R Observatory: Metrics for ESTER version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2026-01-18. Its history is shown below.

Reason: the maintainer's request

Details below reflect version 0.2.0, its last release before removal.

ESTER

0.2.0Package record

Efficient Sequential Testing with Evidence Ratios

0packages depend

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ladislas NalborczykCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An implementation of sequential testing that uses evidence ratios computed from the weights of a set of models. These weights correspond either to Akaike weights computed from the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) or the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) and following Burnham & Anderson (2004, doi:10.1177/0049124104268644) recommendations, or to pseudo-BMA weights computed from the WAIC or the LOO-IC of models fitted with 'brms' and following Yao et al. (2017, arXiv:1704.02030v3).

Changes in 0.2.0

Major updates

deprecating distER.R (will be removed in the next release)
merging seqER.R and seqERboot.R into seqER.R, by adding a "nsims" argument in seqER.R
deprecating seqERboot.R (will be removed in the next release)
simER.R: parallelisation and update of the plot method
introducing the analysER.R function which allow to analyse the results of simulations ran with simER.R

Minor updates

doc updates
adding pseudo-BMA weights computations for brmsfit models in ictab.R
seqER.R now accepts brmsfit models
adding a "blind" argument to seqER.R to conduct triple blind analyses, with a "boundary" argument at which the sequential testing is stopped

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/ESTER/ESTER_0.2.0.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "ESTER_0.2.0.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (0.2.0) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("lnalborczyk/ESTER")

Development version from lnalborczyk/ESTER. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Health

CRAN checks

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Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 284 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 10includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 38%3 run in a plain check · 5 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 38%
Help pages citing references: 30%

How these are measured

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (10)

brms lme4 dplyr magrittr tidyr ggplot2 rlang foreach doParallel cowplot

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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People & History

People (1)

Ladislas Nalborczyk

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2017)

Releases (2)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-10-16
Total releases: 2 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ESTER")

Format

Nalborczyk, L. (n.d.). ESTER: Efficient Sequential Testing with Evidence Ratios (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ESTER

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ESTER version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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