R Observatory: Metrics for bang version 1.0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bang

1.0.4Package record

Bayesian Analysis, No Gibbs

0packages dependsuggested by 1

27.4Kdownloads / year

93.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul J. NorthropCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides functions for the Bayesian analysis of some simple commonly-used models, without using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods such as Gibbs sampling. The 'rust' package https://cran.r-project.org/package=rust is used to simulate a random sample from the required posterior distribution, using the generalized ratio-of-uniforms method. See Wakefield, Gelfand and Smith (1991) DOI:10.1007/BF01889987 for details. At the moment three conjugate hierarchical models are available: beta-binomial, gamma-Poisson and a 1-way analysis of variance (ANOVA).

Changes in 1.0.4

Bug fixes and minor improvements

Fixed 2 \link{} targets with missing (rust) package anchors in Rd files for hanova1() and hef().

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("bang", 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("paulnorthrop/bang")

Development version from paulnorthrop/bang. 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-bang

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-bang

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-bang

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: 4.4 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
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.4

READMEYes · 200 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 18includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%8 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 50%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

27.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,832 · ~75/day · ~2.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.6K30 days

5.1K90 days

27.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on124 r2u27 autocran83 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

paulnorthrop/bang ↗Account: paulnorthrop

4Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

276Commits

1Commit identities

bayesiangibbshierarchicalanovabetabinomialgammapoisson

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 276 commits · Last activity 2026-02-06 · Default branch at 1.0.4.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.0.4 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-05-14 · 42026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/paulnorthrop/bang on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowAppVeyor

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

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-02-06

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

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bang adds 46 packages (26 with compiled code, 42 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, bayesplot 5.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (4)

bayesplotgraphicsruststats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

ggplot2 knitrMASSrmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

rust

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Paul J. Northrop

Benjamin D. Hall

Author, Copyright holder

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Benjamin D.

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.0.4

Paul J.

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.0.4

Releases (5)

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-20
Total releases: 5 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Bundled data: 7.2 KB / 6 files
Download size: 246 KB

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Bayesian Inference

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("bang")

Format

Northrop, P. J., & Hall, B. D. (2024). bang: Bayesian Analysis, No Gibbs (Version 1.0.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bang

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for bang version 1.0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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