gravity

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Estimation Methods for Gravity Models

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Overview

About

Maintained by Mauricio VargasFirst published 2017-01-3110 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A wrapper of different standard estimation methods for gravity models. This package provides estimation methods for log-log models and multiplicative models.

Install

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

install.packages("gravity", 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("pachadotdev/gravity")

Development version from pachadotdev/gravity. 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-gravity

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-gravity

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Slowest check: 3.9 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

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

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Repository

GitHub ↗ pachadotdev/gravity

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (16)

lmtest sandwich glm2MASSstatscensRegsurvivalmultiwayvcov tibble magrittr dplyr tidyr purrr rlang Rdpackutils

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People & History

People (8)

Maintainer (1)

Mauricio Vargas

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 0.8.5

Authors (4)

Mauricio Vargas

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 0.8.5

Jan Pablo Burgard

Author, Copyright holder

Joshua Kunst

Author, Copyright holder · added in 0.8.5

Anna-Lena Woelwer

Author, Copyright holder

Contributors (3)

Romain Francois

Contributor · added in 0.9.7

Lionel Henry

Contributor · added in 0.9.7

Sarah Johnson

Contributor · added in 1.0

Mauricio Vargas

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 0.8.5

Jan Pablo Burgard

Author, Copyright holder

Joshua Kunst

Author, Copyright holder · added in 0.8.5

Anna-Lena Woelwer

Author, Copyright holder

Reviewers (1)

Hrisyana Doytchinova

Reviewer · added in 0.9.8

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Martin Bresslein

no longer listed · 0.3 to 0.5

Package Timeline

10 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.1Latest
2023-05-02 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-05-02
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-04-02
email to the maintainer is undeliverable
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0
2022-01-05 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.9.9
2020-07-27 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-07-27
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-07-26
check problems were not corrected in time
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.9.8
2019-05-08 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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0.9.7
2019-04-22 · diff ↗
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2018-11-22 · diff ↗
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2018-09-20 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.6
2017-12-14 · diff ↗
0.5
2017-11-14 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.3
2017-01-31
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-01-31
Total releases: 10 / 9 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2)
Download size: 638 KB
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With dependencies: not tracked yet

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