R Observatory: Metrics for anominate version 0.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

anominate

0.7Package record

Alpha-NOMINATE Ideal Point Estimator

0packages depend

5.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Christopher HareCRAN page ↗

Provides functions to estimate and interpret the alpha-NOMINATE ideal point model developed in Carroll et al. (2013, doi:10.1111/ajps.12029). alpha-NOMINATE extends traditional spatial voting frameworks by allowing for a mixture of Gaussian and quadratic utility functions, providing flexibility in modeling political actors' preferences. The package uses Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods for parameter estimation, supporting robust inference about individuals' ideological positions and the shape of their utility functions. It also contains functions to simulate data from the model and to calculate the probability of a vote passing given the ideal points of the legislators/voters and the estimated location of the choice alternatives.

Install

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

install.packages("anominate", 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-anominate

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-anominate

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-anominate

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: 2.9 min · r-devel-windows-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

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.7

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 10
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

5.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,871 · ~16/day · ~478/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.2K30 days

2.4K90 days

5.7K1 year

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Also on528 r2u39 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing anominate adds 8 packages (6 with compiled code, 7.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: pscl 2.9 MB, mcmc 1.5 MB, quantreg 903 KB.

Depends (5)

statscoda wnominate pscl MCMCpack

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

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 (8)

Christopher Hare

Author, Maintainer since 0.3 (2014)

Carlos Algara

Author

Royce Carroll

Author

Samuel Fuller

Author · added in 0.7

Jeffrey B. Lewis

Author · added in 0.4

James Lo

Author

Keith T. Poole

Author · added in 0.4

Howard Rosenthal

Author

Listed in earlier versions (5)

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Jeffrey Lewis

no longer listed · 0.3

Keith Poole

no longer listed · 0.3

Algara

no longer listed · 0.7

Lewis

no longer listed · 0.7

Poole

no longer listed · 0.7

Releases (5)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-11-22
0.7Latest
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2024-11-22 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-10-19
requires archived package 'wnominate'
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2017-10-08
0.6
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2017-10-08 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2017-09-11
it depends on 'oc', which was archived
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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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2014-10-09 · diff ↗
0.4
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2014-04-27 · diff ↗
0.3
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2014-04-13
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-04-13
Total releases: 5 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Bundled data: 2.7 MB / 5 files
Download size: 2.7 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("anominate")

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for anominate version 0.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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