ernest

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A Toolkit for Nested Sampling

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Overview

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Maintained by Kyle DewsnapFirst published 2026-06-302 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Bayesian evidence estimation and posterior inference with the nested sampling algorithm, described in Skilling (2006) doi:10.1214/06-BA127 and Buchner (2023) doi:10.1214/23-SS144, along with S3 methods for simulating uncertainty and creating visualisations.

Install

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

install.packages("ernest", 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("ropensci/ernest")

Development version from ropensci/ernest. 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-ernest

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-ernest

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Slowest check: 19.7 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

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ERROR2026-07-19
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OK2026-07-01
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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R >= 4.1.0

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cli generics ggplot2 lifecycle matrixStats posterior rlang vctrs withr

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Kyle Dewsnap

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Package Timeline

2 releases. R releases are shown for context.

1.2.5Latest
2026-07-07 · current release · diff ↗
1.2.4
2026-06-30
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-06-30
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
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