vars

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VAR Modelling

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Overview

About

Maintained by Bernhard PfaffFirst published 2006-07-2445 releasesCRAN page ↗

Estimation, lag selection, diagnostic testing, forecasting, causality analysis, forecast error variance decomposition and impulse response functions of VAR models and estimation of SVAR and SVEC models.

Install

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

install.packages("vars", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-vars

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-vars

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-vars

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

36%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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WARNING2026-06-08
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OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 80%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 60%
References docs: 7%

Downloads

354.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #687 · ~972/day · ~29.6K/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (6)

R >= 2.0.0MASSstrucchange urca lmtest (>= 0.9-26)sandwich

Imports (1)

methods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

47direct

15indirect

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 3,559 (88%)Rd 464 (12%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S355

Cyclomatic complexity: 3.0 median / 57 max

Test coverage

Line coverage

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Expression

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Tests / Examples

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Functions

100 25 exported

Complexity

5.4 avg / 57 max

Call network

100 nodes / 70 edges

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People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Bernhard Pfaff

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Bernhard Pfaff

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Matthieu Stigler

Contributor · added in 1.5-0

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Package metadata

First published: 2006-07-24
Total releases: 45 / 20 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.0.0
Bundled data: 2.4 KB / 1 file
Download size: 84 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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