R Observatory: Metrics for buildmer version 2.13

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

buildmer

2.13Package record

Stepwise Elimination and Term Reordering for Mixed-Effects Regression

0packages dependsuggested by 1

16.1Kdownloads / year

76.0%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Cesko C. VoetenCRAN page ↗GitLab ↗Issues ↗

Finds the largest possible regression model that will still converge for various types of regression analyses (including mixed models and generalized additive models) and then optionally performs stepwise elimination similar to the forward and backward effect-selection methods in SAS, based on the change in log-likelihood or its significance, Akaike's Information Criterion, the Bayesian Information Criterion, the explained deviance, or the F-test of the change in R².

Install

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

install.packages("buildmer", 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("cvoeten/buildmer")

Development version from cvoeten/buildmer. 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-buildmer

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-buildmer

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-buildmer

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: ‘Cesko C. Voeten <cvoeten@gmail.com>’

The BugReports field in DESCRIPTION has
  https://gitlab.com/cvoeten/buildmer/-/work_items/issues
which should likely be
  https://gitlab.com/cvoeten/buildmer/-/issues
instead.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-20
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.13

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 30includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 80%20 run in a plain check (3 of them under a condition) · 5 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 92%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 31%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Using 'buildmer' to automatically find & compare maximal (mixed) models

How these are measured

Downloads

16.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,477 · ~44/day · ~1.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.2K30 days

3.1K90 days

16.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on146 r2u10 autocran2.6K conda_forge82 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

gitlab.com/cvoeten/buildmer ↗

0Stars

0Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

554Commits

2Commit identities

554 commits · Last activity 2026-08-02

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against gitlab.com/cvoeten/buildmer on 2026-10-21.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing buildmer adds 8 packages (6 with compiled code, 11 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: lme4 4.3 MB, nloptr 2.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2

Imports (8)

graphicslme4methodsmgcvnlmereformulasstatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (14)

GLMMadaptiveMASSgamm4 glmertree glmmTMB knitr lmerTestnnetordinalparallelpartykit pbkrtest rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

permutes

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Cesko C. Voeten

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2019)

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Cesko Voeten

no longer listed · 1.0

Cesko C.

no longer listed · 1.1 to 2.13

Releases (26)

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2.13Latest
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2026-06-26 · current release · diff ↗ ·
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2019-12-03 · diff ↗ ·
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2019-03-31
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-03-31
Total releases: 26 / 7 yrs
License: FreeBSD
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2
Bundled data: 256 KB / 2 files
Download size: 555 KB

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Mixed, Multilevel, and Hierarchical Models in R

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citation("buildmer")

Format

Voeten, C. C. (2026). buildmer: Stepwise Elimination and Term Reordering for Mixed-Effects Regression (Version 2.13) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.buildmer

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for buildmer version 2.13 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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