R Observatory: Metrics for MCMCglmm version 2.36

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MCMCglmm

2.36Package record

MCMC Generalised Linear Mixed Models

8packages dependsuggested by 17

125Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jarrod HadfieldCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Fits Multivariate Generalised Linear Mixed Models (and related models) using Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques (Hadfield 2010 J. Stat. Soft.).

Install

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

install.packages("MCMCglmm", 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("jarrodhadfield/MCMCglmm")

Development version from jarrodhadfield/MCMCglmm. 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-mcmcglmm

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-MCMCglmm

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-MCMCglmm

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: ‘Jarrod Hadfield <j.hadfield@ed.ac.uk>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = "Jarrod",
                    family = "Hadfield",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "j.hadfield@ed.ac.uk")
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.36

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publication

Help pages: 49includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 97%32 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 79%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 95%
Help pages citing references: 33%

How these are measured

Downloads

125K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,233 · ~343/day · ~10.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

8K30 days

25.4K90 days

125K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on2.6K r2u177 autocran5.9K conda_forge218 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

jarrodhadfield/mcmcglmm ↗Account: jarrodhadfield

5Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

219Commits

3Commit identities

219 commits · Last activity 2026-04-16 · Default branch at 2.37, ahead of CRAN 2.36 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 66

Stars over time

2025-05-07 · 52026-07-07 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/jarrodhadfield/mcmcglmm on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-04-16 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing MCMCglmm adds 7 packages (5 with compiled code, 6.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: cubature 3.2 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, ape 1.4 MB.

Depends (3)

Matrixcoda ape

Imports (4)

corpcor tensorA cubaturemethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

rgl combinat mvtnorm orthopolynom MCMCpack bayesm msm

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

8direct

1indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 7

Suggested by 17

Show all 25 packagesHide all 25 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

scan BiostatsUHNplus BayesMultiMode StempCens NO.PING.PONG ref.ICAR MCMC.qpcr pedtricks

Suggests, most downloaded first

insight parameters brms broom.mixed marginaleffects gap ggeffects phyr miceadds tidybayes rotl agridat dispRity ecostats prepR4pcm gaawr2 pigauto

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

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

Jarrod Hadfield

Maintainer since 1.0 (2009)

Releases (64)

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Package metadata

First published: 2009-01-27
Total releases: 64 / 17 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Bundled data: 28 KB / 6 files
Download size: 165 KB

Appears in task views

Bayesian Inference Mixed, Multilevel, and Hierarchical Models in R Phylogenetics Psychometric Models and Methods Survival Analysis

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citation("MCMCglmm")

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for MCMCglmm version 2.36 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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