STARTS

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Functions for the STARTS Model

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Overview

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Maintained by Alexander RobitzschFirst published 2017-05-1210 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Contains functions for estimating the STARTS model of Kenny and Zautra (1995, 2001) DOI:10.1037/0022-006X.63.1.52, DOI:10.1037/10409-008. Penalized maximum likelihood estimation and Markov Chain Monte Carlo estimation are also provided, see Luedtke, Robitzsch and Wagner (2018) DOI:10.1037/met0000155.

Install

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

install.packages("STARTS", 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("alexanderrobitzsch/STARTS")

Development version from alexanderrobitzsch/STARTS. 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-starts

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-STARTS

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-STARTS

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

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Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 50%
References docs: 75%

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R >= 3.1

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Listed in earlier versions (4)

Oliver Luedtke

no longer listed · 0.0-9 to 1.2-35

Alexander Robitzsch

no longer listed · 0.0-9 to 1.2-35

Alexander Robitzsch ()

no longer listed · 1.3-8

Oliver Luedtke ()

no longer listed · 1.3-8

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-05-12
Total releases: 10 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1
Bundled data: 53 KB / 7 files
Download size: 96 KB
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