R Observatory: Metrics for specs version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

specs

1.0.1Package record

Single-Equation Penalized Error-Correction Selector (SPECS)

0packages depend

6.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Etienne WijlerCRAN page ↗

Implementation of SPECS, your favourite Single-Equation Penalized Error-Correction Selector developed in Smeekes and Wijler (2021) doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2020.07.021. SPECS provides a fully automated estimation procedure for large and potentially (co)integrated datasets. The dataset in levels is converted to a conditional error-correction model, either by the user or by means of the functions included in this package, and various specialised forms of penalized regression can be applied to the model. Automated options for initializing and selecting a sequence of penalties, as well as the construction of penalty weights via an initial estimator, are available. Moreover, the user may choose from a number of pre-specified deterministic configurations to further simplify the model building process.

Install

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

install.packages("specs", 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-specs

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-specs

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-specs

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: 2.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.0.1

READMEYes · 1,614 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 5
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

6.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,132 · ~18/day · ~533/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34630 days

1K90 days

6.4K1 year

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Also on360 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing specs adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 2.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppArmadillo 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Etienne Wijler

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2020)

Stephan Smeekes

Author

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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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2024-02-29
1.0.1Latest
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2024-02-29 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-12-07
email to the maintainer was undeliverable
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2020-07-06
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-07-06
Total releases: 3 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 20 KB / 1 file
Download size: 44 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("specs")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for specs version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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