bang

1.0.4

Bayesian Analysis, No Gibbs

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30.9Kdownloads / year

93.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul J. NorthropFirst published 2017-11-205 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides functions for the Bayesian analysis of some simple commonly-used models, without using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods such as Gibbs sampling. The 'rust' package https://cran.r-project.org/package=rust is used to simulate a random sample from the required posterior distribution, using the generalized ratio-of-uniforms method. See Wakefield, Gelfand and Smith (1991) DOI:10.1007/BF01889987 for details. At the moment three conjugate hierarchical models are available: beta-binomial, gamma-Poisson and a 1-way analysis of variance (ANOVA).

Install

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

install.packages("bang", 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("paulnorthrop/bang")

Development version from paulnorthrop/bang. 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-bang

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-bang

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-bang

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 5.0 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.40

93.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 200 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 50%

Downloads

30.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,456 · ~85/day · ~2.6K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ paulnorthrop/bang

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Checks run against github.com/paulnorthrop/bang on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsAppVeyor

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (4)

bayesplotgraphicsruststats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

ggplot2 knitrMASSrmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

rust

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Paul J. Northrop

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (2)

Paul J. Northrop

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Benjamin D. Hall

Author, Copyright holder

Paul J. Northrop

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Benjamin D. Hall

Author, Copyright holder

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Benjamin D.

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.0.4

Paul J.

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.0.4

Package Timeline

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-20
Total releases: 5 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Bundled data: 7.2 KB / 6 files
Download size: 246 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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