R Observatory: Metrics for MNP version 3.1-6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MNP

3.1-6Package record

Fitting the Multinomial Probit Model

0packages dependsuggested by 1

37.6Kdownloads / year

80.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kosuke ImaiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Fits the Bayesian multinomial probit model via Markov chain Monte Carlo. The multinomial probit model is often used to analyze the discrete choices made by individuals recorded in survey data. Examples where the multinomial probit model may be useful include the analysis of product choice by consumers in market research and the analysis of candidate or party choice by voters in electoral studies. The MNP package can also fit the model with different choice sets for each individual, and complete or partial individual choice orderings of the available alternatives from the choice set. The estimation is based on the efficient marginal data augmentation algorithm that is developed by Imai and van Dyk (2005). "A Bayesian Analysis of the Multinomial Probit Model Using the Data Augmentation." Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 124, No. 2 (February), pp. 311-334. doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2004.02.002 Detailed examples are given in Imai and van Dyk (2005). "MNP: R Package for Fitting the Multinomial Probit Model." Journal of Statistical Software, Vol. 14, No. 3 (May), pp. 1-32. doi:10.18637/jss.v014.i03.

Install

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

install.packages("MNP", 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("kosukeimai/MNP")

Development version from kosukeimai/MNP. 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-mnp

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-MNP

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-MNP

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: 2.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-18

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NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-12
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.1-6

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Description cites a JSS article

Help pages: 8
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 25%

Vignettes (1)

MNP PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

37.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,202 · ~103/day · ~3.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.5K30 days

7.8K90 days

37.6K1 year

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Also on624 r2u6 autocran158 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

kosukeimai/mnp ↗Account: kosukeimai

13Stars

7Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

177Commits

5Commit identities

177 commits · Last activity 2026-07-14 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 650
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-04-27 · 132026-07-07 · 13

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/kosukeimai/mnp on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI (config file)

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (3)

R >= 2.1statsutils

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

WeightIt

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Kosuke Imai

Author, Maintainer since 1.0-1 (2004)

David van Dyk

Author · added in 3.0-1

Hubert Jin

Contributor · added in 3.0-2

Listed in earlier versions (2)

David A. van Dyk.

no longer listed · 1.0-1 to 2.6-4

Jordan Vance

no longer listed · 1.0-1 to 2.0-1

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Package metadata

First published: 2004-06-27
Total releases: 45 / 22 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.1
Bundled data: 31 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.7 MB

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Bayesian Inference Econometrics

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("MNP")

Format

Imai, K., Jin, H., & van Dyk, D. (2026). MNP: Fitting the Multinomial Probit Model (Version 3.1-6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.MNP

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for MNP version 3.1-6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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