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contagionchannels

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Velocity0.0

Two-Stage Detection and Attribution of Cross-Border Financial Contagion Channels

github.com/avishekb9/contagionchannels ↗

Three releases in ten days, every one of them a CRAN reviewer's correction rather than a code change.

econometricscontagion-analysiscran-submissionr-package
◆Current state
contagionchannels reached CRAN on 2026-05-08 with a methodology preprint behind it and a cross-quantilogram lineage visible in its citations. What the release feed does not contain is any description of what the package computes: all three entries document the submission process — a licence field reduced from GPL-3 plus file to plain GPL-3, an arXiv reference rewritten in canonical DOI form, and a base-graphics fallback adjusted on a reviewer's request.
◆Where it's heading
There is no product trajectory to read here yet, only a submission one, and it is unusually well documented — each entry names the reviewer or check that prompted it and quotes the feedback verbatim. That transparency is the one signal available: the maintainer treats review rounds as releases worth publishing rather than squashing. Any judgement about direction will have to wait for a release that changes the package rather than its metadata.
◆Prediction
With CRAN acceptance secured, the next release should be the first to carry actual methodological content; until one appears, there is not enough in these entries to say where the package is heading.

◆Recent moves

  1. 3mo ago

    v0.1.3 — first CRAN release

    The package becomes installable from CRAN after three rounds of reviewer feedback, each summarized here with the change it forced. It is a distribution milestone rather than a functional one — the notes describe the review process end to end and the package's own capabilities not at all.

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  2. 3mo ago

    v0.1.2: switch arXiv reference in DESCRIPTION to canonical DOI form

    An auto-check NOTE asking that the arXiv preprint be cited by its DOI rather than its identifier, plus a spelling wordlist addition for the cross-quantilogram authors. Metadata only.

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  3. 3mo ago

    v0.1.1: address CRAN reviewer feedback (License) + add arXiv reference

    A reviewer flagged the default MIT-style LICENSE file shipped alongside a GPL-3 declaration; the file goes and the licence field is simplified. The methodology preprint is also added to the description and citation.

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