debtkit

0.1.2

Debt Sustainability Analysis and Fiscal Risk Assessment

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1.5Kdownloads / year

92.8%test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Charles CoverdaleFirst published 2026-03-311 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Analyses government debt sustainability using the standard debt dynamics framework from Blanchard (1990) doi:10.1787/budget-v2-art12-en and the IMF Debt Sustainability Analysis methodology (IMF, 2013) and the Sovereign Risk and Debt Sustainability Framework (IMF, 2022). Projects debt-to-GDP paths, decomposes historical debt changes into interest, growth, and primary balance contributions, and estimates fiscal reaction functions following Bohn (1998) doi:10.1162/003355398555793. Produces stochastic fan charts via Monte Carlo simulation, standardised stress tests, and IMF- style heat map risk assessments. Computes S1/S2 sustainability gap indicators used by the European Commission. All methods are pure computation with no external dependencies beyond base R; works with fiscal data from any source.

Install

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

install.packages("debtkit", 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("charlescoverdale/debtkit")

Development version from charlescoverdale/debtkit. 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-debtkit

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

# 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-debtkit

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.51

92.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-01
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,077 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 62%

Downloads

1.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,503 · ~4/day · ~125/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ charlescoverdale/debtkit

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Last activity 2026-05-30

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cran-comments.md

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Dependencies

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2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

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People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Charles Coverdale

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Authors (1)

Charles Coverdale

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.2Latest
2026-03-31 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-31
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
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