xts | R Observatory

Overview

About

Maintained by Joshua M. UlrichFirst published 2008-01-0545 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provide for uniform handling of R's different time-based data classes by extending zoo, maximizing native format information preservation and allowing for user level customization and extension, while simplifying cross-class interoperability.

Install

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

install.packages("xts", 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("joshuaulrich/xts")

Development version from joshuaulrich/xts. 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-xts

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-xts

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-xts

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

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

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

Slowest check: 5.5 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.00

58.9%

Coverage · measured lines

90%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 424 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 85%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 82%
References docs: 17%

Downloads

5M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #166 · ~13.6K/day · ~413.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

364.6K30 days

1.1M90 days

5M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on38.1K r2u231 autocran220.6K conda_forge842 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ joshuaulrich/xts

224Stars

72Forks

67Open issues

4Open PRs

12Releases

1,402Commits

30Contributors

rctime-series

License GPL-2.0 · 1,402 commits · Last activity 2026-02-28 · +0.4% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-06 · 2192026-07-07 · 224

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/joshuaulrich/xts on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Governance and community (1)

Funding

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.6.0zoo

Imports (1)

methods

LinkingTo (1)

zoo

Suggests (5)

timeSeries timeDate tseries chron tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

201direct

276indirect

and 155 more packages.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 10,030 (49%)C 5,740 (28%)Rd 3,610 (18%)Vignettes 1,133 (6%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S395

Cyclomatic complexity: 2.0 median / 51 max
Test cases: 949 / 0.00 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

59%

Expression

58.0%

Tests / Examples

58.9% / 46% ex

Functions

338 93 exported

Complexity

4.1 avg / 51 max

Call network

338 nodes / 418 edges

Call graph

Open call graph →

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Lowest coverage

338 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
.indexisdst exp	1	0%
.indexmday exp	1	0%
.indexmin exp	1	0%
.indexmon exp	1	0%
.indexsec exp	1	0%
.indexwday exp	1	0%

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Joshua M. Ulrich

Maintainer, Author · added in 0.8-8

Authors (2)

Joshua M. Ulrich

Maintainer, Author · added in 0.8-8

Jeffrey A. Ryan

Author, Copyright holder

Contributors (2)

Ross Bennett

Contributor · added in 0.10-0

Corwin Joy

Contributor · added in 0.11-0

Copyright holders (1)

Jeffrey A. Ryan

Author, Copyright holder

Listed in earlier versions (3)

Josh M. Ulrich

no longer listed · 0.0-3 to 0.8-6

Ryan

no longer listed · 0.10-0 to 0.14.2

Ulrich

no longer listed · 0.10-0 to 0.14.2

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2008-01-05
Total releases: 45 / 18 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Bundled data: 5.0 KB / 1 file
Download size: 857 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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