R Observatory: Metrics for villager version 2.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

villager

2.0.0Package record

A Framework for Designing and Running Agent Based Models

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

95.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas ThelenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

This is a package for creating and running Agent Based Models (ABM). It provides a set of base classes with core functionality to allow bootstrapped models. For more intensive modeling, the supplied classes can be extended to fit researcher needs.

Install

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

install.packages("villager", 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("zizroc/villager")

Development version from zizroc/villager. 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-villager

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-villager

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-villager

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: 10.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-16
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-07-15
OK13 OK2026-06-09

Show 5 earlier changesHide 5 earlier changes

ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-04-01
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-03-30
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.0.0

READMEYes · 744 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 9
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,515 · ~7/day · ~221/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27530 days

73690 days

2.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on79 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

zizroc/villager ↗Account: zizroc

67Stars

6Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

173Commits

4Commit identities

simulationabmagent-based-modeling

173 commits · Last activity 2024-06-07 · +1.5% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 98%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 50
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 7

Stars over time

2025-09-16 · 592026-10-06 · 67

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/zizroc/villager on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing villager adds 25 packages (14 with compiled code, 6.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (3)

readr R6 uuid

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

covr dplyr knitr leaflet plotly remotes rmarkdown testthat roxygen2 pandoc

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Thomas Thelen

Author, Maintainer since 1.1.1 (2022)

Gerardo Aldana

Author

Toni Gonzalez

Author

Marcus Thomson

Author

Releases (2)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.0.0Latest
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2024-05-25 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
winik, winik_manager

added 3 exports
agent, agent_manager, model_data
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.1.1
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2022-04-15
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-04-15
Total releases: 2 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 1.8 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("villager")

Format

Thelen, T., Aldana, G., Gonzalez, T., & Thomson, M. (2024). villager: A Framework for Designing and Running Agent Based Models (Version 2.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.villager

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 villager version 2.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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