R Observatory: Metrics for piar version 0.11.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

piar

0.11.0Package record

Price Index Aggregation

0packages dependsuggested by 1

6.1Kdownloads / year

93.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Steve MartinCRAN page ↗Codeberg ↗Issues ↗

Most price indexes are made with a two-step procedure, where period-over-period elementary indexes are first calculated for a collection of elementary aggregates at each point in time, and then aggregated according to a price index aggregation structure. These indexes can then be chained together to form a time series that gives the evolution of prices with respect to a fixed base period. This package contains a collection of functions that revolve around this work flow, making it easy to build standard price indexes, and implement the methods described by Balk (2008, doi:10.1017/CBO9780511720758), von der Lippe (2007, doi:10.3726/978-3-653-01120-3), and the CPI manual (2020, doi:10.5089/9781484354841.069) and PPI manual (2004, doi:10.5089/9781589063044.069) for bilateral price indexes.

Changes in 0.11.0

Significant changes

License has changed from MIT to GPL (>= 3).
Bumped minimum version of R to >= 4.4.
Code is now hosted on codeberg.

Improvements

Replacing index values is now faster.
It is now possible to duplicate levels/time periods when subscripting an index

by passing a named vector with new level/time periods levels. See

vignette("multiple-dimensions") for an example of how this can be useful.

The Matrix package is no longer a hard dependency.
Added a lag() method for index objects.

Bug fixes

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Tables in vignettes are now rendered correctly.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("piar", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-piar

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-piar

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-piar

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: 2.2 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.11.0

READMEYes · 410 wordsVignettesYes · 13 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.11.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 46 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%38 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 85%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 26% with a bibliography file

Vignettes (13)

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How these are measured

Downloads

6.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,332 · ~17/day · ~505/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

49130 days

1.1K90 days

6.1K1 year

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Also on108 r2u5 autocran1.7K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

codeberg.org/marberts/piar ↗

0Stars

0Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

craninflationrrstatsstatistics

Last activity 2026-10-12

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: GitHub only
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: GitHub only

Stars over time

2025-07-25 · 52026-10-21 · 0

Earlier repositories

github.com/marberts/piar · last recorded on 2026-10-11

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Repository codeberg.org/marberts/piar is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing piar adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.4

Imports (2)

statsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

data.tree litedownMatrixrbibutils rsmatrix spelling sps tinytest treemap

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

rsmatrix

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Steve Martin

Releases (11)

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0.11.0Latest
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2026-10-12 · current release · diff ↗ ·
listed once in CRAN's queue
Seen in one reading of CRAN's incoming queue, at 2026-10-12 01:57 UTC, so it stayed less than the time between readings.
0.10.1
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2026-07-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 12 exports
back_period, emean, geks_index, gmean, hb_transform, nested_gmean, outliers, scale_weights, splice_index, transmute_weights, transmute_weights2, update_weights
0.9.0
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2026-05-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
combine_classifications, impute_prices
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.8.3
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2025-09-17 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.8.2
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2025-03-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
contrib<-, elementary_index, set_contrib, set_contrib_from_index, set_levels, set_time, set_weights, split_classification
0.8.1
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2024-09-12 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
carry_backwards, is_aggregate_index

added 4 exports
carry_backward, contrib2DF, interact_classifications, ntime
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.7.0
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2024-03-08 · diff ↗
0.6.0
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2023-11-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
time<-, carry_backwards, is_direct_index
0.5.0
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2023-08-10 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
is_chain_index

added 3 exports
as_aggregation_structure, is_aggregation_structure, weights<-
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.4.0
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2022-04-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
is_chainable_index
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.3.2
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2022-02-07

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R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Across CRAN, the median accepted release of the past year spent 23 hours in the queue, 90% under 11 days.How queue time is measured

Package metadata

First published: 2022-02-07
Total releases: 11 / 4 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI · relicensed from MIT + file LICENSE in 0.11.0
Minimum R: ≥ 4.4
Bundled data: 1.3 KB / 4 files
Download size: 281 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("piar")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.21105/joss.06781.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for piar version 0.11.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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