R Observatory: Metrics for palm version 1.1.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

palm

1.1.7Package record

Fitting Point Process Models via the Palm Likelihood

0packages depend

2.9Kdownloads / year

83.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ben C. StevensonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Functions to fit point process models using the Palm likelihood. First proposed by Tanaka, Ogata, and Stoyan (2008) DOI:10.1002/bimj.200610339, maximisation of the Palm likelihood can provide computationally efficient parameter estimation for point process models in situations where the full likelihood is intractable. This package is chiefly focused on Neyman-Scott point processes, but can also fit the void processes proposed by Jones-Todd et al. (2019) DOI:10.1002/sim.8046. The development of this package was motivated by the analysis of capture-recapture surveys on which individuals cannot be identified---the data from which can conceptually be seen as a clustered point process (Stevenson, Borchers, and Fewster, 2019 DOI:10.1111/biom.12983). As such, some of the functions in this package are specifically for the estimation of cetacean density from two-camera aerial surveys.

Install

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

install.packages("palm", 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("b-steve/palm")

Development version from b-steve/palm. 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-palm

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-palm

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-palm

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: 3.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-25
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.7

READMEYes · 279 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 16 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 89%8 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 38%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,865 · ~8/day · ~245/mo

Releases R versions

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31430 days

92090 days

2.9K1 year

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Also on362 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

b-steve/palm ↗Account: b-steve

2Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

387Commits

2Commit identities

387 commits · Last activity 2026-08-19

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2022-07-24 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/b-steve/palm on 2026-10-18.

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing palm adds 5 packages (4 with compiled code, 3.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, mvtnorm 1.0 MB, gsl 227 KB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.0.0Rcpp

Imports (5)

gslmethodsminqa mvtnorm R6

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (1)

testthat

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 (1)

Ben C. Stevenson

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.1.7

Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2017)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Ben Stevenson

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.1.6

Releases (9)

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-01-30
Total releases: 9 / 9 yrs
License: GPL
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Bundled data: 397 KB / 2 files
Download size: 50 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("palm")

Format

Stevenson, B. C. (2026). palm: Fitting Point Process Models via the Palm Likelihood (Version 1.1.7) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.palm

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 palm version 1.1.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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