n2kanalysis
n2kanalysis has spent eight years wiring INLA models to an S3 bucket.
A side-by-side editorial comparison of ichimoku and spatstat.model — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
A cloud-chart package quietly swapping its dependencies for its maintainer's own libraries.
ichimoku implements Ichimoku Kinko Hyo cloud charts, strategy backtesting and an OANDA data interface for R. Recent releases are almost entirely plumbing: 1.5.7 drops RcppSimdJson in favor of secretbase for JSON parsing, following earlier releases that moved hashing to secretbase and raised the nanonext and mirai floors. The charting and strategy surface has been stable since the 1.5.0 line.
spatstat's inference layer builds out determinantal and cluster process fitting
spatstat.model fits point process models and provides the diagnostics that go with them. The recent window is dominated by determinantal point process work — a variance-covariance matrix and more diagnostics in 3.7-2, additional `intensity` and `repul` methods in 3.7-1, and ROC curves for determinantal models in 3.5-0. Cluster and Cox process inference has advanced in parallel, with Waagepetersen's composite likelihood arriving in 3.6-1.
ichimoku implements Ichimoku Kinko Hyo cloud charts, strategy backtesting and an OANDA data interface for R. Recent releases are almost entirely plumbing: 1.5.7 drops RcppSimdJson in favor of secretbase for JSON parsing, following earlier releases that moved hashing to secretbase and raised the nanonext and mirai floors. The charting and strategy surface has been stable since the 1.5.0 line.
The visible arc is consolidation onto the maintainer's own package family — secretbase for hashing and now JSON, nanonext and mirai for concurrency — which steadily removes third-party and Rcpp-based dependencies from the install chain. Feature work is sporadic and narrow when it comes: a faster POSIXct formatter exported as a utility, a multi-session option for the Shiny app, and a fix for asymmetric strategies that failed to emit a final entry signal.
Expect further dependency consolidation as the sibling packages gain capabilities, with ichimoku adopting them shortly after release rather than shipping new charting features.
spatstat.model fits point process models and provides the diagnostics that go with them. The recent window is dominated by determinantal point process work — a variance-covariance matrix and more diagnostics in 3.7-2, additional `intensity` and `repul` methods in 3.7-1, and ROC curves for determinantal models in 3.5-0. Cluster and Cox process inference has advanced in parallel, with Waagepetersen's composite likelihood arriving in 3.6-1.
The pattern is that model classes enter the package as fitting machinery first and only later gain the apparatus that makes them usable in practice — standard errors, diagnostics, residuals, model checking. Determinantal processes are visibly midway through that progression, reaching variance-covariance estimation only in the most recent release. Around this, the package has been broadening where models can be fitted at all: replicated point patterns on linear networks in 3.5-0, extended spatial logistic regression, and conversion of recursively partitioned models to tessellations.
Expect determinantal model support to keep filling out along the same path other model classes took, since variance estimation has only just arrived and partial residuals already exist for the cluster and Cox families. The entries do not signal a move into three dimensions here, unlike the geometry and simulation packages.
Other Analytics products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either ichimoku or spatstat.model.
n2kanalysis has spent eight years wiring INLA models to an S3 bucket.
A Fortran-descended optimizer got thread-safe, then found two flags that never worked.
ggstatsplot reached 1.0 by adding tests, having outsourced its statistics years ago.
collapse got a JSS paper and a 7x fmean speedup in the same release.
gtsummary is quietly rebuilding itself around analysis results data, one table verb at a time.
broadcast is filling in NumPy-style array broadcasting for R, operator by operator.
See all ichimoku alternatives → · See all spatstat.model alternatives →
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. spatstat.model is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. spatstat.model is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
Top ichimoku alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "ichimoku alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/ichimoku for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
Top spatstat.model alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "spatstat.model alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/spatstat-model for the full list with editorial commentary on each.