adaptMCMC

1.5

Implementation of a Generic Adaptive Monte Carlo Markov Chain Sampler

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Overview

About

Maintained by Andreas ScheideggerFirst published 2011-12-098 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Enables sampling from arbitrary distributions if the log density is known up to a constant; a common situation in the context of Bayesian inference. The implemented sampling algorithm was proposed by Vihola (2012) DOI:10.1007/s11222-011-9269-5 and achieves often a high efficiency by tuning the proposal distributions to a user defined acceptance rate.

Install

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

install.packages("adaptMCMC", 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("scheidan/adaptMCMC")

Development version from scheidan/adaptMCMC. 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-adaptmcmc

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-adaptMCMC

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-adaptMCMC

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

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Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 40%

Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ scheidan/adaptmcmc

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License GPL-2.0 · 26 commits · Last activity 2024-01-29

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (4)

R >= 2.14.1parallelcodaMatrix

Imports (1)

ramcmc

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Package metadata

First published: 2011-12-09
Total releases: 8 / 15 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.14.1
Download size: 7.2 KB
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