robmed

1.3.0

(Robust) Mediation Analysis

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Overview

About

Maintained by Andreas AlfonsFirst published 2016-09-1221 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Perform mediation analysis via the fast-and-robust bootstrap test ROBMED (Alfons, Ates & Groenen, 2022a; doi:10.1177/1094428121999096), as well as various other methods. Details on the implementation and code examples can be found in Alfons, Ates, and Groenen (2022b) doi:10.18637/jss.v103.i13. Further discussion on robust mediation analysis can be found in Alfons & Schley (2025) doi:10.1002/wics.70051.

Install

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

install.packages("robmed", 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("aalfons/robmed")

Development version from aalfons/robmed. 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-robmed

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-robmed

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 8.0 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Check history

OK2026-06-09
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ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Repository

GitHub ↗ aalfons/robmed

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License GPL-3.0 · 532 commits · Last activity 2025-12-09

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (3)

R >= 3.5.0ggplot2 robustbase

Imports (6)

bootgridmethodsquantreg sn (>= 1.5-4)utils

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knitr testthat

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People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Andreas Alfons

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Andreas Alfons

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Other (1)

Nufer Y. Ates

Data contributor · added in 0.10.0

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-09-12
Total releases: 21 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 785 KB
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