R Observatory: Metrics for LaplacesDemon version 16.1.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

LaplacesDemon

16.1.8

Complete Environment for Bayesian Inference

48packages dependsuggested by 10

126.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Henrik SingmannCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides a complete environment for Bayesian inference using a variety of different samplers (see ?LaplacesDemon for an overview).

Install

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

install.packages("LaplacesDemon", 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("LaplacesDemonR/LaplacesDemon")

Development version from LaplacesDemonR/LaplacesDemon. 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-laplacesdemon

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-LaplacesDemon

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-LaplacesDemon

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 8.6 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 16.1.8

READMEYes · 225 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 184includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 73%109 run in a plain check · 41 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 85%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 91%
Help pages citing references: 47%

How these are measured

Downloads

126.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,223 · ~347/day · ~10.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

8.8K30 days

25.9K90 days

126.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.1K r2u5 autocran8.6K conda_forge388 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

laplacesdemonr/laplacesdemon ↗Organization: LaplacesDemonR

98Stars

24Forks

23Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

215Commits

21Commit identities

215 commits · Last activity 2026-02-17 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 92%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 31
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-10-09 · 952026-07-07 · 98

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/laplacesdemonr/laplacesdemon on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing LaplacesDemon adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (5)

parallelgrDevicesgraphicsstatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

KernSmooth

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

48direct

17indirect

Depends 3 · Imports 45

Suggested by 10

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 10 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (11)

Henrik Singmann

Maintainer since 16.0.1 (2016) · added in 16.0.1

Byron Hall

Author

Martina Hall

Author · added in 16.0.1

Statisticat, LLC

Author, Copyright holder · added in 16.0.1

Eric Brown

Contributor · added in 16.0.1

Emmanuel Charpentier

Contributor · added in 16.0.1

Charles J. Geyer

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 16.1.8

for TR method in LaplaceApproximation, derived from trust::trust

Quentin F. Gronau

Contributor · added in 16.1.0

Daniel Heck

Contributor · added in 16.1.0

Richard Hermanson

Contributor · added in 16.0.1

Stephane Laurent

Contributor · added in 16.1.0

Previously maintained by Martina Hall (12.12.03 to 13.03.04) and Statisticat, LLC (10.12.30 to 12.11.05).

Listed in earlier versions (2)

LLC

no longer listed · 12.11.05 to 13.03.04

Statisticat

no longer listed · 12.11.05 to 13.03.04

Releases (55)

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Package metadata

First published: 2011-01-03
Total releases: 55 / 15 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL-2 in 16.0.1
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Bundled data: 442 KB / 5 files
Download size: 2.0 MB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for LaplacesDemon version 16.1.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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