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deconvolveR

1.2-1

Empirical Bayes Estimation Strategies

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Overview

About

Maintained by Balasubramanian NarasimhanFirst published 2016-12-013 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Empirical Bayes methods for learning prior distributions from data. An unknown prior distribution (g) has yielded (unobservable) parameters, each of which produces a data point from a parametric exponential family (f). The goal is to estimate the unknown prior ("g-modeling") by deconvolution and Empirical Bayes methods. Details and examples are in the paper by Narasimhan and Efron (2020, doi:10.18637/jss.v094.i11).

Install

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

install.packages("deconvolveR", 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("bnaras/deconvolveR")

Development version from bnaras/deconvolveR. 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-deconvolver

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

# 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-deconvolveR

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

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Slowest check: 4.6 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

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Documentation

READMEYes · 65 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 80%

Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ bnaras/deconvolver

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Dependencies

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4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 3.0

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Balasubramanian Narasimhan

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Authors (2)

Balasubramanian Narasimhan

Author, Maintainer

Bradley Efron

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-12-01
Total releases: 3 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0
Bundled data: 12 KB / 3 files
Download size: 1.7 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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