R Observatory: Metrics for NeuralEstimators version 0.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

NeuralEstimators

0.2.2Package record

Likelihood-Free Parameter Estimation using Neural Networks

1packages depend

3.6Kdownloads / year

1.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Matthew Sainsbury-DaleCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗

An 'R' interface to the 'Julia' package 'NeuralEstimators.jl'. The package facilitates the user-friendly development of neural Bayes estimators, which are neural networks that map data to a point summary of the posterior distribution (Sainsbury-Dale et al., 2024, doi:10.1080/00031305.2023.2249522). These estimators are likelihood-free and amortised, in the sense that, once the neural networks are trained on simulated data, inference from observed data can be made in a fraction of the time required by conventional approaches. The package also supports amortised Bayesian or frequentist inference using neural networks that approximate the posterior or likelihood-to-evidence ratio (Zammit-Mangion et al., 2025, Sec. 3.2, 5.2, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2404.12484). The package accommodates any model for which simulation is feasible by allowing users to define models implicitly through simulated data.

Install

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

install.packages("NeuralEstimators", 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("msainsburydale/NeuralEstimators")

Development version from msainsburydale/NeuralEstimators. 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-neuralestimators

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-NeuralEstimators

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-NeuralEstimators

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: 1.7 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
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.2

READMEYes · 287 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · staticNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Help pages: 24 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%6 never run
Exported functions with examples: 26%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

3.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,486 · ~10/day · ~302/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

49630 days

1.1K90 days

3.6K1 year

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Also on100 r2u11 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

msainsburydale/neuralestimators ↗Account: msainsburydale

15Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

98Commits

7Commit identities

98 commits · Last activity 2026-09-08 · +7.1% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-09-19 · 112026-09-21 · 15

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/msainsburydale/neuralestimators on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing NeuralEstimators adds 2 packages (1 with compiled code, 362 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: magrittr 275 KB, JuliaConnectoR 87 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

JuliaConnectoR magrittr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

dplyr ggplot2 ggplotify ggpubr gridExtra knitr rmarkdown markdown R.rsp testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

eam

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Matthew Sainsbury-Dale

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2024)

Releases (7)

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0.2.2Latest
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2026-09-09 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
PointEstimator, PosteriorEstimator, RatioEstimator, cpu_device, gpu_device, infer, reactant_device
0.2.1
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2026-04-28 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
posteriormode

added 1 export
logratio
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.0
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2025-03-02 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
initialise_estimator, loadweights, mapestimate, mlestimate, spatialgraphlist

added 1 export
posteriormode
0.1.3
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2025-01-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
spatialgraph, spatialgraphlist
0.1.2
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2024-12-19 · diff ↗
0.1.1
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2024-11-03 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2024-09-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-09-11
Total releases: 7 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 475 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("NeuralEstimators")

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

It points to 10.32614/cran.package.neuralestimators, 10.1080/00031305.2023.2249522.

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 NeuralEstimators version 0.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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