gretlR

0.1.4

A Seamless Integration of 'Gretl' and 'R'

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3.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Sagiru MatiFirst published 2020-06-144 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

It allows running 'gretl' (http://gretl.sourceforge.net/index.html) program from R, R Markdown and Quarto. 'gretl' ('Gnu' Regression, 'Econometrics', and Time-series Library) is a statistical software for Econometric analysis. This package does not only integrate 'gretl' and 'R' but also serves as a 'gretl' Knit-Engine for 'knitr' package. Write all your 'gretl' commands in 'R', R Markdown chunk.

Install

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

install.packages("gretlR", 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("sagirumati/gretlR")

Development version from sagirumati/gretlR. 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-gretlr

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-gretlR

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

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

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

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Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

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Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 318 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 13%

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,522 · ~9/day · ~263/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ sagirumati/gretlr

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2Contributors

30 commits · Last activity 2024-04-25

Stars over time

2024-11-14 · 82026-07-07 · 8

Repository practices

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (4)

knitr rmarkdown kableExtra magrittr

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none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Sagiru Mati

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Sagiru Mati

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

4 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. 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
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.4Latest
2022-05-01 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-05-01
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-04-24
repeated policy violation The same as before
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-04-23
0.1.2
2022-04-22 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-04-20
policy violation Creates '~/gretl' and '~/.gretl'
0.1.1
2022-04-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.0
2020-06-14
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-06-14
Total releases: 4 / 6 yrs
License: GPL
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: 369 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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