentation

Documented the sort() methods and added missing examples for the mcmc and mcmc.list methods (#60).
Added return values to the documentation for the as_term() methods.

Minor improvements

extras (>= 0.10.0) is now required.
Replaced the deprecated structure() special names .Names, .Dim and .Dimnames with names, dim and dimnames, which R-devel now notes.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("nlist", 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("poissonconsulting/nlist")

Development version from poissonconsulting/nlist. 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-nlist

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-nlist

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-nlist

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-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-05
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.0

READMEYes · 360 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · evaluation depends on the environmentNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 77 (4 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%59 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 79%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 86%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

nlist Objects and Coercions HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

5.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,758 · ~14/day · ~431/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

50830 days

1.4K90 days

5.2K1 year

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Also on136 r2u1 autocran104 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

poissonconsulting/nlist ↗Organization: poissonconsulting

6Stars

1Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

456Commits

7Commit identities

rstatsrnlistnlistsnatomicdata-framecran

456 commits · Last activity 2026-10-13 · Default branch at 0.5.0.9001, ahead of CRAN 0.5.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 97%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 149
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Releases over time

2026-07-14 · 02026-08-30 · 1

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/poissonconsulting/nlist on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (4)

Code of conductContributing guideCODEOWNERSSupport guide

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-13

pkgdown site last built 2026-08-30

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

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CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-06-04
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: at least 19 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Fable 511 commits · Jul 2026
Claude Opus 54 commits · Aug 2026
Claude Opus 4.83 commits · Jun to Jul 2026
Claude Opus 5.51 commit · Oct 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

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing nlist adds 18 packages (8 with compiled code, 5.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB, chk 687 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (12)

abind chk coda extras generics lifecycle purrr rlangstatsterm tibble universals

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

covr knitr mcmcr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

1indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

mcmcr sims

Suggests, most downloaded first

universals

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Joe Thorley

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2020)

Nadine Hussein

Contributor · added in 0.4.0

Kirill Müller

Contributor · added in 0.4.0

Ayla Pearson

Contributor · added in 0.4.0

Poisson Consulting

Copyright holder, Funder

Releases (9)

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0.5.0Latest
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2026-08-27 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.0
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2025-05-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
as.mcmc.list
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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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
0.3.3
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2021-09-02 · diff ↗
0.3.2
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2021-08-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
aggregate
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.1
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2021-02-06 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2020-09-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
pars<-, as_mcmc, as_mcmc_list, bind_iterations, complete_terms
0.2.0
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2020-06-25 · diff ↗ ·
removed 9 exports
as.mcmc.list.nlist, as.mcmc.list.nlists, as.mcmc.nlist, as.mcmc.nlists, chk_natomic, nsams, numericise, numericize, vld_natomic

added 24 exports
as.mcmc, as.term, as_nlist, as_nlists, as_term, as_term_frame, estimates, fill_all, is_nlist, is_nlists, is_numeric, lower, median, npdims, nterms, pars, pdims, pvalue, set_pars, svalue, thin, tidy, upper, zscore
0.1.1
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2020-06-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.0
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2020-01-24

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-01-24
Total releases: 9 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Download size: 68 KB

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citation("nlist")

Format

Thorley, J., Poisson Consulting, Hussein, N., Müller, K., & Pearson, A. (2026). nlist: Lists of Numeric Atomic Objects (Version 0.5.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.nlist

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for nlist version 0.5.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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