R Observatory: Metrics for rvec version 1.0.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rvec

1.0.5Package record

Vectors Representing Random Variables

2packages depend

3.3Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by John BryantCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Random vectors, called rvecs. An rvec holds multiple draws, but tries to behave like a standard R vector, including working well in data frames. Rvecs are useful for analysing output from a simulation or a Bayesian analysis.

Changes in 1.0.5

New functions

Added extract_draws() for selection by index, including repeated indices, and thin_draws() for random selection without replacement in original order.
Added draws_any_na(), draws_all_na(), draws_any_infinite(), draws_all_infinite(), draws_any_finite(), and draws_all_finite() to check missingness and finiteness across draws for each element.
pmin() and pmax() now accept rvecs in any argument position for elementwise bounds and comparisons within each draw. Calls without rvecs retain base R behaviour.
which.min() and which.max() now find the first extreme position within each draw. Empty rvecs return empty index rvecs; nonempty draws with no valid index return NA with one summary warning per call. Ordinary inputs retain base R behaviour.

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Constructors

new_rvec_chr(), new_rvec_dbl(), new_rvec_int(), and new_rvec_lgl() now accept a scalar value to fill all elements and draws, including NA. Existing defaults are unchanged.

Summaries

draws_ci() now accepts point = "mean" to report a mean point estimate; the default remains point = "median" and interval limits are unchanged.
min(), max(), and range() now summarise elements independently within each draw, including multiple arguments and missing-value handling.
quantile() now calculates quantiles independently within each draw, preserving base R's probability, missing-value, naming, and algorithm options.

Bug fixes

rank() now preserves fractional average ranks for tied values instead of failing when converting them to integers. Logical rvecs also use a compatible ranking method, and singleton and empty inputs retain their original draw counts.

Documentation

Improved documentation for draw summaries and resolved a roxygen warning about matrix multiplication methods while retaining support for R < 4.3.

Clarifying interface

Internal functions now enforce the (previously implicit) constraint that rvecs must have at least one draw. Rvecs of length 0 (ie with 1+ columns but 0 rows internally) continue to be allowed.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("rvec", 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("bayesiandemography/rvec")

Development version from bayesiandemography/rvec. 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-rvec

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-rvec

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-rvec

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: 6.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

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Documentation

In release 1.0.5

READMEYes · 98 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.5Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 50includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%47 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 91%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Package rvec

How these are measured

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,747 · ~9/day · ~272/mo

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46330 days

96490 days

3.3K1 year

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Repository

bayesiandemography/rvec ↗Organization: bayesiandemography

2Stars

0Forks

10Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

193Commits

1Commit identities

193 commits · Last activity 2026-10-01

Responsiveness

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PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 79
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-01-20 · 22026-07-07 · 2

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PracticesBeta

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

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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 (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-02 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-02

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CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rvec adds 13 packages (9 with compiled code, 4.4 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (14)

cli gluegraphicsgrDeviceslifecycleMatrixmatrixStatsmethodsrlangstatstibble tidyselectutilsvctrs

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

bookdown covr dplyr ggplot2 knitr rmarkdown testthat tidyr withr

Enhances (0)

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Reverse dependencies

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People (2)

John Bryant

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.6 (2023)

Bayesian Demography Limited

Copyright holder

Releases (6)

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1.0.5Latest
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2026-10-02 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 12 exports
draws_all_finite, draws_all_infinite, draws_all_na, draws_any_finite, draws_any_infinite, draws_any_na, extract_draws, pmax, pmin, thin_draws, which.max, which.min
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.1
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2026-02-15 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2025-12-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
draws_cv, draws_sd, draws_var, new_rvec_chr, new_rvec_dbl, new_rvec_int, new_rvec_lgl, pool_draws
0.0.8
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2025-07-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
prob
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.0.7
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2024-09-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
draws_max, draws_min, extract_draw, new_rvec
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.0.6
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2023-11-08
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-11-08
Total releases: 6 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Bundled data: 175 KB / 2 files
Download size: 429 KB

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Bryant, J., & Bayesian Demography Limited. (2026). rvec: Vectors Representing Random Variables (Version 1.0.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rvec

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rvec version 1.0.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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