R Observatory: Metrics for PLMIX version 2.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

PLMIX

2.2.1Package record

Bayesian Analysis of Finite Mixtures of Plackett-Luce Models for Partial Rankings/Orderings

0packages dependsuggested by 1

5.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Cristina MollicaCRAN page ↗

Fit finite mixtures of Plackett-Luce models for partial top rankings/orderings within the Bayesian framework. It provides MAP point estimates via EM algorithm and posterior MCMC simulations via Gibbs Sampling. It also fits MLE as a special case of the noninformative Bayesian analysis with vague priors. In addition to inferential techniques, the package assists other fundamental phases of a model-based analysis for partial rankings/orderings, by including functions for data manipulation, simulation, descriptive summary, model selection and goodness-of-fit evaluation. Main references on the methods are Mollica and Tardella (2017) doi:10.1007/s11336-016-9530-0 and Mollica and Tardella (2014) doi:10.1002/sim.6224.

Changes in 2.2.1

MAJOR CHANGES

Replaced the archived radarchart dependency with fmsb, which provides comparable radar chart functionality.
loglikPLMIX(...):
[::] code adjustment for numerical precision to handle very large values of K.
gibbsPLMIX(...):
[::] code adjustment of the internal C++ function CompProbZpartial(...) for numerical precision to handle very large values of K.

MINOR CHANGES

is.top_ordering(...) and as.top_ordering:
[::] added check for the presence of some rows in the dataset with all zero entries which are then automatically removed.

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("PLMIX", 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-plmix

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-PLMIX

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-PLMIX

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: 6.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-04-02
ERROR6 OK, 8 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 2.2.1

READMEYes · 8 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 0% structured · mentions 2.2.1Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 45includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%35 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 93%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 79%
Help pages citing references: 64%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #25,379 · ~16/day · ~486/mo

Releases R versions

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26430 days

26490 days

5.8K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing PLMIX adds 57 packages (25 with compiled code, 46 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, patchwork 3.2 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (18)

Rcpp abind foreach ggplot2 ggmcmc coda reshape2 (>= 1.4.3)rcdd gridExtra MCMCpack gtools label.switchingstatsmethodsutilsgraphicsgrDevicesfmsb

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (7)

doParallel e1071 prefmod (>= 0.8-34)rankdist StatRank pmr (>= 1.2.5)PlackettLuce

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

PlackettLuce

How these are counted

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (2)

Cristina Mollica

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2016)

Luca Tardella

Author

Releases (7)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-10-12
2.2.1Latest
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2026-10-11 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-05-27
requires archived package 'radarchart'
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.2.0
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2025-06-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
print.summary.gsPLMIX, print.summary.mpPLMIX
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
2.1.1
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2019-09-04 · diff ↗
2.1.0
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2019-08-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 9 exports
as.top_ordering, gsPLMIX_to_mcmc, is.top_ordering, plot.gsPLMIX, plot.mpPLMIX, print.gsPLMIX, print.mpPLMIX, summary.gsPLMIX, summary.mpPLMIX
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
2.0.1
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2018-05-02 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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2.0
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2018-02-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
label_switchPLMIX
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.0
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2016-12-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-12-21
Total releases: 7 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Bundled data: 132 KB / 8 files
Download size: 205 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("PLMIX")

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

It points to 10.1007/s11336-016-9530-0, 10.1002/sim.6224.

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for PLMIX version 2.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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