R Observatory: Metrics for abn version 3.1.13

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

abn

3.1.13

Modelling Multivariate Data with Additive Bayesian Networks

0packages depend

9.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Matteo DelucchiFirst published 2011-07-2641 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The 'abn' R package facilitates Bayesian network analysis, a probabilistic graphical model that derives from empirical data a directed acyclic graph (DAG). This DAG describes the dependency structure between random variables. The R package 'abn' provides routines to help determine optimal Bayesian network models for a given data set. These models are used to identify statistical dependencies in messy, complex data. Their additive formulation is equivalent to multivariate generalised linear modelling, including mixed models with independent and identically distributed (iid) random effects. The core functionality of the 'abn' package revolves around model selection, also known as structure discovery. It supports both exact and heuristic structure learning algorithms and does not restrict the data distribution of parent-child combinations, providing flexibility in model creation and analysis. The 'abn' package uses Laplace approximations for metric estimation and includes wrappers to the 'INLA' package. It also employs 'JAGS' for data simulation purposes. For more resources and information, visit the 'abn' website.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)

install.packages("abn", 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("furrer-lab/abn")

Development version from furrer-lab/abn. 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-abn

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 28.7 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.62

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

13

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-23
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-07-08
10 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 3 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 7 earlier snapshots

ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-01
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-30
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-22
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 3,966 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 85%
Documented parameters: 82%
Return-value docs: 98%
References docs: 15%

Downloads

9.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,551 · ~25/day · ~765/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

53630 days

1.8K90 days

9.2K1 year

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Also on642 r2u129 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ furrer-lab/abn

10Stars

3Forks

41Open issues

6Open PRs

7Releases

362Commits

6Contributors

bayesian-networkbinomialcategorical-datagaussiangrouped-datasetsmixed-effectsmultinomialmultivariate

License GPL-3.0 · 362 commits · Last activity 2026-06-25 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-01-20 · 62026-07-07 · 10

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/furrer-lab/abn on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (3)

renvdata-raw/Makefile

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

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Coverage (1)

Codecov

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

29 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (13)

doParallel foreach glmmTMB graph jsonlite lme4 mclogitmethodsnnetRcpp Rgraphviz rjags stringi

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (18)

bookdownbootbrglm devtools ggplot2 gridExtra INLA knitrMatrixMatrixModels microbenchmark R.rsp RhpcBLASctl rmarkdown testthat (>= 3.0.0)entropy moments R6

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (7)

Maintainer (1)

Matteo Delucchi

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.7-5

Authors (4)

Matteo Delucchi

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.7-5

Reinhard Furrer

Author · added in 0.85

Gilles Kratzer

Author · added in 1.0.2

Fraser Iain Lewis

Author · added in 2.5-0

Contributors (3)

Kalina Cherneva

Contributor · added in 2.6-0

Jonas I. Liechti

Contributor · added in 3.1.1

Marta Pittavino

Contributor · added in 0.85

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Fraser Lewis

no longer listed · 0.3-1 to 0.83

Fraser Ian Lewis

no longer listed · 0.85 to 2.3-0

Package Timeline

41 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
3.1.13Latest
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3.1.12
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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
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archivedRemoved from CRAN
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issues were not corrected in time , Does not use suggested package INLA conditionally
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
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resubmitted with the same error as when archived, plus new ones Runs indefinitely when INLA is installed, fails on some platforms when it it not
3.0.6
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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-03-22
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-12-21
issues were not corrected even on re-submission

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check problems were not corrected in time Mismatched reference output, including timings
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Package metadata

First published: 2011-07-26
Total releases: 41 / 15 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Additional repositories: inla.r-inla-download.org
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 756 KB / 14 files
Download size: 4.8 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("abn")

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for abn version 3.1.13 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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