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

0.2.0

Efficient Sequential Testing with Evidence Ratios

0packages depend

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ladislas Nalborczyk2 releasesCRAN 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).

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

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.

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-ester

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-ESTER

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

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

10

Dependencies · direct

Documentation

READMEYes · 284 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 38%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 38%
References docs: 30%

Downloads

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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

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

–indirect (not tracked)

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Ladislas Nalborczyk

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Ladislas Nalborczyk

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

2 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-01-18
the maintainer's request
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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 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.0
2017-12-10 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2017-10-16
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

Total releases: 2
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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 August 13, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ESTER

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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 v2026-08-13. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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