R Observatory: Metrics for aldvmm version 0.9.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

aldvmm

0.9.0Package record

Adjusted Limited Dependent Variable Mixture Models

0packages depend

4.4Kdownloads / year

91.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mark PletscherCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

The goal of the package 'aldvmm' is to fit adjusted limited dependent variable mixture models of health state utilities. Adjusted limited dependent variable mixture models are finite mixtures of normal distributions with an accumulation of density mass at the limits, and a gap between 100% quality of life and the next smaller utility value. The package 'aldvmm' uses the likelihood and expected value functions proposed by Hernandez Alava and Wailoo (2015) doi:10.1177/1536867X1501500307 using normal component distributions and a multinomial logit model of probabilities of component membership.

Changes in 0.9.0

The functions aldvmm.ll() and aldvmm.sc() were vectorized to increase readability and computation speed.
The functions aldvmm.ll() and aldvmm.sc() include a numerically stabilized multinomial logit density to improve convergence.
The pdf vignette was removed.
The html vignette was updated to discuss the numerical properties and results of the stabilized likelihood and gradient functions.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("aldvmm", 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("pletschm/aldvmm")

Development version from pletschm/aldvmm. 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-aldvmm

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-aldvmm

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-aldvmm

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: 3.7 min · r-oldrel-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
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.9.0

READMEYes · 170 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.9.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 30includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 4%
Documented parameters: 86%
Return-value docs: 96%
Help pages citing references: 10%

Vignettes (1)

Adjusted Limited Dependent Variable Mixture Models of Health State Utilities in R

How these are measured

Downloads

4.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,333 · ~12/day · ~369/mo

Releases R versions

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48130 days

1.3K90 days

4.4K1 year

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Also on140 r2u18 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

pletschm/aldvmm ↗Account: pletschm

5Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

10Releases

272Commits

2Commit identities

utilitiesmappingclinical-trialshtamixture-modelquality-of-lifecost-effectivenesshui

272 commits · Last activity 2025-11-21 · 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

2023-10-12 · 42026-08-14 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/pletschm/aldvmm on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing aldvmm adds 10 packages (5 with compiled code, 7.3 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: optimx 2.2 MB, nloptr 2.1 MB, sandwich 1.4 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (7)

numDerivstatscheckmate optimx Formula sandwich lmtest

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

knitr kableExtra markdown tinytex testthat covr rmarkdown bookdown xtable ggplot2 scales reshape2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

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Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Mark Pletscher

Achim Zeileis

Contributor · added in 0.8.7

Releases (7)

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R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.9.0Latest
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2025-11-21 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.8.8
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2023-10-28 · diff ↗
0.8.7
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2023-07-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
aldvmm.sc, formula.aldvmm, residuals.aldvmm, terms.aldvmm, update.aldvmm
0.8.6
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2023-06-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
aldvmm.tm, coef.aldvmm, estfun.aldvmm, model.matrix.aldvmm, nobs.aldvmm, print.aldvmm, vcov.aldvmm
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.8.5
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2022-10-12 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.8.4
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2021-07-19 · diff ↗
0.8.3
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2021-06-16
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-06-16
Total releases: 7 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 3.3 KB / 1 file
Download size: 718 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("aldvmm")

Format

Pletscher, M., & Zeileis, A. (2025). aldvmm: Adjusted Limited Dependent Variable Mixture Models (Version 0.9.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.aldvmm

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for aldvmm version 0.9.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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