R Observatory: Metrics for rSPDE version 2.6.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rSPDE

2.6.0Package record

Rational Approximations of Fractional Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

4packages dependsuggested by 2

9.1Kdownloads / year

29.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by David BolinCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Functions that compute rational approximations of fractional elliptic stochastic partial differential equations. The package also contains functions for common statistical usage of these approximations. The main references for rSPDE are Bolin, Simas and Xiong (2023) doi:10.1080/10618600.2023.2231051 for the covariance-based method and Bolin and Kirchner (2020) doi:10.1080/10618600.2019.1665537 for the operator-based rational approximation. These can be generated by the citation function in R.

Changes in 2.6.0

Added posterior_crossvalidation() for objects fitted with rspde_lme(). The function mirrors the interface of MetricGraph::posterior_crossvalidation.
Added hybrid.spde(), a new hybrid Whittle-Matern SPDE model with a non-zero deterministic mean.
rspde_lme() now supports hybrid.spde models.
Added rspde.hybrid.matern(), a INLA cgeneric model for the hybrid Whittle-Matern SPDE with alpha = 2.
Added a kappa_mu option that lets the operator applied to the mean use a different range parameter from the one in the covariance. Default (kappa_mu = NULL in hybrid.spde(), separate_kappa_mu = FALSE in rspde.hybrid.matern()) keeps them linked. When enabled, kappa_mu is estimated jointly in rspde_lme and INLA, or can be held fixed via model_options$fix_kappa_mu.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("rSPDE", 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("davidbolin/rSPDE")

Development version from davidbolin/rSPDE. 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-rspde

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-rSPDE

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-rSPDE

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: 9.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-07

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OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.6.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.6.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 105 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 90%55 run in a plain check (10 of them under a condition) · 6 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 60%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 94%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Also includes 1 demo script (run with demo())

Vignettes (1)

rSPDE Package

How these are measured

Downloads

9.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,651 · ~25/day · ~762/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

75030 days

1.8K90 days

9.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on231 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

davidbolin/rspde ↗Account: davidbolin

12Stars

4Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

14Releases

1,775Commits

10Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 1,775 commits · Last activity 2026-09-23 · Default branch at 2.6.0.9001, ahead of CRAN 2.6.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-12 · 122026-07-07 · 12

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/davidbolin/rspde on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-23 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-23

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

25 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rSPDE adds 34 packages (24 with compiled code, 41 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, sp 4.3 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0Matrix

Imports (5)

statsmethodsfmesher lifecycle broom

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (23)

knitr rmarkdown INLA testthat ggplot2latticesplancs optimParallel RSpectra numDeriv inlabru sn viridis doParallel foreach tidyr dplyr GeneralizedHyperbolic gridExtra MetricGraph sf flexiblas withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

Imports 4

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

disaggregation MetricGraph DAST BSSoverSpace

Suggests, most downloaded first

excursions ngme2

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

David Bolin

Maintainer since 0.4.6 (2019), Author

Alexandre Simas

Author · added in 1.0.0

Finn Lindgren

Contributor · added in 1.2.0

Releases (16)

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2.6.0Latest
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2026-08-31 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
hybrid.spde, local_rspde_safe_inla, posterior_crossvalidation, rspde.hybrid.matern, rspde_safe_inla
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.5.2
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2026-01-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
cov_function_mesh, covariance_mesh, make_A
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.5.1
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2025-03-22 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
group_predict

added 2 exports
intrinsic.operators, rspde.intrinsic
2.4.0
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2024-12-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 13 exports
create_train_test_indices, group_predict, matern.rational, matern.rational.cov, matern2d.operators, rSPDE.Ast, rspde.anistropic2d, rspde.intrinsic.matern, rspde.matern1d, rspde.spacetime, spacetime.operators, transform_parameters_anisotropic, transform_parameters_spacetime
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.3.3
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2023-11-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
augment, glance, graph_data_rspde, rSPDE.fem2d, spde.make.A
2.3.2
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2023-07-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
intrinsic.matern.operators, variogram.intrinsic.spde
2.3.1
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2023-05-25 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
matern.loglike

added 1 export
rspde_lme
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.2.0
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2023-04-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
cross_validation
2.1.0
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2023-01-19 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
get.inital.values.rSPDE, get.sparsity.graph.rspde, rspde.precision

added 4 exports
construct.spde.matern.loglike, get.initial.values.rSPDE, gg_df, rspde.metric_graph
1.2.0
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2022-09-16 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
folded.matern.covariance, simulate

added 7 exports
rational.order<-, rational.type<-, folded.matern.covariance.1d, folded.matern.covariance.2d, rSPDE.construct.matern.loglike, rational.order, rational.type
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-01-14

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1.1.1
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2022-01-14 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-01-06
check issues were not corrected in time
1.0.0
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2021-12-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 16 exports
folded.matern.covariance, get.inital.values.rSPDE, get.sparsity.graph.rspde, precision, rSPDE.matern.loglike, rspde.make.A, rspde.make.index, rspde.matern, rspde.matern.precision, rspde.matern.precision.integer, rspde.matern.precision.integer.opt, rspde.matern.precision.opt, rspde.mesh.project, rspde.mesh.projector, rspde.precision, rspde.result
0.6.3
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2021-10-14 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.6.2
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2021-02-23 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.4.8
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2020-03-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
require.nowarnings
0.4.6
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2019-08-20
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-08-20
Total releases: 16 / 7 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) | file LICENSE OSI
Additional repositories: inla.r-inla-download.org
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 3.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("rSPDE")

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

It points to 10.1080/10618600.2023.2231051, 10.1080/10618600.2019.1665537.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rSPDE version 2.6.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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