R Observatory: Metrics for strand version 0.2.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

strand

0.2.3Package record

A Framework for Investment Strategy Simulation

0packages depend

4.3Kdownloads / year

67.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeff EnosCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides a framework for performing discrete (share-level) simulations of investment strategies. Simulated portfolios optimize exposure to an input signal subject to constraints such as position size and factor exposure. For background see L. Chincarini and D. Kim (2010, ISBN:978-0-07-145939-6) "Quantitative Equity Portfolio Management".

Install

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

install.packages("strand", 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("strand-tech/strand")

Development version from strand-tech/strand. 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-strand

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-strand

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-strand

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: 5.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.3

READMEYes · 560 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 0.2.3Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 14includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 25%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Backtesting with strand

How these are measured

Downloads

4.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,189 · ~12/day · ~359/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

46130 days

1.1K90 days

4.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on112 r2u4 autocran122 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

strand-tech/strand ↗Organization: strand-tech

24Stars

6Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

109Commits

4Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 109 commits · Last activity 2026-01-31 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 75%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 19
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 3

Stars over time

2025-09-23 · 242026-07-07 · 24

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/strand-tech/strand on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Dockerfile

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing strand adds 38 packages (23 with compiled code, 34 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, arrow 4.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (12)

R6MatrixRglpk dplyr tidyr arrow lubridate rlang yaml ggplot2 tibblemethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

testthat knitr rmarkdown shiny shinyFiles shinyjs DT Rsymphony officer flextable plotly

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Jeff Enos

David Kane

Author

Ben Czekanski

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Robert Hoover

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Jack Luby

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Nils Wallin

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Strand Technologies, Inc.

no longer listed · 0.1.1 to 0.1.3

Releases (6)

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R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.3Latest
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2026-01-31 · current release · diff ↗
0.2.2
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2025-09-22 · diff ↗
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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
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.0
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2020-11-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
PortOpt
0.1.3
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2020-05-26 · diff ↗
0.1.2
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2020-05-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
example_shiny_app, example_strategy_config
0.1.1
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2020-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-05-18
Total releases: 6 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 848 KB / 3 files
Download size: 1.3 MB

Appears in task views

Empirical Finance

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("strand")

Format

Enos, J., Czekanski, B., Hoover, R., Kane, D., Luby, J., & Wallin, N. (2026). strand: A Framework for Investment Strategy Simulation (Version 0.2.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.strand

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for strand version 0.2.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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