mixvlmc

0.2.2

Variable Length Markov Chains with Covariates

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Overview

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Maintained by Fabrice RossiFirst published 2023-07-104 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Estimates Variable Length Markov Chains (VLMC) models and VLMC with covariates models from discrete sequences. Supports model selection via information criteria and simulation of new sequences from an estimated model. See Bühlmann, P. and Wyner, A. J. (1999) doi:10.1214/aos/1018031204 for VLMC and Zanin Zambom, A., Kim, S. and Lopes Garcia, N. (2022) doi:10.1111/jtsa.12615 for VLMC with covariates.

Install

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

install.packages("mixvlmc", 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("fabrice-rossi/mixvlmc")

Development version from fabrice-rossi/mixvlmc. 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-mixvlmc

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-mixvlmc

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

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19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 2.10

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Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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Package metadata

First published: 2023-07-10
Total releases: 4 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 2.3 MB
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