R Observatory: Metrics for varmapack version 0.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

varmapack

0.1.2Package record

Burn-in-Free Simulation and Analysis of Gaussian VARMA Models

0packages depend

537downloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kristján JónassonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Simulates Gaussian vector autoregressive-moving-average time-series models without a burn-in period by drawing startup shocks from their model-implied conditional distribution. Also provides model test cases, autocovariances, spectral radii, and impulse responses.

Changes in 0.1.2

Added an empirical example using European stock-index returns and expanded repository statistical tests, benchmark analysis, and documentation following SoftwareX review.
Improved portability for builds using link-time optimization (LTO), as requested by CRAN.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("varmapack", 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("jonasson2/varmapack")

Development version from jonasson2/varmapack. 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-varmapack

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-varmapack

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-varmapack

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: 2.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK6 OK2026-09-13

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.2

READMEYes · 221 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

537

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #23,918 · ~1/day · ~45/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28930 days

53790 days

5371 year

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Repository

jonasson2/varmapack ↗Account: jonasson2

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

67Commits

1Commit identities

67 commits · Last activity 2026-09-14

Responsiveness

not measured

Commits over time

2026-09-15 · 662026-09-20 · 67

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jonasson2/varmapack on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing varmapack adds 2 packages (1 with compiled code, 178 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: randompack 115 KB, R6 63 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (2)

R6 randompack

LinkingTo (1)

randompack

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Kristján Jónasson

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2026)

Releases (2)

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0.1.2Latest
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2026-09-15 · current release · diff ↗
0.1.1
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2026-09-12
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-09-12
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 70 KB

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Time Series Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("varmapack")

Format

Jónasson, K. (2026). varmapack: Burn-in-Free Simulation and Analysis of Gaussian VARMA Models (Version 0.1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.varmapack

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for varmapack version 0.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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