vmsae

0.1.2

Variational Multivariate Spatial Small Area Estimation

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Overview

About

Maintained by Zhenhua WangFirst published 2025-05-093 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Variational Autoencoded Multivariate Spatial Fay-Herriot models are designed to efficiently estimate population parameters in small area estimation. This package implements the variational generalized multivariate spatial Fay-Herriot model (VGMSFH) using 'NumPyro' and 'PyTorch' backends, as demonstrated by Wang, Parker, and Holan (2025) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2503.14710. The 'vmsae' package provides utility functions to load weights of the pretrained variational autoencoders (VAEs) as well as tools to train custom VAEs tailored to users specific applications.

Install

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

install.packages("vmsae", 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("zhenhua-wang/vmsae")

Development version from zhenhua-wang/vmsae. 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-vmsae

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-vmsae

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.3 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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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

Documentation

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Examples that run: 40%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 8%

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Repository

GitHub ↗ zhenhua-wang/vmsae

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76 commits · Last activity 2026-07-25

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (8)

dplyr ggplot2 gridExtra sf tidyr reticulatemethodsrlang

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People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Zhenhua Wang

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Authors (3)

Zhenhua Wang

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Scott H. Holan

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Paul A. Parker

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Package Timeline

3 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
0.1.2Latest
2025-10-09 · current release · diff ↗
0.1.1
2025-06-21 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2025-05-09
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-05-09
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 1.3 MB
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