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bbmle

1.0.25.1

Tools for General Maximum Likelihood Estimation

36packages depend

406.9Kdownloads / year

61.4%test coverage

6/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ben BolkerFirst published 2007-02-2048 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Methods and functions for fitting maximum likelihood models in R. This package modifies and extends the 'mle' classes in the 'stats4' package.

Install

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

install.packages("bbmle", 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("bbolker/bbmle")

Development version from bbolker/bbmle. 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-bbmle

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-bbmle

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-bbmle

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

Health

CRAN checks

2ERROR5NOTE6OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64
NOTE r-release-macos-arm64

Slowest check: 6.5 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.50

61.4%

Coverage · measured lines

96%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

ERROR2026-07-22
6 OK · 5 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
13 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 77%
References docs: 10%

Downloads

406.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #643 · ~1.1K/day · ~33.9K/mo

Releases R versions

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30.3K30 days

99K90 days

406.9K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ bbolker/bbmle

25Stars

13Forks

13Open issues

1Open PRs

1Releases

95Commits

4Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 95 commits · Last activity 2026-07-19

Stars over time

2025-06-05 · 252026-07-07 · 25

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/bbolker/bbmle on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.0.0stats4

Imports (8)

statsnumDerivlatticeMASSmethodsbdsmatrixMatrixmvtnorm

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

emdbook rms ggplot2 RUnit MuMIn AICcmodavg Hmisc optimx knitr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

36direct

105indirect

Code & Tests

Code Composition

Other 4,244 (39%)R 4,234 (39%)Rd 1,419 (13%)Vignettes 1,030 (9%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S37S4 class4S4 generic9S4 method30

Cyclomatic complexity: 2.0 median / 100 max
Test cases: 6 / 1.50 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

61%

Expression

61.9%

Tests / Examples

61.4% / 64% ex

Functions

44 25 exported

Complexity

9.3 avg / 100 max

Call network

44 nodes / 23 edges

Call graph

Open call graph →

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Lowest coverage

44 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
BICtab exp	2	0%
dnorm_n exp	1	0%
sbeta exp	1	0%
sbetabinom exp	1	0%
slice exp	1	0%
slice1D exp	5	0%

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Ben Bolker

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Ben Bolker

Author, Maintainer

R Development Core Team

Author · added in 1.0.22

Contributors (1)

Iago Giné-Vázquez

Contributor · added in 1.0.22

Listed in earlier versions (4)

modifying code by Peter Dalgaard

no longer listed · 2.5.0 to 0.6

other R-core members

no longer listed · 2.5.0 to 0.6

based on stats4 by the R Development Core Team

no longer listed · 0.7 to 2.7.0

Ben Bolker; based on stats4 by the R Development Core Team

no longer listed · 2.7.2 to 0.9.5.1

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2007-02-20
Total releases: 48 / 19 yrs
License: GPL
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 517 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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