R Observatory: Metrics for FlexReg version 1.4.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

FlexReg

1.4.2Package record

Regression Models for Bounded Continuous and Discrete Responses

0packages depend

4.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/11flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Roberto AscariCRAN page ↗

Functions to fit regression models for bounded continuous and discrete responses. In case of bounded continuous responses (e.g., proportions and rates), available models are the flexible beta (Migliorati, S., Di Brisco, A. M., Ongaro, A. (2018) doi:10.1214/17-BA1079), the variance-inflated beta (Di Brisco, A. M., Migliorati, S., Ongaro, A. (2020) doi:10.1177/1471082X18821213), the beta (Ferrari, S.L.P., Cribari-Neto, F. (2004) doi:10.1080/0266476042000214501), and their augmented versions to handle the presence of zero/one values (Di Brisco, A. M., Migliorati, S. (2020) doi:10.1002/sim.8406) are implemented. In case of bounded discrete responses (e.g., bounded counts, such as the number of successes in n trials), available models are the flexible beta-binomial (Ascari, R., Migliorati, S. (2021) doi:10.1002/sim.9005), the beta-binomial, and the binomial are implemented. Inference is dealt with a Bayesian approach based on the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm (Gelman, A., Carlin, J. B., Stern, H. S., Rubin, D. B. (2014) doi:10.1201/b16018). Besides, functions to compute residuals, posterior predictives, goodness of fit measures, convergence diagnostics, and graphical representations are provided.

Install

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

install.packages("FlexReg", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-flexreg

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-FlexReg

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-FlexReg

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

11OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 43.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK11 OK2026-08-05
NOTE10 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK11 OK2026-07-29
ERROR10 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-27
OK10 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE9 OK, 3 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR8 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE9 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.4.2

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 54 (26 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 24%5 run in a plain check · 16 never run
Exported functions with examples: 93%
Documented parameters: 85%
Return-value docs: 79%
Help pages citing references: 37%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,938 · ~12/day · ~367/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

35830 days

87790 days

4.4K1 year

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Also on475 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing FlexReg adds 61 packages (31 with compiled code, 66 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (9)

Formula bayesplot ggplot2 loomethodsRcpp RcppParallel rstan rstantools (>= 2.4.0)

LinkingTo (6)

BH Rcpp RcppEigen RcppParallel rstan StanHeaders (>= 2.18.0)

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Roberto Ascari

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2020)

Agnese M. Di Brisco

Author

Sonia Migliorati

Author

Andrea Ongaro

Author

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Di Brisco

no longer listed · 1.3.1 to 1.4.2

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.4.2Latest
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2026-02-04 · current release · diff ↗
1.4.1
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2025-09-11 · diff ↗
1.4
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2025-09-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 11 exports
model_frame, pBeta, pBetaBin, pFB, pFBB, pVIB, qBeta, qBetaBin, qFB, qFBB, qVIB
1.3.1
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2025-04-14 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.3.0
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2023-09-29 · diff ↗ ·
removed 10 exports
dBeta_mu, mu.chain.nd, phi.chain.nd, q.chain.nd, q0.chain.nd, q01.chain.nd, q1.chain.nd, rBeta_mu, theta.chain.nd, var.fun

added 2 exports
dBeta, rBeta
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.2
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2022-09-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
q.chain.nd, q0.chain.nd, q01.chain.nd, q1.chain.nd
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.1
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2022-01-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
dBetaBin, dFBB, flexreg_binom, rBetaBin, rFBB, theta.chain.nd
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0
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2020-11-05
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-11-05
Total releases: 8 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 36 KB / 6 files
Download size: 173 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("FlexReg")

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

It points to 10.1007/s00180-026-01720-y.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for FlexReg version 1.4.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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