R Observatory: Metrics for MCMCpack version 1.7-1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MCMCpack

1.7-1Package record

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Package

93packages dependsuggested by 19

268.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jong Hee ParkCRAN page ↗

Contains functions to perform Bayesian inference using posterior simulation for a number of statistical models. Most simulation is done in compiled C++ written in the Scythe Statistical Library Version 1.0.3. All models return 'coda' mcmc objects that can then be summarized using the 'coda' package. Some useful utility functions such as density functions, pseudo-random number generators for statistical distributions, a general purpose Metropolis sampling algorithm, and tools for visualization are provided.

Install

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

install.packages("MCMCpack", 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-mcmcpack

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-MCMCpack

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-MCMCpack

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: 12.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-24
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-11
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

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Documentation

In release 1.7-1

READMEYes · 229 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 75
Examples that run: 15%9 run in a plain check · 53 never run
Exported functions with examples: 90%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 93%
Help pages citing references: 71%

How these are measured

Downloads

268.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #730 · ~735/day · ~22.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

23.3K30 days

70.3K90 days

268.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing MCMCpack adds 5 packages (3 with compiled code, 3.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: mcmc 1.5 MB, quantreg 903 KB, SparseM 540 KB.

Depends (4)

R >= 3.6codaMASSstats

Imports (7)

graphicsgrDeviceslatticemethodsutilsmcmc quantreg

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

93direct

24indirect

Depends 10 · Imports 83

Suggested by 19

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 45 more dependents and 19 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (16)

Jong Hee Park

Author, Maintainer since 1.1-3 (2011) · added in 0.9-2

Andrew D. Martin

Author

Kevin M. Quinn

Author

Matthew Blackwell

Contributor · added in 1.4-0

Ben Goodrich

Contributor · added in 1.4-3

Michael Malecki

Contributor · added in 1.4-0

Keith Poole

Contributor · added in 1.4-3

Craig Reed

Contributor · added in 1.4-3

Ghislain Vieilledent

Contributor · added in 1.4-0

Qiushi Yu

Contributor · added in 1.6-0

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