R Observatory: Metrics for vws version 0.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

vws

0.4.0Package record

Vertical Weighted Strips

0packages depend

1.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Andrew M. RaimCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A reference implementation of the Vertical Weighted Strips method explored by Raim, Livsey, and Irimata (2025) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2401.09696 for rejection sampling.

Changes in 0.4.0

Added NEWS.md file to report changes to the package.
Add support to be able to update existing real-const-region and int-const-region objects.
Add logger function to C++ interface.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("vws", 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("andrewraim/vws")

Development version from andrewraim/vws. 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-vws

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-vws

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-vws

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: 9.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-31
ERROR11 OK, 2 ERROR2026-07-23
OK14 OK2026-04-22

Show 2 earlier changesHide 2 earlier changes

ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.0

READMEYes · 167 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.4.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 8includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%7 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

vws PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

1.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #21,184 · ~5/day · ~162/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

21030 days

63590 days

1.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on308 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

andrewraim/vws ↗Account: andrewraim

0Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

252Commits

3Commit identities

252 commits · Last activity 2026-07-22

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 86%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 56
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Releases over time

2026-07-07 · 02026-09-28 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/andrewraim/vws on 2026-10-25.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing vws adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 3.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, fntl 1.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (2)

Rcpp fntl

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp fntl

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown quarto statmod tidyverse

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Andrew M. Raim

Author, Maintainer since 0.3.0 (2025)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Raim

no longer listed · 0.3.0 to 0.4.0

Releases (2)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.4.0Latest
record
2026-07-24 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.0
record
2025-11-11
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-11-11
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 702 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("vws")

Format

Raim, A. M. (2026). vws: Vertical Weighted Strips (Version 0.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.vws

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 vws version 0.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-26, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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