R Observatory: Metrics for bridgesampling version 1.2-1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bridgesampling

1.2-1

Bridge Sampling for Marginal Likelihoods and Bayes Factors

19packages depend

547.5Kdownloads / year

50.1%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Quentin F. GronauFirst published 2017-03-2411 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides functions for estimating marginal likelihoods, Bayes factors, posterior model probabilities, and normalizing constants in general, via different versions of bridge sampling (Meng & Wong, 1996, https://www3.stat.sinica.edu.tw/statistica/j6n4/j6n43/j6n43.htm). Gronau, Singmann, & Wagenmakers (2020) doi:10.18637/jss.v092.i10.

Install

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

install.packages("bridgesampling", 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("quentingronau/bridgesampling")

Development version from quentingronau/bridgesampling. 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-bridgesampling

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-bridgesampling

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-bridgesampling

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 5.3 min · r-release-linux-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.17

50.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

9

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 50%
Documented parameters: 85%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 38%

Downloads

547.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #460 · ~1.5K/day · ~45.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

52.8K30 days

174.7K90 days

547.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on8.9K r2u127 autocran5.7K conda_forge328 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ quentingronau/bridgesampling

35Stars

18Forks

13Open issues

2Open PRs

0Releases

378Commits

11Contributors

378 commits · Last activity 2025-11-18 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-10-16 · 322026-07-07 · 35

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/quentingronau/bridgesampling on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI

CRAN release process (1)

revdep/

Lint, format, editor (2)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (9)

mvtnormMatrixBrobdingnag stringr codaparallelscalesutilsmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (15)

testthat Rcpp RcppEigen R2jags rjags runjags knitr rmarkdown R.rsp BayesFactor rstan rstanarm nimble MCMCpack cmdstanr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

19direct

45indirect

BAMBI BayesTools BayesianTools RoBMA RoBTT StanMoMo bayesDiagnostics bayesforecast brms hdbayes hwep measr metaBMA prome smoothbp HTDV bayestestR hbsaems lorad

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (12)

Maintainer (1)

Quentin F. Gronau

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Quentin F. Gronau

Author, Maintainer

Henrik Singmann

Author

Contributors (9)

Jonathan J. Forster

Contributor

Jonah Gabry

Contributor · added in 0.2-2

Ben Goodrich

Contributor · added in 0.2-2

Jiqiang Guo

Contributor · added in 0.2-2

Giorgio Micaletto

Contributor · added in 1.2-1

Kees Mulder

Contributor · added in 0.5-2

The JASP Team

Contributor · added in 0.2-2

Aki Vehtari

Contributor · added in 1.2-1

Show 1 more contributors

Perry de Valpine

Contributor · added in 0.6-0

Other (1)

Eric-Jan Wagenmakers

Thesis advisor · added in 0.2-2

Package Timeline

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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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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 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-03-24
Total releases: 11 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Additional repositories: stan-dev.r-universe.dev
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Bundled data: 4.9 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.1 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Gronau, Q. F., Forster, J. J., Gabry, J., Goodrich, B., Guo, J., Micaletto, G., Mulder, K., Singmann, H., The JASP Team, , Vehtari, A., Wagenmakers, E., & de Valpine, P. (2025). bridgesampling: Bridge Sampling for Marginal Likelihoods and Bayes Factors (Version 1.2-1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bridgesampling

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