R Observatory: Metrics for MCMCvis version 0.16.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MCMCvis

0.16.5Package record

Tools to Visualize, Manipulate, and Summarize MCMC Output

4packages dependsuggested by 1

19.6Kdownloads / year

18.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Casey YoungfleshCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Performs key functions for MCMC analysis using minimal code - visualizes, manipulates, and summarizes MCMC output. Functions support simple and straightforward subsetting of model parameters within the calls, and produce presentable and 'publication-ready' output. MCMC output may be derived from Bayesian model output fit with Stan, NIMBLE, JAGS, and other software.

Changes in 0.16.5

MCMCtrace fix bug opening .pdf when filename has spaces
MCMCtrace display both bulk and tail n.eff when available
MCMCplot add rank_dir arg to specify direction of ranked caterpillar plot

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("MCMCvis", 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("caseyyoungflesh/MCMCvis")

Development version from caseyyoungflesh/MCMCvis. 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-mcmcvis

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-MCMCvis

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-MCMCvis

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: 2.6 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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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.16.5

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.16.5Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 9includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 17%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

MCMCvis

How these are measured

Downloads

19.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,351 · ~54/day · ~1.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.2K30 days

3.4K90 days

19.6K1 year

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Also on403 r2u4 autocran170 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

caseyyoungflesh/mcmcvis ↗Account: caseyyoungflesh

39Stars

4Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

9Releases

756Commits

6Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 756 commits · Last activity 2025-11-25 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 16
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-03 · 382026-07-07 · 39

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/caseyyoungflesh/mcmcvis on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing MCMCvis adds 61 packages (28 with compiled code, 49 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, loo 2.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (5)

coda rstanmethodsoverlapping colorspace

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown testthat cmdstanr posterior

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

Imports 4

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

epts eefAnalytics ameras metainsight

Suggests, most downloaded first

ct

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Casey Youngflesh

Author, Maintainer since 0.6.3 (2016)

Christian Che-Castaldo

Author · added in 0.11.0

Tyler Hardy

Contributor · added in 0.11.0

Releases (27)

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-10-06
Total releases: 27 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Additional repositories: mc-stan.org
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 1.8 MB / 2 files
Download size: 4.1 MB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("MCMCvis")

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

It points to 10.21105/joss.00640.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for MCMCvis version 0.16.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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