R Observatory: Metrics for deBInfer version 0.4.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

deBInfer

0.4.4Package record

Bayesian Inference for Differential Equations

0packages depend

4.6Kdownloads / year

51.3%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Philipp H Boersch-SupanCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A Bayesian framework for parameter inference in differential equations. This approach offers a rigorous methodology for parameter inference as well as modeling the link between unobservable model states and parameters, and observable quantities. Provides templates for the DE model, the observation model and data likelihood, and the model parameters and their prior distributions. A Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) procedure processes these inputs to estimate the posterior distributions of the parameters and any derived quantities, including the model trajectories. Further functionality is provided to facilitate MCMC diagnostics and the visualisation of the posterior distributions of model parameters and trajectories.

Changes in 0.4.4

##Minor bug fixes and improvements

pairs.debinfer_result now handles chains stuck at the initial value more gracefully.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("deBInfer", 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("pboesu/debinfer")

Development version from pboesu/debinfer. 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-debinfer

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-deBInfer

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-deBInfer

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: ‘Philipp H Boersch-Supan <pboesu@gmail.com>’

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: 5.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-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 0.4.4

READMEYes · 258 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.4Citation fileYes · cites a publication

Help pages: 25
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 56%
Help pages citing references: 8%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

4.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,817 · ~13/day · ~386/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

43730 days

1.1K90 days

4.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on111 r2u11 autocran144 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

pboesu/debinfer ↗Account: pboesu

17Stars

5Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

466Commits

2Commit identities

466 commits · Last activity 2022-11-16

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 86%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 10
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-09-23 · 162026-07-07 · 17

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 8 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/pboesu/debinfer on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2022-11-16

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 4 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing deBInfer adds 9 packages (6 with compiled code, 6.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: deSolve 1.9 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, mvtnorm 1.0 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0deSolve

Imports (11)

truncdist coda RColorBrewerMASSstatsmvtnormgraphicsgrDevicesplyr PBSddesolvemethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

testthat knitr rmarkdown devtools R.rsp beanplot

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Philipp H Boersch-Supan

Author, Maintainer since 0.4.1 (2016)

Leah R Johnson

Author

Sadie J Ryan

Author

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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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
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-11-17
0.4.4Latest
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2022-11-17 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-11-16
issues were not corrected in time
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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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 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.4.2
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2018-04-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
debinfer_cov, is.debinfer_parlist
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.4.1
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2016-09-14

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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-09-14
Total releases: 4 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 1.3 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.3 MB

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Bayesian Inference

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citation("deBInfer")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for deBInfer version 0.4.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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