R Observatory: Metrics for basicMCMCplots version 0.2.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

basicMCMCplots

0.2.7Package record

Trace Plots, Density Plots and Chain Comparisons for MCMC Samples

0packages dependsuggested by 1

4.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Daniel TurekCRAN page ↗

Provides methods for examining posterior MCMC samples from a single chain using trace plots and density plots, and from multiple chains by comparing posterior medians and credible intervals from each chain. These plotting functions have a variety of options, such as figure sizes, legends, parameters to plot, and saving plots to file. Functions interface with the NIMBLE software package, see de Valpine, Turek, Paciorek, Anderson-Bergman, Temple Lang and Bodik (2017) doi:10.1080/10618600.2016.1172487.

Install

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

install.packages("basicMCMCplots", 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-basicmcmcplots

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-basicMCMCplots

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-basicMCMCplots

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: 49 s · 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

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Documentation

In release 0.2.7

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 3
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,316 · ~13/day · ~402/mo

Releases R versions

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40330 days

1.1K90 days

4.8K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing basicMCMCplots adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

nimbleSCR

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Daniel Turek

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2018)

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Package metadata

First published: 2018-09-03
Total releases: 11 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 5.9 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("basicMCMCplots")

Format

Turek, D. (2021). basicMCMCplots: Trace Plots, Density Plots and Chain Comparisons for MCMC Samples (Version 0.2.7) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.basicMCMCplots

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 basicMCMCplots version 0.2.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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