R Observatory: Metrics for prophet version 1.1.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

prophet

1.1.7

Automatic Forecasting Procedure

9packages depend

169.6Kdownloads / year

76.0%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Cuong DuongFirst published 2017-02-0112 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Slowest check: 9.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.81

76.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

17

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-29
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-07-27
10 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-22
9 OK · 5 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
8 OK · 5 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
9 OK · 5 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 88%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

169.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,228 · ~465/day · ~14.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

9.7K30 days

27.1K90 days

169.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on881 r2u37 autocran11K conda_forge137 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ facebook/prophet

20,361Stars

4,637Forks

450Open issues

3Open PRs

27Releases

858Commits

195Contributors

forecastingrpython

License MIT · 858 commits · Last activity 2026-08-15 · +0.3% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-17 · 19,3312026-08-15 · 20,359

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/facebook/prophet on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

MakefileDockerfile

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: copilot on 2025-12-23

copilot

Most recent: copilot on 2025-12-23

Evidence

copilot: on 2025-12-23 · evidence A, PR · sole bot-author seen

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

26 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

9direct

7indirect

Robyn autoTS bayesforecast fable.prophet modeltime promotionImpact FinanceGraphs LLMAgentR mlr3forecast

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Cuong Duong

Maintainer, Author · added in 1.1.7

Authors (3)

Cuong Duong

Maintainer, Author · added in 1.1.7

Ben Letham

Author

Sean Taylor

Author

Package Timeline

12 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1.7Latest
2026-01-22 · current release · diff ↗
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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
2021-03-30 · diff ↗
0.6.1
2020-04-29 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-04-29
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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
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2020-03-03 · diff ↗
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2019-05-14 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2018-12-21 · diff ↗

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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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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
Additional repositories: stan-dev.r-universe.dev
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 237 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Missing Data Time Series Analysis

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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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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for prophet version 1.1.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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