R Observatory: Metrics for vital version 2.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

vital

2.0.3

Tidy Analysis Tools for Mortality, Fertility, Migration and Population Data

0packages depend

3.4Kdownloads / year

68.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Rob HyndmanFirst published 2024-06-046 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Analysing vital statistics based on tools consistent with the tidyverse. Tools are provided for data visualization, life table calculations, computing net migration numbers, Lee-Carter modelling; functional data modelling and forecasting.

Install

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

install.packages("vital", 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("robjhyndman/vital")

Development version from robjhyndman/vital. 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-vital

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-vital

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-vital

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 8.6 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 7.28

68.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

18

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 224 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 79%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 97%
References docs: 29%

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,834 · ~9/day · ~287/mo

Releases R versions

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21930 days

70090 days

3.4K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ robjhyndman/vital

32Stars

5Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

544Commits

8Contributors

544 commits · Last activity 2026-05-04 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

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Continuous integration (1)

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Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.qmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

25 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (18)

cobs distributional dplyr fable fabletools ggplot2 HMDHFDplusmgcvMortalityLaws patchwork purrr rlang StMoMo tibble tidyr tidyselect tsibble vctrs

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

demography feasts future future.apply knitr progressr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Rob Hyndman

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (2)

Rob Hyndman

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Sixian Tang

Author · added in 2.0.0

Contributors (2)

Miles McBain

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

Contributor

Copyright holders (1)

Rob Hyndman

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.0.3Latest
2026-02-13 · current release · diff ↗
2.0.2
2026-01-19 · diff ↗
2.0.1
2025-10-06 · diff ↗
2.0.0
2025-08-20 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.1.0
2024-06-21 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2024-06-04
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-06-04
Total releases: 6 / 2 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 347 KB / 3 files
Download size: 2.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("vital")

Format

Hyndman, R., McBain, M., O'Hara-Wild, M., & Tang, S. (2026). vital: Tidy Analysis Tools for Mortality, Fertility, Migration and Population Data (Version 2.0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.vital

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for vital version 2.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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