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Bayesian Linear Mixed-Effects Models

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131.9Kdownloads / year

73.2%test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Vincent DorieFirst published 2011-06-2114 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Maximum a posteriori estimation for linear and generalized linear mixed-effects models in a Bayesian setting, implementing the methods of Chung, et al. (2013) doi:10.1007/s11336-013-9328-2. Extends package 'lme4' (Bates, Maechler, Bolker, and Walker (2015) doi:10.18637/jss.v067.i01).

Install

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

install.packages("blme", 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("vdorie/blme")

Development version from vdorie/blme. 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-blme

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-blme

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-blme

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Failing flavors

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Slowest check: 3.0 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

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Tests · ratio 0.20

73.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

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Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 21%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 33%

Downloads

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Repository

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.0-0lme4

Imports (3)

methodsstatsutils

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none

Suggests (2)

expint testthat

Enhances (0)

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Reverse dependencies

9direct

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brxx eirm merTools phoenics glmmTMB insight marginaleffects miceadds parameters

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Vincent Dorie

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Vincent Dorie

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (4)

Douglas Bates

Contributor · added in 1.0-5

Ben Bolker

Contributor · added in 1.0-5

Martin Maechler

Contributor · added in 1.0-5

Steven Walker

Contributor · added in 1.0-5

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Package metadata

First published: 2011-06-21
Total releases: 14 / 15 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 41 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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