bayesplot

1.15.0

Plotting for Bayesian Models

102packages depend

1.8Mdownloads / year

98.7%test coverage

9/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jonah GabryFirst published 2016-11-1820 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Plotting functions for posterior analysis, MCMC diagnostics, prior and posterior predictive checks, and other visualizations to support the applied Bayesian workflow advocated in Gabry, Simpson, Vehtari, Betancourt, and Gelman (2019) doi:10.1111/rssa.12378. The package is designed not only to provide convenient functionality for users, but also a common set of functions that can be easily used by developers working on a variety of R packages for Bayesian modeling, particularly (but not exclusively) packages interfacing with 'Stan'.

Install

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

install.packages("bayesplot", 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("stan-dev/bayesplot")

Development version from stan-dev/bayesplot. 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-bayesplot

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-bayesplot

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-bayesplot

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

Health

CRAN checks

4NOTE9OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 13.0 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.37

98.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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NOTE2026-03-10
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Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 84%
Documented parameters: 71%
Return-value docs: 94%
References docs: 54%

Downloads

1.8M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #206 · ~4.9K/day · ~148.5K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ stan-dev/bayesplot

440Stars

94Forks

59Open issues

16Open PRs

19Releases

2,367Commits

42Contributors

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License GPL-3.0 · 2,367 commits · Last activity 2026-07-17 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/stan-dev/bayesplot on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

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Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

Lint, format, editor (1)

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Governance and community (1)

Funding

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

25 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (12)

dplyr ggplot2 ggridges glue posterior reshape2 rlangstatstibble (>= 2.0.0)tidyr tidyselectutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (16)

ggdist ggfortify gridExtra hexbin knitr (>= 1.16)loo RColorBrewer rmarkdown rstan rstanarm rstantools scales shinystansurvivaltestthat vdiffr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

102direct

56indirect

and 54 more packages.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 19,199 (70%)Rd 6,667 (24%)Vignettes 1,613 (6%)Other 14 (0%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S336

Cyclomatic complexity: 2.0 median / 16 max
Test cases: 311 / 0.37 per code line
System requirements: 2 external

Test coverage

Line coverage

99%

Expression

97.5%

Tests / Examples

98.7% / – ex

Functions

373 162 exported

Complexity

2.5 avg / 16 max

Call network

373 nodes / 1115 edges

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Lowest coverage

373 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
capitalize_first	1	0%
log_posterior.CmdStanMCMC	1	0%
modify_aes_	1	0%
neff_ratio.CmdStanMCMC	1	0%
nuts_params.CmdStanMCMC	2	0%
parameter_names.default	1	0%

People & History

People (11)

Maintainer (1)

Jonah Gabry

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Jonah Gabry

Author, Maintainer

Tristan Mahr

Author · added in 1.4.0

Contributors (9)

Malcolm Barrett

Contributor · added in 1.6.0

Paul-Christian Bürkner

Contributor · added in 1.6.0

Eduardo Coronado Sroka

Contributor · added in 1.8.0

Martin Modrák

Contributor · added in 1.6.0

Teemu Sailynoja

Contributor · added in 1.10.0

Visruth Srimath Kandali

Contributor · added in 1.15.0

Behram Ulukır

Contributor · added in 1.14.0

Aki Vehtari

Contributor · added in 1.8.0

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Frank Weber

Contributor · added in 1.8.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Paul-Christian Buerkner

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.5.0

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-11-18
Total releases: 20 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 4.9 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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