R Observatory: Metrics for SALTSampler version 1.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

SALTSampler

1.1.0Package record

Efficient Sampling on the Simplex

0packages depend

2.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Scott Vander WielCRAN page ↗

The SALTSampler package facilitates Monte Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC) sampling of random variables on a simplex. A Self-Adjusting Logit Transform (SALT) proposal is used so that sampling is still efficient even in difficult cases, such as those in high dimensions or with parameters that differ by orders of magnitude. Special care is also taken to maintain accuracy even when some coordinates approach 0 or 1 numerically. Diagnostic and graphic functions are included in the package, enabling easy assessment of the convergence and mixing of the chain within the constrained space.

Install

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

install.packages("SALTSampler", 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-saltsampler

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-SALTSampler

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-SALTSampler

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Scott Vander Wiel <scottv@lanl.gov>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Hannah",
                      family = "Director",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = c("Scott", "Vander"),
                      family = "Wiel",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "scottv@lanl.gov"),
               person(given = "James",
                      family = "Gattiker",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

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

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 10includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%10 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 10%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #21,480 · ~6/day · ~182/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

25030 days

61190 days

2.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on72 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing SALTSampler adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.0.0lattice

Imports (3)

graphicsmethodsstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr coda

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (3)

Hannah Director

Scott Vander Wiel

James Gattiker

Maintainer since 0.1 (2015)

Releases (2)

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2017-08-10 · current release · diff ↗
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Package metadata

First published: 2015-11-03
Total releases: 2 / 11 yrs
License: BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 16 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("SALTSampler")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for SALTSampler version 1.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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