R Observatory: Metrics for vars version 1.6-1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

vars

1.6-1Package record

VAR Modelling

27packages dependsuggested by 19

362.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Bernhard PfaffCRAN page ↗Website ↗

Estimation, lag selection, diagnostic testing, forecasting, causality analysis, forecast error variance decomposition and impulse response functions of VAR models and estimation of SVAR and SVEC models.

Install

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

install.packages("vars", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-vars

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-vars

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-vars

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: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.6-1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Help pages: 29
Examples that run: 89%24 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 95%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 60%
Help pages citing references: 7%

How these are measured

Downloads

362.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #630 · ~993/day · ~30.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

47K30 days

92.8K90 days

362.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.3K r2u5 autocran2.7K conda_forge135 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing vars adds 5 packages (4 with compiled code, 3.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sandwich 1.4 MB, strucchange 751 KB, zoo 675 KB.

Depends (6)

R >= 2.0.0MASSstrucchange urca lmtest (>= 0.9-26)sandwich

Imports (1)

methods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

27direct

14indirect

Depends 7 · Imports 20

Suggested by 19

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

broom AER collapse ggfortify fpp2 LambertW bruceR BVAR lpirfs RTransferEntropy dfms dsem nmfkc SVARtca bivarhr FAVAR margEVT valueprhr VARtests

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Bernhard Pfaff

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2006)

Matthieu Stigler

Contributor · added in 1.5-0

Releases (45)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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 4.2.0 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
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 2.3.0 released · 2006-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2006-07-24
Total releases: 45 / 20 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.0.0
Bundled data: 2.4 KB / 1 file
Download size: 84 KB

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Format

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for vars version 1.6-1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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