RSTr

1.2.0

Gibbs Samplers for Discrete Bayesian Spatiotemporal Models

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Overview

About

Maintained by David DeLaraFirst published 2026-01-173 releasesCRAN page ↗

Takes Poisson or Binomial discrete spatial data and runs a Gibbs sampler for a variety of Spatiotemporal Conditional Autoregressive (CAR) models. Includes measures to prevent estimate over-smoothing through a restriction of model informativeness for select models. Also provides tools to load output and get median estimates. Implements methods from Besag, York, and Mollié (1991) "Bayesian image restoration, with two applications in spatial statistics" doi:10.1007/BF00116466, Gelfand and Vounatsou (2003) "Proper multivariate conditional autoregressive models for spatial data analysis" doi:10.1093/biostatistics/4.1.11, Quick et al. (2017) "Multivariate spatiotemporal modeling of age-specific stroke mortality" doi:10.1214/17-AOAS1068, and Quick et al. (2021) "Evaluating the informativeness of the Besag-York-Mollié CAR model" doi:10.1016/j.sste.2021.100420.

Install

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

install.packages("RSTr", 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-rstr

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-RSTr

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-RSTr

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 6.1 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.01

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Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

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Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 5%

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Repository

GitHub ↗ cehi-code-repos/rstr

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License Apache-2.0 · 399 commits · Last activity 2026-07-08

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Dependencies

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11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 4.3.0

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Rcpp RcppArmadillo RcppDist (>= 0.1.1.1)

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David DeLara

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David DeLara

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Package Timeline

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1.2.0Latest
2026-07-09 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1.4
2026-01-31 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2026-01-17
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-17
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.3.0
Bundled data: 428 KB / 7 files
Download size: 1.8 MB
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