LaplacesDemon

16.1.8

Complete Environment for Bayesian Inference

56packages depend

137Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Henrik SingmannFirst published 2011-01-0355 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides a complete environment for Bayesian inference using a variety of different samplers (see ?LaplacesDemon for an overview).

Install

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

install.packages("LaplacesDemon", 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("LaplacesDemonR/LaplacesDemon")

Development version from LaplacesDemonR/LaplacesDemon. 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-laplacesdemon

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-LaplacesDemon

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-LaplacesDemon

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 8.6 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 91%
References docs: 47%

Downloads

137K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,137 · ~375/day · ~11.4K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ laplacesdemonr/laplacesdemon

98Stars

24Forks

23Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

215Commits

21Contributors

215 commits · Last activity 2026-02-17 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/laplacesdemonr/laplacesdemon on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (5)

parallelgrDevicesgraphicsstatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

KernSmooth

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

56direct

15indirect

and 8 more packages.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 28,630 (46%)Rd 22,182 (36%)Other 11,012 (18%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S334

Cyclomatic complexity: 5.0 median / 437 max

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

428 391 exported

Complexity

13.4 avg / 437 max

Call network

428 nodes / 503 edges

Call graph

Open call graph →

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Lowest coverage

Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 5

Name	Class	Rows × Cols	Also ships in
demonchoice	data.frame	151 × 9	–
demonfx	data.frame	1,301 × 39	–
demonsessions	data.frame	26 × 6	–
demonsnacks	data.frame	39 × 8	–
demontexas	data.frame	369 × 43	–

People & History

People (11)

Maintainer (1)

Henrik Singmann

Maintainer · added in 16.0.1

Authors (3)

Byron Hall

Author

Martina Hall

Author · added in 16.0.1

Statisticat, LLC

Author, Copyright holder · added in 16.0.1

Contributors (7)

Eric Brown

Contributor · added in 16.0.1

Emmanuel Charpentier

Contributor · added in 16.0.1

Charles J. Geyer

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 16.1.8

Quentin F. Gronau

Contributor · added in 16.1.0

Daniel Heck

Contributor · added in 16.1.0

Richard Hermanson

Contributor · added in 16.0.1

Stephane Laurent

Contributor · added in 16.1.0

Statisticat, LLC

Author, Copyright holder · added in 16.0.1

Charles J. Geyer

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 16.1.8

Listed in earlier versions (2)

LLC

no longer listed · 12.11.05 to 13.03.04

Statisticat

no longer listed · 12.11.05 to 13.03.04

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Package metadata

First published: 2011-01-03
Total releases: 55 / 15 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Bundled data: 442 KB / 5 files
Download size: 2.0 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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