R Observatory: Metrics for rstantools version 2.7.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rstantools

2.7.0

Tools for Developing R Packages Interfacing with 'Stan'

158packages depend

2.2Mdownloads / year

10.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Andrew JohnsonFirst published 2016-11-2018 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides various tools for developers of R packages interfacing with 'Stan' https://mc-stan.org, including functions to set up the required package structure, S3 generics and default methods to unify function naming across 'Stan'-based R packages, and vignettes with recommendations for developers.

Install

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

install.packages("rstantools", 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("stan-dev/rstantools")

Development version from stan-dev/rstantools. 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-rstantools

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-rstantools

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-rstantools

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.1 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.84

10.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

6

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-12
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-10
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 88%
References docs: 12%

Downloads

2.2M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #183 · ~5.9K/day · ~180.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

380.5K30 days

1M90 days

2.2M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on13K r2u180 autocran21.2K conda_forge356 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ stan-dev/rstantools

48Stars

24Forks

22Open issues

1Open PRs

16Releases

513Commits

23Contributors

stanr-packagedeveloper-toolsbayesian-data-analysisbayesian-statistics

License GPL-3.0 · 513 commits · Last activity 2026-07-26

Releases over time

2026-07-14 · 152026-07-26 · 16

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/stan-dev/rstantools on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

CRAN-SUBMISSION

Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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Governance and community (1)

Funding

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (6)

descstatsutilsRcpp RcppParallel (>= 5.0.1)QuickJSR

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

rstan usethis testthat knitr pkgbuild pkgload roxygen2 rmarkdown rstudioapi

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

158direct

78indirect

and 110 more packages.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (9)

Maintainer (1)

Andrew Johnson

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.2.0

Authors (4)

Andrew Johnson

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.2.0

Jonah Gabry

Author

Ben Goodrich

Author

Martin Lysy

Author · added in 2.0.0

Contributors (4)

Hamada S. Badr

Contributor · added in 2.2.0

Marco Colombo

Contributor · added in 2.2.0

Stefan Siegert

Contributor · added in 1.5.0

Visruth Srimath Kandali

Contributor · added in 2.6.0

Copyright holders (1)

Trustees of Columbia University

Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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

2.7.0Latest
2026-07-26 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.6.0
2026-01-10 · diff ↗
2.5.0
2025-09-01 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.4.0
2024-01-31 · diff ↗
2.3.1.1
2023-07-18 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.3.1
2023-03-30 · diff ↗
2.3.0
2023-03-09 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.2.0
2022-04-08 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.1.1
2020-07-06 · diff ↗
2.0.0
2020-06-05 · diff ↗

Show 13 earlier events

2.1.0
2020-06-01 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.5.1
2018-08-22 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.5.0
2018-04-17 · diff ↗
1.4.0
2017-12-21 · diff ↗
1.3.0
2017-08-02 · diff ↗
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.2.0
2017-03-17 · diff ↗
1.1.0
2016-12-20 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2016-11-20
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-11-20
Total releases: 18 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 531 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Johnson, A., Badr, H. S., Colombo, M., Columbia University, T. o., Gabry, J., Goodrich, B., Lysy, M., Siegert, S., & Srimath Kandali, V. (2026). rstantools: Tools for Developing R Packages Interfacing with 'Stan' (Version 2.7.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rstantools

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rstantools version 2.7.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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