PriorGen

2.0

Generates Prior Distributions for Proportions

0packages depend

2.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

0/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Konstantinos PaterasFirst published 2018-05-282 releasesCRAN page ↗

Translates beliefs into prior information in the form of Beta and Gamma distributions. It can be used for the generation of priors on the prevalence of disease and the sensitivity/specificity of diagnostic tests and any other binomial experiment.

Install

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

install.packages("PriorGen")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# one-time r2u setup for Ubuntu (noble)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash

# then install

sudo apt install r-cran-priorgen

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). Run the setup once per machine.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

sudo dnf copr enable iucar/cran

sudo dnf install R-CRAN-PriorGen

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

sudo zypper install R-PriorGen

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS.

Health

CRAN checks

13NOTE

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
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NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64
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NOTE r-release-linux-x86_64
NOTE r-release-macos-arm64
NOTE r-release-macos-x86_64
NOTE r-release-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.01

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Yes

Vignettes

Yes

README

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
0 OK · 14 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,986 · ~6/day · ~192/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (3)

R >= 3.5.0rootSolve nleqslv

Imports (1)

graphics

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

spelling testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Reverse dependencies

0direct

–indirect (not tracked)

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 1,248 (58%)Rd 678 (31%)Vignettes 237 (11%)

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

12 10 exported

Complexity

9.8 avg / 31 max

Call network

12 nodes / 0 edges

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Lowest coverage

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People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Konstantinos Pateras

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Konstantinos Pateras

Author, Maintainer

Polychronis Kostoulas

Author

Release timeline

2 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-05-28
Total releases: 2 / 8 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet