R Observatory: Metrics for universals version 0.0.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

universals

0.0.5Package record

S3 Generics for Bayesian Analyses

4packages depend

7.6Kdownloads / year

52.2%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Joe ThorleyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Poisson Consulting

Provides S3 generic methods and some default implementations for Bayesian analyses that generate Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) samples. The purpose of 'universals' is to reduce package dependencies and conflicts. The 'nlist' package implements many of the methods for its 'nlist' class.

Changes in 0.0.5

Update package lifecycle from experimental to stable.
Minimum version R >= 3.5
Ensure dims() returns an unnamed integer vector.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("universals", 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("poissonconsulting/universals")

Development version from poissonconsulting/universals. 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-universals

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-universals

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-universals

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  universals/tests/testthat/test-dims.R (.Dim: 1)
'.Dim' should be changed to 'dim'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 54 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.0.5

READMEYes · 311 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.0.5Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 28 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 8%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 21%

How these are measured

Downloads

7.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,849 · ~21/day · ~634/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

63530 days

1.7K90 days

7.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on213 r2u2 autocran68 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

poissonconsulting/universals ↗Organization: poissonconsulting

4Stars

1Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

227Commits

7Commit identities

rstatsgenericss3model-fittingcran

227 commits · Last activity 2026-10-13 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.0.5.9004, ahead of CRAN 0.0.5 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 92%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 24
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2020-07-13 · 42026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

15 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/poissonconsulting/universals on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (4)

Code of conductContributing guideCODEOWNERSSupport guide

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-15

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-06-04
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: at least 4 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Fable 52 commits · Jul 2026
Claude Opus 4.82 commits · Jun 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing universals adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

covr nlist testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

3indirect

Imports 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

ssdtools term mcmcr nlist

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Joe Thorley

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2020)

Kirill Müller

Contributor · added in 0.0.3

Poisson Consulting

Copyright holder, Funder

Releases (5)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-05-31
Total releases: 5 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 21 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("universals")

Format

Thorley, J., Poisson Consulting, & Müller, K. (2022). universals: S3 Generics for Bayesian Analyses (Version 0.0.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.universals

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for universals version 0.0.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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