fido

1.1.2

Bayesian Multinomial Logistic Normal Regression

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4.2Kdownloads / year

72.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Justin SilvermanFirst published 2022-02-168 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides methods for fitting and inspection of Bayesian Multinomial Logistic Normal Models using MAP estimation and Laplace Approximation as developed in Silverman et. Al. (2022) https://www.jmlr.org/papers/v23/19-882.html. Key functionality is implemented in C++ for scalability. 'fido' replaces the previous package 'stray'.

Install

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

install.packages("fido", 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("jsilve24/fido")

Development version from jsilve24/fido. 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-fido

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 14.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-06-09
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NOTE2026-04-22
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ERROR2026-04-18
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NOTE2026-03-10
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Repository

GitHub ↗ jsilve24/fido

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548 commits · Last activity 2026-05-22

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Checks run against github.com/jsilve24/fido on 2026-07-19.

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (7)

Rcpp dplyr ggplot2 purrr tidybayes rlang tidyr

LinkingTo (5)

Rcpp RcppEigen RcppNumerical RcppZiggurat BH

Suggests (8)

testthat knitr rmarkdown ape numDeriv LaplacesDemon MCMCpack phyloseq

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

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People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Justin Silverman

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Justin Silverman

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (2)

Michelle Nixon

Contributor

Kim Roche

Contributor

Package Timeline

8 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.1.2Latest
2025-02-27 · current release · diff ↗
1.1.1
2024-06-05 · diff ↗
1.1.0
2024-05-30 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.4
2023-03-24 · diff ↗
1.0.3
2022-08-23 · diff ↗
1.0.2
2022-07-06 · diff ↗
1.0.1
2022-05-17 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.0
2022-02-16
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-02-16
Total releases: 8 / 4 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 2.3 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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