R Observatory: Metrics for walker version 1.0.10

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

walker

1.0.10

Bayesian Generalized Linear Models with Time-Varying Coefficients

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3.7Kdownloads / year

50.4%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jouni HelskeFirst published 2017-06-1524 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Efficient Bayesian generalized linear models with time-varying coefficients as in Helske (2022, doi:10.1016/j.softx.2022.101016). Gaussian, Poisson, and binomial observations are supported. The Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) computations are done using Hamiltonian Monte Carlo provided by Stan, using a state space representation of the model in order to marginalise over the coefficients for efficient sampling. For non-Gaussian models, the package uses the importance sampling type estimators based on approximate marginal MCMC as in Vihola, Helske, Franks (2020, doi:10.1111/sjos.12492).

Install

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

install.packages("walker", 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("helske/walker")

Development version from helske/walker. 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-walker

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-walker

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-walker

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 20.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.01

50.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

13

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMEYes · 829 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 38%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 40%
References docs: 12%

Downloads

3.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,485 · ~10/day · ~306/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ helske/walker

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License GPL-3.0 · 223 commits · Last activity 2024-08-29 · 0% stars, 30d

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

24 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (3)

R >= 3.4.0bayesplot rstan

Imports (11)

coda dplyr Hmisc ggplot2 KFAS loomethodsRcpp (>= 0.12.9)RcppParallel rlang rstantools

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BH Rcpp RcppArmadillo RcppEigen RcppParallel rstan StanHeaders

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Jouni Helske

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Authors (1)

Jouni Helske

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-06-15
Total releases: 24 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 2.1 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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