R Observatory: Metrics for thief version 0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

thief

0.3Package record

Temporal Hierarchical Forecasting

1packages dependsuggested by 3

34.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Rob HyndmanCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Methods and tools for generating forecasts at different temporal frequencies using a hierarchical time series approach.

Changes in 0.3

Improved handling of forecastfunction argument in thief()
Bug fixes
pkgdown documentation

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("thief", 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("robjhyndman/thief")

Development version from robjhyndman/thief. 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-thief

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-thief

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-thief

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 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3

READMEYes · 93 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 5
Examples that run: 80%4 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 90%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

34.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,757 · ~94/day · ~2.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.8K30 days

5.4K90 days

34.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on162 r2u3 autocran660 conda_forge152 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

robjhyndman/thief ↗Account: robjhyndman

48Stars

12Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

59Commits

3Commit identities

59 commits · Last activity 2023-07-18 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-14 · 472026-07-07 · 48

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/robjhyndman/thief on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI (config file)

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2023-07-18 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing thief adds 31 packages (19 with compiled code, 24 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, colorspace 2.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.0.2forecast

Imports (2)

hts ggplot2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

1indirect

Depends 1

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

forecastHybrid

Suggests, most downloaded first

nnfor tsutils modeltime

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Rob Hyndman

Nikolaos Kourentzes

Author, Copyright holder

Releases (2)

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2018-01-24 · current release · diff ↗
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Package metadata

First published: 2016-09-07
Total releases: 2 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.2
Bundled data: 11 KB / 1 file
Download size: 30 KB

Appears in task views

Time Series Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("thief")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for thief version 0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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