R Observatory: Metrics for sae2 version 1.2-2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sae2

1.2-2Package record

Small Area Estimation: Time-Series Models

0packages depend

2.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Robert FayCRAN page ↗

Time series area-level models for small area estimation. The package supplements the functionality of the sae package. Specifically, it includes EBLUP fitting of the Rao-Yu model in the original form without a spatial component. The package also offers a modified ("dynamic") version of the Rao-Yu model, replacing the assumption of stationarity. Both univariate and multivariate applications are supported. Of particular note is the allowance for covariance of the area-level sample estimates over time, as encountered in rotating panel designs such as the U.S. National Crime Victimization Survey or present in a time-series of 5-year estimates from the American Community Survey. Key references to the methods include J.N.K. Rao and I. Molina (2015, ISBN:9781118735787), J.N.K. Rao and M. Yu (1994) doi:10.2307/3315407, and R.E. Fay and R.A. Herriot (1979) doi:10.1080/01621459.1979.10482505.

Changes in 1.2-2

The argument TI in the functions eblupDyn, eblupRY, and dynRYfit has a new downward-compatible generalization. TI of length 1 functions as previously. TI with a length greater than 1 indexes the years in the series to be included in the model, supporting a model with some breaks in the series.
The parameter y.scale, if specified and not equal to 1, previously caused incorrect estimation of the mse.
Minor changes have been made to the default convergence criterion, and more detailed error messages are provided from 1.2-1.

From inst/NEWS.Rd in the release

Install

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

install.packages("sae2", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-sae2

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-sae2

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-sae2

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: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.2-2

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · mentions 1.2-2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 50%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,262 · ~8/day · ~243/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

58830 days

1.3K90 days

2.9K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing sae2 adds 7 packages (4 with compiled code, 6.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: survey 2.3 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppArmadillo 1.0 MB.

Depends (4)

R >= 2.14.0MASSsurveystats

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

sae

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Robert Fay

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.2-1

Mamadou Diallo

Author

Maintainer since 0.1-1 (2015)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Robert E. Fay

no longer listed · 0.1-1 to 1.0-1

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-01-26
Total releases: 4 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.14.0
Download size: 27 KB

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citation("sae2")

Format

Fay, R., & Diallo, M. (2025). sae2: Small Area Estimation: Time-Series Models (Version 1.2-2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sae2

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sae2 version 1.2-2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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