geostan

0.8.2

Bayesian Spatial Analysis

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6.4Kdownloads / year

79.0%test coverage

10/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Connor DoneganFirst published 2022-02-0916 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

For spatial data analysis; provides exploratory spatial analysis tools, spatial regression, spatial econometric, and disease mapping models, model diagnostics, and special methods for inference with small area survey data (e.g., the America Community Survey (ACS)) and censored population health monitoring data. Models are pre-specified using the Stan programming language, a platform for Bayesian inference using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). References: Carpenter et al. (2017) doi:10.18637/jss.v076.i01; Donegan (2021) doi:10.31219/osf.io/3ey65; Donegan (2022) doi:10.21105/joss.04716; Donegan, Chun and Hughes (2020) doi:10.1016/j.spasta.2020.100450; Donegan, Chun and Griffith (2021) doi:10.3390/ijerph18136856; Morris et al. (2019) doi:10.1016/j.sste.2019.100301.

Install

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

install.packages("geostan", 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("ConnorDonegan/geostan")

Development version from ConnorDonegan/geostan. 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-geostan

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-geostan

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-geostan

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

Health

CRAN checks

3NOTE10OK

Failing flavors

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NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Slowest check: 19.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.26

79.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMEYes · 1,018 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 90%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 97%
References docs: 2%

Downloads

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CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,769 · ~18/day · ~537/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ connordonegan/geostan

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17Releases

468Commits

4Contributors

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Repository practices

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Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

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Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (17)

spdep sf ggplot2methodsgraphicsstatsspDataMASStruncnorm signs gridExtrautilsMatrixRcpp RcppParallel (>= 5.0.1)rstan rstantools

LinkingTo (6)

BH Rcpp RcppEigen RcppParallel rstan StanHeaders (>= 2.26.0)

Suggests (4)

testthat knitr rmarkdown bayesplot

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Connor Donegan

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Connor Donegan

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (2)

Mitzi Morris

Contributor

Amy Tims

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Package Timeline

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

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Package metadata

First published: 2022-02-09
Total releases: 16 / 4 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 93 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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