R Observatory: Metrics for makemyprior version 1.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

makemyprior

1.2.2

Intuitive Construction of Joint Priors for Variance Parameters

0packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ingeborg HemFirst published 2021-05-186 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Tool for easy prior construction and visualization. It helps to formulates joint prior distributions for variance parameters in latent Gaussian models. The resulting prior is robust and can be created in an intuitive way. A graphical user interface (GUI) can be used to choose the joint prior, where the user can click through the model and select priors. An extensive guide is available in the GUI. The package allows for direct inference with the specified model and prior. Using a hierarchical variance decomposition, we formulate a joint variance prior that takes the whole model structure into account. In this way, existing knowledge can intuitively be incorporated at the level it applies to. Alternatively, one can use independent variance priors for each model components in the latent Gaussian model. Details can be found in the accompanying scientific paper: Hem, Fuglstad, Riebler (2024, Journal of Statistical Software, doi:10.18637/jss.v110.i03).

Install

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

install.packages("makemyprior", 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("ingebogh/makemyprior")

Development version from ingebogh/makemyprior. 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-makemyprior

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-makemyprior

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-makemyprior

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.8 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.00

0.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

9

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-30
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-10
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 158 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 94%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,986 · ~7/day · ~216/mo

Releases R versions

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15430 days

64990 days

2.6K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ingebogh/makemyprior

3Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

28Commits

4Contributors

28 commits · Last activity 2024-08-23 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-02-19 · 22026-07-07 · 3

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Checks run against github.com/ingebogh/makemyprior on 2026-08-03.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (9)

ggplot2Matrixmethodsshiny shinyjs shinyBS visNetwork rlangMASS

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

rstan INLA knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Ingeborg Hem

Maintainer, Author · added in 1.2.0

Authors (3)

Ingeborg Hem

Maintainer, Author · added in 1.2.0

Geir-Arne Fuglstad

Author

Andrea Riebler

Author

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Ingeborg Gullikstad Hem

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.1.0

Package Timeline

6 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. 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
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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2022-02-21 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-05-18
Total releases: 6 / 5 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Additional repositories: inla.r-inla-download.org
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Bundled data: 194 KB / 3 files
Download size: 1.1 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Start here. This is the citation for the package itself.

citation("makemyprior")

CRAN DOI

https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.makemyprior

BibTeX, derived from DESCRIPTION

@Manual{makemyprior,
  title  = {makemyprior: Intuitive Construction of Joint Priors for Variance Parameters},
  author = {Hem, Ingeborg and Fuglstad, Geir-Arne and Riebler, Andrea},
  year   = {2024},
  note   = {R package version 1.2.2},
  doi    = {10.32614/CRAN.package.makemyprior},
  url    = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=makemyprior}
}

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This is the citation for the package. It is not a citation for the R Observatory.

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BibTeX

@misc{robservatorymakemyprior,
  author    = {Balamuta, James Joseph},
  title     = {{R} {Observatory}: Metrics for {makemyprior} version 1.2.2},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {HJJB, LLC},
  url       = {https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/makemyprior},
  note      = {Data set. Data release v2026-08-05}
}

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for makemyprior version 1.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-05. https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/makemyprior

RIS

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PB  - HJJB, LLC
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In prose

These package metrics were obtained from the R Observatory (Balamuta, 2026), data release v2026-08-05, https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/makemyprior.

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