NobBS

1.1.1

Nowcasting by Bayesian Smoothing

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7.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Rodrigo Zepeda TelloFirst published 2020-03-034 releasesCRAN page ↗

A Bayesian approach to estimate the number of occurred-but-not-yet-reported cases from incomplete, time-stamped reporting data for disease outbreaks. 'NobBS' learns the reporting delay distribution and the time evolution of the epidemic curve to produce smoothed nowcasts in both stable and time-varying case reporting settings, as described in McGough et al. (2020) doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007735.

Install

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

install.packages("NobBS", 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-nobbs

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-NobBS

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-NobBS

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 5.9 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

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Dependencies · direct

Check history

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14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,034 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 39%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (5)

dplyr rlang rjags coda magrittr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown scoringutils ggplot2

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 834 (45%)Vignettes 813 (44%)Rd 202 (11%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 58.0 median / 60 max
System requirements: 1 external

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

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Tests / Examples

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Functions

2 2 exported

Complexity

58 avg / 60 max

Call network

2 nodes / 0 edges

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Lowest coverage

Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 2

Name	Class	Rows × Cols	Also ships in
denguedat	data.frame	52,987 × 3	–
mpoxdat	data.frame	3,323 × 4	–

People & History

People (8)

Maintainer (1)

Rodrigo Zepeda Tello

Maintainer, Author, Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Authors (6)

Rodrigo Zepeda Tello

Maintainer, Author, Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Author

Author

Author, Contributor

Author

Author, Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Contributors (5)

Rodrigo Zepeda Tello

Maintainer, Author, Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Sarah McGough

Author, Contributor

Rami Yaari

Author, Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Matteo Perini

Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Teresa Yamana

Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Package Timeline

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

1.1.1Latest
2026-06-01 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1.0
2025-05-07 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.0
2024-01-08 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-01-08
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-03-01
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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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
0.1.0
2020-03-03
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-03-03
Total releases: 4 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Bundled data: 52 KB / 2 files
Download size: 543 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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