tmbstan

1.1.0

MCMC Sampling from 'TMB' Model Object using 'Stan'

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Overview

About

Maintained by Kasper KristensenFirst published 2017-12-199 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Enables all 'rstan' functionality for a 'TMB' model object, in particular MCMC sampling and chain visualization. Sampling can be performed with or without Laplace approximation for the random effects. This is demonstrated in Monnahan & Kristensen (2018) DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0197954.

Install

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

install.packages("tmbstan", 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("kaskr/tmbstan")

Development version from kaskr/tmbstan. 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-tmbstan

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-tmbstan

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-tmbstan

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Slowest check: 6.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

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

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Repository

GitHub ↗ kaskr/tmbstan

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117 commits · Last activity 2026-07-18 · +3% stars, 30d

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 4.5.0rstan

Imports (3)

methodsRcpp TMB

LinkingTo (7)

StanHeaders rstan BH Rcpp RcppEigen TMB RcppParallel

Suggests (1)

RTMB

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BayesGP hmmTMB DAST SAMtool salmonMSE

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Kasper Kristensen

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Authors (1)

Kasper Kristensen

Author, Maintainer

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-12-19
Total releases: 9 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.5.0
Download size: 16 KB
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