R Observatory: Metrics for rbi.helpers version 0.4.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rbi.helpers

0.4.1Package record

'rbi' Helper Functions

0packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

17.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Sebastian FunkCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Contains a collection of helper functions to use with 'rbi', the R interface to 'LibBi', described in Murray et al. (2015) doi:10.18637/jss.v067.i10. It contains functions to adapt the proposal distribution and number of particles in particle Markov-Chain Monte Carlo, as well as calculating the Deviance Information Criterion (DIC) and converting between times in 'LibBi' results and R time/dates.

Changes in 0.4.1

fix documentation links leading to CRAN check failures

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("rbi.helpers", 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("sbfnk/rbi")

Development version from sbfnk/rbi. 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-rbi.helpers

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-rbi.helpers

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-rbi.helpers

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-oldrel-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 0.4.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · evaluation depends on the environmentNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Description cites a JSS article

Help pages: 9 (3 internal)
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to rbi.helpers HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,510 · ~9/day · ~265/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28030 days

76690 days

3.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on74 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

epiforecasts/rbi.helpers ↗Organization: epiforecasts

Moved from sbfnk/rbi.helpers.

4Stars

2Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

518Commits

5Commit identities

518 commits · Last activity 2026-08-24 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.4.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.4.1 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 92%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 14
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-05-30 · 42026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

13 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 8 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/sbfnk/rbi.helpers on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct (inherited from sbfnk)

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-24 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 4 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrLint workflow

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rbi.helpers adds 21 packages (15 with compiled code, 24 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

rbi data.table lubridate reshape2Matrix

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

markdown testthat covr stringi knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Sebastian Funk

Author, Maintainer since 0.3.0 (2019)

Releases (6)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2025-09-26 · 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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2023-08-24 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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2022-11-16 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-06-18
0.3.2
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2020-06-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-03-07
depends on archived package 'rbi'
0.3.1
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2019-07-10 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.3.0
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2019-02-22

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-02-22
Total releases: 6 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 127 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rbi.helpers")

Format

Funk, S. (2025). rbi.helpers: 'rbi' Helper Functions (Version 0.4.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rbi.helpers

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rbi.helpers version 0.4.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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