R Observatory: Metrics for compareMCMCs version 0.6.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

compareMCMCs

0.6.0

Compare MCMC Efficiency from 'nimble' and/or Other MCMC Engines

0packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

72.7%test coverage

0/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Perry de ValpineFirst published 2022-09-202 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Manages comparison of MCMC performance metrics from multiple MCMC algorithms. These may come from different MCMC configurations using the 'nimble' package or from other packages. Plug-ins for JAGS via 'rjags' and Stan via 'rstan' are provided. It is possible to write plug-ins for other packages. Performance metrics are held in an MCMCresult class along with samples and timing data. It is easy to apply new performance metrics. Reports are generated as html pages with figures comparing sets of runs. It is possible to configure the html pages, including providing new figure components.

Install

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

install.packages("compareMCMCs", 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("nimble-dev/compareMCMCs")

Development version from nimble-dev/compareMCMCs. 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-comparemcmcs

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-compareMCMCs

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-compareMCMCs

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

Health

CRAN checks

13NOTE

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
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NOTE r-release-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 5.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.31

72.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

9

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
3 OK · 11 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: not tracked
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 50%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,072 · ~9/day · ~267/mo

Releases R versions

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18430 days

78990 days

3.2K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ nimble-dev/comparemcmcs

1Stars

2Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

63Commits

4Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 63 commits · Last activity 2024-10-02

Stars over time

2020-05-26 · 12026-07-07 · 1

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/nimble-dev/comparemcmcs on 2026-08-23.

Research and citation (1)

JOSS paper

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

nimble

Imports (8)

R6 ggplot2gridreshape2 xtable coda dplyr rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

testthat knitr rmarkdown rjags rstan

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Perry de Valpine

Author, Maintainer

Authors (4)

Author, Maintainer

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Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.5.0
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-09-20
Total releases: 2 / 4 yrs
License: BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE | GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 557 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("compareMCMCs")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for compareMCMCs version 0.6.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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