R Observatory: Metrics for abn version 3.1.13

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

abn

3.1.13Package record

Modelling Multivariate Data with Additive Bayesian Networks

0packages depend

9.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Matteo DelucchiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

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. 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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

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

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-23

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ERROR10 OK, 3 ERROR2026-07-08
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-01
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-30
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.1.13

READMEYes · 3,966 wordsVignettesYes · 8 · dynamicNEWS· In the repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Cites a JSS articleCites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 115 (65 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 82%32 run in a plain check · 7 never run
Exported functions with examples: 53%
Documented parameters: 82%
Return-value docs: 98%
Help pages citing references: 15%

Vignettes (8)

Additive Bayesian Networks
Bayesian Network Structure Learning HTML
Data Simulation HTML
Mixed-effect Bayesian Network Model HTML
Model Specification: Build a Cache of Scores HTML
Parallelisation HTML
Parameter Learning HTML
Quick Start Example HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

9.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,451 · ~25/day · ~773/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.6K30 days

3.2K90 days

9.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on600 r2u219 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

furrer-lab/abn ↗Organization: furrer-lab

10Stars

3Forks

46Open issues

5Open PRs

7Releases

442Commits

7Commit identities

bayesian-networkbinomialcategorical-datagaussiangrouped-datasetsmixed-effectsmultinomialmultivariate

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 442 commits · Last activity 2026-10-15 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 86%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-10 · 82026-07-07 · 10

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

15 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/furrer-lab/abn on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-03-18 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (3)

renvdata-raw/Makefile

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

Lint, format, editor (3)

lintrLint workflowRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

29 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing abn adds 67 packages (38 with compiled code, 68 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB. 2 more not on CRAN are not measured.

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.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (7)

Matteo Delucchi

Author, Maintainer since 2.7-5 (2023) · 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

Kalina Cherneva

Contributor · added in 2.6-0

Jonas I. Liechti

Contributor · added in 3.1.1

Marta Pittavino

Contributor · added in 0.85

Previously maintained by Reinhard Furrer (2.6-0 to 2.7-3) and Gilles Kratzer (1.0.2 to 2.5-0).

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

Releases (41)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
3.1.13Latest
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2025-12-19 · current release · diff ↗
3.1.12
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2025-11-25 · diff ↗ ·
removed 6 exports
factorial, factorial_fast, irls_binomial_cpp, irls_binomial_cpp_br, irls_gaussian_cpp, irls_poisson_cpp

added 1 export
export_abnFit
3.1.9
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2025-06-26 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-06-24
3.1.8
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2025-06-24 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-06-09
issues were not corrected in time , Does not use suggested package INLA conditionally
3.1.7
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2025-06-06 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-05-30
3.1.1
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2024-05-30 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-03-28
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
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-03-22
3.0.6
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2024-03-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
forLoopContentBayes
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-12-21
issues were not corrected even on re-submission

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3.0.4
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2023-11-30 · diff ↗
3.0.3
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2023-11-03 · diff ↗
3.0.2
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2023-10-26 · diff ↗
3.0.1
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2023-10-09 · diff ↗
3.0.0
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2023-09-06 · diff ↗ ·
removed 7 exports
fitabn, buildscorecache, mostprobable, searchHillclimber, plotabn, compareEG, abn.Version

added 31 exports
bern_bugs, categorical_bugs, eval.across.grid, expit_cpp, factorial, factorial_fast, find.next.left.x, formula_abn, gauss_bugs, get.quantiles, getMargsINLA, getModeVector, irls_binomial_cpp, irls_binomial_cpp_br, irls_binomial_cpp_fast, irls_binomial_cpp_fast_br, irls_gaussian_cpp, irls_gaussian_cpp_fast, irls_poisson_cpp, irls_poisson_cpp_fast, logit_cpp, makebugs, makebugsGroup, mi_cpp, pois_bugs, rank_cpp, skewness, std.area.under.grid, strsplits, tidy.cache and 1 more
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-04-25
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-04-21
check issues were not corrected in time
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-01-07
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-11-05
check problems were not corrected in time
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-04-23
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-11-06
check problems were not corrected in time
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-10-22
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-07-21
check problems were not corrected in time Mismatched reference output, including timings
R
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 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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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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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
2.15.3
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2012-11-02 · diff ↗ ·
removed 6 exports
check.data, check.dag, calc.node.mlik.inla, calc.node.mlik.inla.mixed, fitabn.inla, buildscorecache.inla
2.15.2
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2012-10-26 · diff ↗
2.15.1
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2012-04-18 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
prunenets

added 5 exports
arcfreq, allnodesbn, allnodesabn, getposteriorfeaturesbn, findmostprobablebn
R
R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
2.14.1
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2011-11-16 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
fitbnMulti
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
2.13.2
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2011-07-26 · diff ↗
2.7-5
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2023-05-22 · diff ↗
2.7-3
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2023-01-25 · diff ↗
2.7-1
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2022-04-25 · diff ↗
2.7-0
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2022-04-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
compareEG, fit.control, build.control, abn.version, abn.Version
2.6-0
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2022-01-07 · diff ↗
2.5-0
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2021-04-23 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
tographviz, search.hillclimber, create_abnDag

added 7 exports
toGraphviz, fitAbn, buildScoreCache, mostProbable, searchHillClimber, plotAbn, createAbnDag
2.3-0
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2020-10-22 · diff ↗
2.2.2
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2020-07-02 · diff ↗
2.2.1
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2020-06-15 · diff ↗
2.2
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2019-11-23 · diff ↗
2.1
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2019-07-04 · diff ↗
2.0
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2019-07-01 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
buildscorecache.mle, fitabn.mle, simulateabn, link.strength, search.heuristic

added 6 exports
searchHillclimber, simulateAbn, linkStrength, searchHeuristic, scoreContribution, create_abnDag
1.3
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2018-11-22 · diff ↗
1.2
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2018-08-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 18 exports
buildscorecache.mle, fitabn.mle, plotabn, simulateabn, logit, expit, odds, or, mb, link.strength, discretization, essentialGraph, compareDag, infoDag, simulateDag, search.heuristic, entropyData, miData
1.0.2
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2016-11-09 · diff ↗
1.0
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2016-01-18 · diff ↗
0.86
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2015-12-28 · diff ↗
0.85
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2014-12-22 · diff ↗
0.83
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2013-03-07 · diff ↗
0.82
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2013-01-04 · diff ↗
0.8
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2012-10-26 · diff ↗ ·
removed 15 exports
hillsearchbn, searchbn, fitbn, makeintofactors, makeintobinarymatrix, trim, arcfreq, uniquenets, hillsearchabn, searchabn, getmarginal, allnodesbn, allnodesabn, getposteriorfeaturesbn, findmostprobablebn

added 9 exports
check.data, check.dag, calc.node.mlik.inla, calc.node.mlik.inla.mixed, fitabn.inla, buildscorecache, buildscorecache.inla, mostprobable, search.hillclimber
0.7
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2012-07-11 · diff ↗
0.5-1
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2011-11-17 · diff ↗
0.3-1
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2011-07-26
R
R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13

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

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("abn")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.18637/jss.v105.i08, 10.21105/joss.06822, 10.3389/fvets.2020.00073.

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for abn version 3.1.13 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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