R Observatory: Metrics for tinyVAST version 1.6.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

CRAN requires the check problems on this package to be fixed before 2026-08-21 or it will be archived.

tinyVAST

1.6.2

Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Models using Structural Equations

1packages depend

6.2Kdownloads / year

63.3%test coverage

4/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by James T. ThorsonFirst published 2025-03-1312 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Fits a wide variety of multivariate spatio-temporal models with simultaneous and lagged interactions among variables (including vector autoregressive spatio-temporal ('VAST') dynamics) for areal, continuous, or network spatial domains. It includes time-variable, space-variable, and space-time-variable interactions using dynamic structural equation models ('DSEM') as expressive interface, and the 'mgcv' package to specify splines via the formula interface. See Thorson et al. (2025) doi:10.1111/geb.70035 for more details.

Install

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

install.packages("tinyVAST", 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("vast-lib/tinyVAST")

Development version from vast-lib/tinyVAST. 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-tinyvast

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-tinyVAST

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-tinyVAST

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

9ERROR4OK

Failing flavors

ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
ERROR r-devel-windows-x86_64
ERROR r-oldrel-windows-x86_64
ERROR r-patched-linux-x86_64
ERROR r-release-linux-x86_64
ERROR r-release-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 17.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.37

63.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

22

Dependencies · direct

Check history

ERROR2026-07-29
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-22
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-25
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 96%
References docs: 8%

Downloads

6.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,768 · ~17/day · ~516/mo

Releases R versions

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24930 days

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6.2K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ vast-lib/tinyvast

17Stars

2Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

17Releases

209Commits

3Contributors

vector-autoregressive-spatio-temporal-modeldynamic-structural-equation-models

License GPL-3.0 · 209 commits · Last activity 2026-07-14 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-05 · 162026-08-15 · 17

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/vast-lib/tinyvast on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

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Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

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Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

36 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (22)

corpcor fmesher igraphMatrixmethodsutilsmgcvsf sfnetworks TMB units checkmate abind sdmTMB dsem insight cv sparseinv gstat cli GpGp GPvecchia

LinkingTo (2)

RcppEigen TMB

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Reverse dependencies

1direct

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mvtweedie

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

James T. Thorson

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

James T. Thorson

Author, Maintainer

Sean C. Anderson

Author

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Sean C.

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.6.2

James T.

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.6.2

Package Timeline

12 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

1.6.2Latest
2026-07-14 · current release · diff ↗
1.6.1
2026-07-01 · diff ↗
1.6.0
2026-05-19 · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.5.1
2026-04-14 · diff ↗
1.5.0
2026-03-24 · diff ↗
1.4.0
2025-12-21 · diff ↗
1.3.0
2025-09-13 · diff ↗
1.2.0
2025-07-20 · diff ↗
1.1.1
2025-05-07 · diff ↗
1.1.0
2025-05-03 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.1
2025-03-21 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2025-03-13
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2025-03-13
Total releases: 12 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 2.8 MB / 12 files
Download size: 4.2 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("tinyVAST")

Format

Thorson, J. T., & Anderson, S. C. (2026). tinyVAST: Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Models using Structural Equations (Version 1.6.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.tinyVAST

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for tinyVAST version 1.6.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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