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lubridate vs yardstick
A side-by-side editorial comparison of lubridate and yardstick — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
lubridate vs yardstick: at a glance
What is lubridate?
lubridate ships parsing fixes, timezone-data churn, and a long-overdue MIT relicense.
lubridate is R's standard package for date-time manipulation. Recent releases are dominated by parsing correctness — partial datetimes, multiple format strings, month names colliding with the %a format — and by adapting to timezone database changes in R-devel. Version 1.9.5 also relicensed the package to MIT.
What is yardstick?
yardstick made fairness metrics a first-class part of tidymodels evaluation
yardstick supplies the metrics tidymodels evaluates models with. Its recent history is metric expansion into areas the package did not originally cover - survival analysis, model fairness, and in 1.4.0 a batch of regression and classification metrics filling remaining gaps - alongside a long deprecation cycle that finally turned errors on in 1.4.0.
lubridate vs yardstick: editorial side-by-side
lubridate
0.0ANALYTICS
lubridate ships parsing fixes, timezone-data churn, and a long-overdue MIT relicense.
◆ Current state
lubridate is R's standard package for date-time manipulation. Recent releases are dominated by parsing correctness — partial datetimes, multiple format strings, month names colliding with the %a format — and by adapting to timezone database changes in R-devel. Version 1.9.5 also relicensed the package to MIT.
◆ Where it's heading
The feature surface has been stable since 1.9.0 deprecated the roll argument for roll_dst and added integer coercion for Duration, Period and Interval. What continues is a steady stream of parsing edge cases and tzdata churn the package absorbs on its users' behalf, which is most of what a date-time library's maintenance actually is.
◆ Prediction
Expect further releases driven by tzdata and R-devel changes, with parsing fixes arriving as locale and format edge cases get reported.
yardstick
0.0ANALYTICS
yardstick made fairness metrics a first-class part of tidymodels evaluation
◆ Current state
yardstick supplies the metrics tidymodels evaluates models with. Its recent history is metric expansion into areas the package did not originally cover - survival analysis, model fairness, and in 1.4.0 a batch of regression and classification metrics filling remaining gaps - alongside a long deprecation cycle that finally turned errors on in 1.4.0.
◆ Where it's heading
The direction is coverage plus extensibility. Rather than adding fairness metrics one at a time, 1.3.0 shipped new_groupwise_metric() so group-aware metrics can be defined for the problem at hand, which is the more durable contribution. The parallel thread is removing hidden state: the event_first global option, deprecated in 0.0.7, took until 1.4.0 to become an error.
◆ Prediction
Expect the groupwise constructor to attract more fairness definitions than the three shipped, and the developer-facing metric creation helpers deprecated in 1.2.0 to be removed next; core metric coverage now looks close to complete.
Alternatives to lubridate and yardstick
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 lubridate or yardstick.
bayesplot
bayesplot keeps widening its posterior-check catalogue while absorbing each ggplot2 break.
animation
Contribution-driven maintenance on a package whose last structural change was magick support.
pins
pins keeps adding a storage backend per release while retiring its original API
tsibble
tsibble shipped one release in five and a half years - the data structure is finished
tune
tune extends tuning past the model itself to postprocessors, and adds a second parallel backend
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Recent activity from lubridate and yardstick
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 4mo agoyardstickAdds Gini, MSE and rate metrics; old deprecations now error
- 6mo agolubridatelubridate 1.9.5 relicenses to MIT and fixes timestamp order
- 6mo agolubridatelubridate 1.9.4 parses partial datetimes like as.POSIXct()
- 1y agoyardstickAll messages translated to cli
- 2y agoyardstickFixes wrong weights in roc_curve_survival()
- 2y agoyardstickFairness metrics and a groupwise metric constructor ⚡
- 3y agoyardstickBrier score for classification; tidyselect interface throughout
- 3y agolubridatelubridate 1.9.2 fixes month parsing when %a is present
- 3y agolubridatelubridate 1.9.1 accepts multiple formats in as_datetime()
- 3y agolubridatelubridate 1.9.0 replaces roll with an explicit roll_dst argument
- 3y agoyardstickNew maintainer; clearer metric_set() errors
- 5y agolubridatelubridate 1.7.10 fixes interval division across leap years
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between lubridate and yardstick?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. lubridate and yardstick are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is lubridate better than yardstick?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. lubridate and yardstick are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to lubridate?
Top lubridate alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "lubridate alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/lubridate for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to yardstick?
Top yardstick alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "yardstick alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/yardstick for the full list with editorial commentary on each.