R Observatory: Metrics for prophet version 1.1.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

prophet

1.1.7Package record

Automatic Forecasting Procedure

6packages dependsuggested by 4

140.4Kdownloads / year

76.0%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Cuong DuongCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Implements a procedure for forecasting time series data based on an additive model where non-linear trends are fit with yearly, weekly, and daily seasonality, plus holiday effects. It works best with time series that have strong seasonal effects and several seasons of historical data. Prophet is robust to missing data and shifts in the trend, and typically handles outliers well.

Install

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

install.packages("prophet", 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("facebook/prophet")

Development version from facebook/prophet. 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-prophet

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-prophet

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-prophet

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespaces in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘StanHeaders’ ‘methods’ ‘rstantools’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 11.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-29
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-07-27
NOTE9 OK, 5 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR8 OK, 5 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE9 OK, 5 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.7

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNo

Help pages: 71 (52 internal)
Examples that run: 0%5 never run
Exported functions with examples: 19%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 88%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Quick Start Guide to Using Prophet HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

140.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,165 · ~385/day · ~11.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

9.8K30 days

29.4K90 days

140.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on894 r2u8 autocran10.9K conda_forge281 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

facebook/prophet ↗Organization: facebook

20,440Stars

4,639Forks

450Open issues

5Open PRs

28Releases

867Commits

201Commit identities

forecastingrpython

License file reads as MIT · 867 commits · Last activity 2026-10-13 · +0.2% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 67%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 50
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 4

Stars over time

2025-10-19 · 19,5422026-10-19 · 20,440

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/facebook/prophet on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-05

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

MakefileDockerfile

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2025-12-23
Pull request: opened by its own account
Commits: 1 by its own account

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

26 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing prophet adds 83 packages (45 with compiled code, 77 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (3)

R >= 3.4.0Rcpp rlang

Imports (15)

dplyr dygraphs extraDistr ggplot2gridlubridatemethodsRcppParallel rstan (>= 2.18.1)rstantools scales StanHeadersstatstidyr xts

LinkingTo (6)

BH Rcpp RcppParallel RcppEigen rstan StanHeaders (>= 2.18.0)

Suggests (6)

cmdstanr posterior knitr testthat readr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

6indirect

Imports 6

Suggested by 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Robyn modeltime fable.prophet bayesforecast autoTS promotionImpact

Suggests, most downloaded first

mlr3forecast FinanceGraphs LLMAgentR forecastsuite

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Cuong Duong

Maintainer since 1.1.7 (2026), Author · added in 1.1.7

Ben Letham

Author

Sean Taylor

Author

Previously maintained by Sean Taylor (0.1 to 1.0).

Releases (12)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1.7Latest
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2026-01-22 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
generated_holidays
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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
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0
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2021-03-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
regressor_coefficients
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-04-29
0.6.1
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2020-04-29 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-04-23
check problems were not corrected despite reminders
0.6
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2020-03-03 · diff ↗
0.5
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2019-05-14 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.4
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2018-12-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
add_country_holidays

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0.3.0.1
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2018-06-15 · diff ↗
0.3
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2018-06-02 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
simulated_historical_forecasts

added 4 exports
add_changepoints_to_plot, dyplot.prophet, performance_metrics, plot_cross_validation_metric
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.1
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2017-11-08 · diff ↗
0.2
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2017-09-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
add_regressor, add_seasonality, cross_validation, plot_forecast_component, predictive_samples, simulated_historical_forecasts
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.1
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2017-04-19 · diff ↗
0.1
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2017-02-01
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-02-01
Total releases: 12 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE in 0.6
Additional repositories: stan-dev.r-universe.dev
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 237 KB

Appears in task views

Missing Data Time Series Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("prophet")

Format

Duong, C., Letham, B., & Taylor, S. (2026). prophet: Automatic Forecasting Procedure (Version 1.1.7) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.prophet

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Format

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for prophet version 1.1.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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