R Observatory: Metrics for blme version 1.0-8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

blme

1.0-8Package record

Bayesian Linear Mixed-Effects Models

4packages dependsuggested by 5

121Kdownloads / year

76.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Vincent DorieCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Maximum a posteriori estimation for linear and generalized linear mixed-effects models in a Bayesian setting, implementing the methods of Chung, et al. (2013) doi:10.1007/s11336-013-9328-2. Extends package 'lme4' (Bates, Maechler, Bolker, and Walker (2015) doi:10.18637/jss.v067.i01).

Install

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

install.packages("blme", 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("vdorie/blme")

Development version from vdorie/blme. 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-blme

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-blme

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-blme

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: 2.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

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 1.0-8

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Description cites a JSS article

Help pages: 3
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 21%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 33%

How these are measured

Downloads

121K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,219 · ~331/day · ~10.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

9K30 days

26.4K90 days

121K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on3.7K r2u31 autocran3K conda_forge143 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

vdorie/blme ↗Account: vdorie

46Stars

7Forks

8Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

46Commits

5Commit identities

46 commits · Last activity 2026-10-09 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 4

Stars over time

2025-08-26 · 442026-07-07 · 46

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/vdorie/blme on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-10-09
Commits: at least 1 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 5.51 commit · Oct 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing blme adds 8 packages (6 with compiled code, 11 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: lme4 4.1 MB, nloptr 2.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.0-0lme4

Imports (3)

methodsstatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

expint testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

2indirect

Depends 2 · Imports 2

Suggested by 5

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

merTools phoenics brxx eirm

Suggests, most downloaded first

insight parameters glmmTMB marginaleffects miceadds

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Vincent Dorie

Author, Maintainer since 0.01-0 (2010)

Douglas Bates

Contributor · added in 1.0-5

lme4 non-modular functions

Ben Bolker

Contributor · added in 1.0-5

lme4 non-modular functions

Martin Maechler

Contributor · added in 1.0-5

lme4 non-modular functions

Steven Walker

Contributor · added in 1.0-5

lme4 non-modular functions

Releases (15)

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Package metadata

First published: 2011-06-21
Total releases: 15 / 15 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 46 KB

Appears in task views

Mixed, Multilevel, and Hierarchical Models in R

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("blme")

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

It points to 10.1007/s11336-013-9328-2.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for blme version 1.0-8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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