R Observatory: Metrics for abc version 2.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

abc

2.2.2Package record

Tools for Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC)

6packages dependsuggested by 3

18.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Blum MichaelCRAN page ↗

Implements several ABC algorithms for performing parameter estimation, model selection, and goodness-of-fit. Cross-validation tools are also available for measuring the accuracy of ABC estimates, and to calculate the misclassification probabilities of different models.

Install

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

install.packages("abc", 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-abc

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-abc

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-abc

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: 4.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.2.2

READMEYes · 8 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 17
Examples that run: 41%7 run in a plain check · 10 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 91%
Return-value docs: 86%
Help pages citing references: 18%

Vignettes (1)

ABC PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

18.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,442 · ~52/day · ~1.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1K30 days

3.1K90 days

18.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on246 r2u35 autocran169 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing abc adds 5 packages (3 with compiled code, 6.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: abc.data 4.6 MB, quantreg 903 KB, SparseM 540 KB.

Depends (6)

R >= 2.10abc.datannetquantregMASSlocfit

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

3indirect

Depends 2 · Imports 4

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

EasyABC abctools ecolottery eam poems MaxWiK

Suggests, most downloaded first

coala abcpp multiRL

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Blum Michael

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.1

Csillery Katalin

Author · added in 2.1

Lemaire Louisiane

Author · added in 2.1

Francois Olivier

Author · added in 2.1

Maintainer since 1.5 (2012), previously Katalin Csillery (1.0 to 1.4)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

with contributions from Michael Blum

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.1

Releases (13)

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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
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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2014-07-11 · diff ↗ ·
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gfit, gfitpca

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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2010-10-05
Total releases: 13 / 16 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI · relicensed from Unlimited in 1.2
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 204 KB

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Bayesian Inference

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for abc version 2.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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