R Observatory: Metrics for bootComb version 1.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bootComb

1.1.2Package record

Combine Parameter Estimates via Parametric Bootstrap

0packages depend

3.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Marc HenrionCRAN page ↗

Propagate uncertainty from several estimates when combining these estimates via a function. This is done by using the parametric bootstrap to simulate values from the distribution of each estimate to build up an empirical distribution of the combined parameter. Finally either the percentile method is used or the highest density interval is chosen to derive a confidence interval for the combined parameter with the desired coverage. Gaussian copulas are used for when parameters are assumed to be dependent / correlated. References: Davison and Hinkley (1997,ISBN:0-521-57471-4) for the parametric bootstrap and percentile method, Gelman et al. (2014,ISBN:978-1-4398-4095-5) for the highest density interval, Stockdale et al. (2020)doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2020.04.008 for an example of combining conditional prevalences.

Changes in 1.1.2

Added the option to specify a dependence structure in adjPrevSensSpecCI (i.e. argument Sigma allowed and passed through to bootComb).
Added the option to specify a seed value for adjPrevSensSpecCI.
Added the option for bootstrapped values to be returned for adjPrevSensSpecCI.
Added a note to the documentation files for getPoisFromCI and getNegBinFromCI - these two functions are unlikely to be of much use within bootComb (where parameters are necessarily assumed to be continuous).
Minor fix to one example.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("bootComb", 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-bootcomb

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-bootComb

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-bootComb

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Marc Henrion <mhenrion@mlw.mw>’

Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style personList() or
as.personList().  Please use c() on person objects instead.
Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry().  Please
use bibentry() instead.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 57 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.2

READMEYes · 279 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.2Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 23
Examples that run: 82%9 run in a plain check · 2 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,820 · ~9/day · ~275/mo

Releases R versions

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39630 days

96890 days

3.3K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

MASS

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

HDInterval

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

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People & History

People (1)

Marc Henrion

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2020)

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2020-09-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
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added 5 exports
getExpFromCI, getGammaFromCI, getNegBinFromCI, simScenPrevSensSpec, simScenProductTwoPrevs
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2020-08-20
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Package metadata

First published: 2020-08-20
Total releases: 6 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 22 KB

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Format

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for bootComb version 1.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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