R Observatory: Metrics for palsr version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

palsr

0.1.0

Projected Actor Locations for Spatial Interaction Modeling

0packages depend

310downloads / year

94.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Bruce A. DesmaraisFirst published 2026-07-021 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Implements the Projected Actor Locations (PALS) method for spatial modeling of dyadic interactions between geographically mobile actors, as described in Kim, Liu and Desmarais (2023) doi:10.1017/psrm.2022.6. PALS applies exponential-smoothing weights to the spatiotemporal histories of a focal actor and its interaction partners ("alters") to project the location of future interactions. The package provides projection, maximum-similarity parameter estimation by minimizing great-circle (Haversine) prediction error, nonparametric bootstrap with multiple-imputation (Rubin's Rules) pooling, dyadic distance covariate construction, visualization, and a simulated example dataset of subnational conflict.

Install

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

install.packages("palsr", 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("bdesmarais/palsr")

Development version from bdesmarais/palsr. 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-palsr

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-palsr

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-palsr

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.33

94.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-03
9 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 466 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 77%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 13%

Downloads

310

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,208 · ~1/day · ~26/mo

Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ bdesmarais/palsr

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0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

25Commits

1Contributors

25 commits · Last activity 2026-07-02

Releases over time

2026-06-23 · 12026-07-07 · 1

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/bdesmarais/palsr on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (2)

Rcppstats

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (5)

testthat knitr rmarkdown mice ggplot2

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Bruce A. Desmarais

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Bruce A. Desmarais

Author, Maintainer

Sangyeon Kim

Author

Howard Liu

Author

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

0.1.0Latest
2026-07-02 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-07-02
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 34 KB / 2 files
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

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citation("palsr")

Format

Desmarais, B. A., Kim, S., & Liu, H. (2026). palsr: Projected Actor Locations for Spatial Interaction Modeling (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.palsr

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for palsr version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-13. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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