R Observatory: Metrics for starvars version 1.1.11

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

starvars

1.1.11Package record

Vector Logistic Smooth Transition Models Estimation and Prediction

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Andrea BucciCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Allows the user to estimate a vector logistic smooth transition autoregressive model via maximum log-likelihood or nonlinear least squares. It further permits to test for linearity in the multivariate framework against a vector logistic smooth transition autoregressive model with a single transition variable. The estimation method is discussed in Terasvirta and Yang (2014, doi:10.1108/S0731-9053(2013)0000031008). Also, realized covariances can be constructed from stock market prices or returns, as explained in Andersen et al. (2001, doi:10.1016/S0304-405X(01)00055-1).

Install

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

install.packages("starvars", 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("andbucci/starvars")

Development version from andbucci/starvars. 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-starvars

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-starvars

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-starvars

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: 2.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.11

READMEYes · 78 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 18 (2 internal)
Examples that run: 67%4 run in a plain check · 2 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 83%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 56%

How these are measured

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,544 · ~8/day · ~251/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

32130 days

80790 days

3K1 year

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Also on92 r2u12 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

andbucci/starvars ↗Account: andbucci

5Stars

5Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

113Commits

1Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-2.0 · 113 commits · Last activity 2022-01-17 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (1.1.10) than CRAN on 2026-10-11

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 0%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 130

Stars over time

2024-11-23 · 52026-07-07 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/andbucci/starvars on 2026-10-11.

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (1)

revdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing starvars adds 112 packages (64 with compiled code, 94 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (13)

MASSks zoo doSNOW foreachmethodsmatrixcalc optimParallelparallelvars xts lessR quantmod

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

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People & History

People (4)

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Releases (10)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1.11Latest
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2026-01-26 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
logLik.VLSTAR
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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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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.1.10
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2022-01-17 · diff ↗
1.1.9
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2021-11-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
logLik.VLSTAR
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-10-29
1.1.8
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2021-10-29 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-10-05
check problems were not corrected in time
1.1.7
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2021-09-17 · diff ↗
1.1.5
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2021-09-13 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
pattern:^[[:alpha:]]+

added 6 exports
VLSTAR, VLSTARjoint, lrvarbart, multiCUMSUM, rcov, startingVLSTAR
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2021-01-11 · diff ↗
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2020-09-17 · diff ↗

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-05-04
Total releases: 10 / 6 yrs
License: GPL
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Bundled data: 205 KB / 3 files
Download size: 246 KB

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("starvars")

Format

Bucci, A., Faragalli, A., Palomba, G., & Rossi, E. (2026). starvars: Vector Logistic Smooth Transition Models Estimation and Prediction (Version 1.1.11) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.starvars

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for starvars version 1.1.11 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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