R Observatory: Metrics for CARBayes version 6.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

CARBayes

6.1.1Package record

Spatial Generalised Linear Mixed Models for Areal Unit Data

2packages depend

13.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Duncan LeeCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Implements a class of univariate and multivariate spatial generalised linear mixed models for areal unit data, with inference in a Bayesian setting using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation using a single or multiple Markov chains. The response variable can be binomial, Gaussian, multinomial, Poisson or zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP), and spatial autocorrelation is modelled by a set of random effects that are assigned a conditional autoregressive (CAR) prior distribution. A number of different models are available for univariate spatial data, including models with no random effects as well as random effects modelled by different types of CAR prior, including the BYM model (Besag et al., 1991, doi:10.1007/BF00116466) and Leroux model (Leroux et al., 2000, doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-1284-3_4). Additionally, a multivariate CAR (MCAR) model for multivariate spatial data is available, as is a two-level hierarchical model for modelling data relating to individuals within areas. Full details are given in the vignette accompanying this package. The initial creation of this package was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) grant RES-000-22-4256, and on-going development has been supported by the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) grant EP/J017442/1, ESRC grant ES/K006460/1, Innovate UK / Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) grant NE/N007352/1 and the TB Alliance.

Install

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

install.packages("CARBayes", 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("duncanplee/CARBayes")

Development version from duncanplee/CARBayes. 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-carbayes

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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-CARBayes

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-CARBayes

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Duncan Lee <Duncan.Lee@glasgow.ac.uk>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = "Duncan",
                    family = "Lee",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "duncan.lee@glasgow.ac.uk")
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 13.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 6.1.1

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 15includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 80%8 run in a plain check · 2 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 47%

Vignettes (1)

Vignette for CARBayes package. PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

13.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,581 · ~38/day · ~1.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.1K30 days

2.9K90 days

13.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on404 r2u14 autocran148 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

duncanplee/carbayes ↗Account: duncanplee

16Stars

7Forks

6Open issues

2Open PRs

0Releases

17Commits

1Commit identities

17 commits · Last activity 2021-09-30 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (5.2.5) than CRAN on 2026-10-21

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2023-10-23 · 142026-07-07 · 16

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/duncanplee/carbayes on 2026-10-21.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing CARBayes adds 115 packages (64 with compiled code, 117 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (3)

R >= 3.5.0MASSRcpp

Imports (16)

CARBayesdata coda dplyr GGally glmnet igraph mapview MCMCpackparallelRColorBrewer sf spam spdepstatstruncnormutils

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

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How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Duncan Lee

Maintainer since 1.0 (2012)

Releases (37)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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MVS.CARleroux
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S.CARiar, S.independent
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S.CARcluster

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S.CARlocalised
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print.carbayes
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bymCAR.re, clusterCAR.re, dissimilarityCAR.re, iarCAR.re, independent.re, lerouxCAR.re, properCAR.re

added 8 exports
S.CARbym, S.CARcluster, S.CARdissimilarity, S.CARiar, S.CARleroux, S.independent, summarise.lincomb, summarise.samples
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poisson.independent, poisson.iarCAR, poisson.lerouxCAR, poisson.properCAR, poisson.bymCAR, poisson.dissimilarityCAR, gaussian.independent, gaussian.iarCAR, gaussian.lerouxCAR, gaussian.properCAR, gaussian.bymCAR, gaussian.dissimilarityCAR, binomial.independent, binomial.iarCAR, binomial.lerouxCAR, binomial.properCAR, binomial.bymCAR, binomial.dissimilarityCAR

added 7 exports
bymCAR.re, clusterCAR.re, dissimilarityCAR.re, iarCAR.re, independent.re, lerouxCAR.re, properCAR.re
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poisson.dissimilarityCARbinary, poisson.dissimilarityCARcontinuous, poisson.priorWCAR, gaussian.dissimilarityCARbinary, gaussian.dissimilarityCARcontinuous, gaussian.priorWCAR, binomial.dissimilarityCARbinary, binomial.dissimilarityCARcontinuous, binomial.priorWCAR, geary.permutation, moran.permutation, W.prior.elicit

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poisson.dissimilarityCAR, gaussian.dissimilarityCAR, binomial.dissimilarityCAR, combine.data.shapefile, highlight.borders
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poisson.localisedbinaryCAR, poisson.localisedcontinuousCAR, gaussian.localisedbinaryCAR, gaussian.localisedcontinuousCAR, binomial.localisedbinaryCAR, binomial.localisedcontinuousCAR

added 11 exports
poisson.dissimilarityCARbinary, poisson.dissimilarityCARcontinuous, poisson.priorWCAR, gaussian.dissimilarityCARbinary, gaussian.dissimilarityCARcontinuous, gaussian.priorWCAR, binomial.dissimilarityCARbinary, binomial.dissimilarityCARcontinuous, binomial.priorWCAR, geary.permutation, W.prior.elicit
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Package metadata

First published: 2012-03-27
Total releases: 37 / 14 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 4.3 MB

Appears in task views

Bayesian Inference Analysis of Spatial Data

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("CARBayes")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.18637/jss.v055.i13.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for CARBayes version 6.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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