R Observatory: Metrics for PriorGen version 2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

PriorGen

2.0Package record

Generates Prior Distributions for Proportions

0packages depend

2.3Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Konstantinos PaterasCRAN 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", 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-priorgen

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-PriorGen

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-PriorGen

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTERd filesr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

checkRd: (-1) findbeta.Rd:20: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    20 | \item{lower.v}{logical, if TRUE the specified percentile.value is the upper limit for the mean (or the median or the mode) at the specified confidence level (percentile). If {FALSE} the specified percentile.value is the lower limit for the mean (or the median or the mode) at the specified confidence level (percentile). The default is FALSE.}
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CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTENow
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 2.0

READMEYes · 112 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 13includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%12 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 90%
Help pages citing references: 69%

Vignettes (1)

PriorGen old/new features ver 1 HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,136 · ~6/day · ~194/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

21930 days

66590 days

2.3K1 year

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Also on70 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing PriorGen adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 589 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: rootSolve 492 KB, nleqslv 97 KB.

Depends (3)

R >= 3.5.0rootSolve nleqslv

Imports (1)

graphics

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

spelling testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Konstantinos Pateras

Author, Maintainer since 2.0 (2023) · added in 2.0

Polychronis Kostoulas

Author

Previously maintained by Polychronis Kostoulas (1.1.2).

Releases (2)

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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
2.0Latest
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2023-04-03 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
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added 10 exports
findbeta, findbeta_abstract, findbeta_panel, findbeta_raw, findbetamupsi, findbetamupsi_abstract, findbetamupsi_panel, findbetamupsi_raw, findbetaqq, print_PriorGen
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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
1.1.2
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2018-05-28
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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
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 142 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("PriorGen")

Format

Pateras, K., & Kostoulas, P. (2023). PriorGen: Generates Prior Distributions for Proportions (Version 2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.PriorGen

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 PriorGen version 2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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