R Observatory: Metrics for PlackettLuce version 0.4.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

PlackettLuce

0.4.5Package record

Plackett-Luce Models for Rankings

2packages dependsuggested by 3

41.4Kdownloads / year

81.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Heather TurnerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Functions to prepare rankings data and fit the Plackett-Luce model jointly attributed to Plackett (1975) doi:10.2307/2346567 and Luce (1959, ISBN:0486441369). The standard Plackett-Luce model is generalized to accommodate ties of any order in the ranking. Partial rankings, in which only a subset of items are ranked in each ranking, are also accommodated in the implementation. Disconnected/weakly connected networks implied by the rankings may be handled by adding pseudo-rankings with a hypothetical item. Optionally, a multivariate normal prior may be set on the log-worth parameters and ranker reliabilities may be incorporated as proposed by Raman and Joachims (2014) doi:10.1145/2623330.2623654. Maximum a posteriori estimation is used when priors are set. Methods are provided to estimate standard errors or quasi-standard errors for inference as well as to fit Plackett-Luce trees. See the package website or vignette for further details.

Changes in 0.4.5

Replace defunct CVXR::solve with CVXR::psolve
Use bookdown vs BiocStyle for vignettes
Enable Overview vignette to build without kableExtra package
Add salad data to remove prefmod dependency

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("PlackettLuce", 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("hturner/PlackettLuce")

Development version from hturner/PlackettLuce. 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-plackettluce

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-PlackettLuce

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-PlackettLuce

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: 7.2 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-02
ERROR6 OK, 8 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.5

READMEYes · 1,154 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.5Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 26 (4 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%22 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 87%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 80%
Help pages citing references: 35%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

41.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,706 · ~113/day · ~3.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1K30 days

2.6K90 days

41.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on124 r2u5 autocran1.3K conda_forge93 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

hturner/plackettluce ↗Account: hturner

27Stars

5Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

11Releases

500Commits

4Commit identities

rankingplackett-luce-modelsrankings-datapreferencesstatistical-modelsr

500 commits · Last activity 2026-03-24 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 60
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-16 · 212026-07-07 · 27

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/hturner/plackettluce on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-03-24 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-03-24, before release 0.4.5 (2026-03-25)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

25 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing PlackettLuce adds 35 packages (26 with compiled code, 31 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: clarabel 5.7 MB, igraph 4.8 MB, partykit 2.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (13)

CVXR igraphMatrixmatrixStatsmethodspartykit psychotools psychotree R6 RSpectra qvcalc sandwichstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (16)

BayesMallows BradleyTerry2 PLMIX ROlogit StatRank bookdown covr hyper2 kableExtra knitr lbfgs gnm pmr rmarkdownsurvivaltestthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

gosset mtrank

Suggests, most downloaded first

hyper2 ClimMobTools PLMIX

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Heather Turner

Author, Maintainer since 0.2-1 (2017)

David Firth

Author

Ioannis Kosmidis

Author

Jacob van Etten

Contributor

Releases (15)

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-12-07
Total releases: 15 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 12 KB / 4 files
Download size: 1.7 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("PlackettLuce")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for PlackettLuce version 0.4.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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