spatialreg

1.4-3

Spatial Regression Analysis

30packages depend

230.3Kdownloads / year

14.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Roger BivandFirst published 2019-04-0118 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A collection of all the estimation functions for spatial cross-sectional models (on lattice/areal data using spatial weights matrices) contained up to now in 'spdep'. These model fitting functions include maximum likelihood methods for cross-sectional models proposed by 'Cliff' and 'Ord' (1973, ISBN:0850860369) and (1981, ISBN:0850860814), fitting methods initially described by 'Ord' (1975) doi:10.1080/01621459.1975.10480272. The models are further described by 'Anselin' (1988) doi:10.1007/978-94-015-7799-1. Spatial two stage least squares and spatial general method of moment models initially proposed by 'Kelejian' and 'Prucha' (1998) doi:10.1023/A:1007707430416 and (1999) doi:10.1111/1468-2354.00027 are provided. Impact methods and MCMC fitting methods proposed by 'LeSage' and 'Pace' (2009) doi:10.1201/9781420064254 are implemented for the family of cross-sectional spatial regression models. Methods for fitting the log determinant term in maximum likelihood and MCMC fitting are compared by 'Bivand et al.' (2013) doi:10.1111/gean.12008, and model fitting methods by 'Bivand' and 'Piras' (2015) doi:10.18637/jss.v063.i18; both of these articles include extensive lists of references. A recent review is provided by 'Bivand', 'Millo' and 'Piras' (2021) doi:10.3390/math9111276. 'spatialreg' >= 1.1-* corresponded to 'spdep' >= 1.1-1, in which the model fitting functions were deprecated and passed through to 'spatialreg', but masked those in 'spatialreg'. From versions 1.2-*, the functions have been made defunct in 'spdep'. From version 1.3-6, add Anselin-Kelejian (1997) test to `stsls` for residual spatial autocorrelation doi:10.1177/016001769702000109.

Install

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

install.packages("spatialreg", 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("r-spatial/spatialreg")

Development version from r-spatial/spatialreg. 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-spatialreg

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-spatialreg

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 9.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.00

14.3%

Coverage · measured lines

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Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 92%
Documented parameters: 90%
Return-value docs: 88%
References docs: 85%

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Repository

GitHub ↗ r-spatial/spatialreg

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6Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

233Commits

6Contributors

spatial-regressionspatial-dependencemaximum-likelihoodimpactsbayesianspatial-econometrics

233 commits · Last activity 2026-05-20 · +1.9% stars, 30d

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (4)

R >= 3.3spDataMatrixsf

Imports (10)

spdep codamethodsmvtnormbootsplinesLearnBayesnlmemultcomp marginaleffects

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

parallelRSpectra tmapforeignspam knitr lmtest expm sandwich rmarkdown igraph tinytest codingMatrices

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

30direct

5indirect

Code & Tests

People & History

People (23)

Maintainer (1)

Roger Bivand

Maintainer, Author

Authors (2)

Roger Bivand

Maintainer, Author

Gianfranco Piras

Author

Contributors (21)

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James LeSage

Contributor

Angela Li

Contributor

Hongfei Li

Contributor · added in 1.2-1

Jielai Ma

Contributor

Abhirup Mallik

Contributor, Translator

Giovanni Millo

Contributor

Kelley Pace

Contributor

Josiah Parry

Contributor · added in 1.3-6

Pedro Peres-Neto

Contributor

Tobias Rüttenauer

Contributor · added in 1.1-8

Mauricio Sarrias

Contributor

JuanTomas Sayago

Contributor

Michael Tiefelsdorf

Contributor

Translators (1)

Abhirup Mallik

Contributor, Translator

Listed in earlier versions (4)

Bendix Carstensen

no longer listed · 1.2-6 to 1.2-8

Soren Hojsgaard

no longer listed · 1.2-6 to 1.2-8

Randal Johnson

no longer listed · 1.2-6 to 1.2-8

Gregory Warnes

no longer listed · 1.2-6 to 1.2-8

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-04-01
Total releases: 18 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3
Download size: 1.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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