R Observatory: Metrics for estimability version 2.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

estimability

2.0.0Package record

Tools for Assessing Estimability of Linear Predictions

3packages dependsuggested by 16

1.7Mdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael DumelleCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides tools for determining estimability of linear functions of regression coefficients, and 'epredict' methods that handle non-estimable cases correctly. Estimability theory is discussed in many linear-models textbooks including Chapter 3 of Monahan, JF (2008), "A Primer on Linear Models", Chapman and Hall (ISBN 978-1-4200-6201-4).

Changes in 2.0.0

Changing maintainer to Michael Dumelle.
Converted documentation/NAMESPACE to use roxygen2.
Added (implicit) support for chol(..., pivot = TRUE) results. This is done by checking for "rank" and "pivot" attributes, and using them if present
Added discussion of Cholesky decompositions to documentation.
Added a complete example to the vignette.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("estimability", 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("rvlenth/estimability")

Development version from rvlenth/estimability. 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-estimability

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-estimability

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-estimability

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.1 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.0.0

READMEYes · 454 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.0.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 4includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 25%

Vignettes (1)

How to add estimability checking to your model's `predict` method HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

1.7M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #291 · ~4.6K/day · ~138.9K/mo

Releases R versions

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142.9K30 days

389.1K90 days

1.7M1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

rvlenth/estimability ↗Account: rvlenth

2Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

209Commits

2Commit identities

209 commits · Last activity 2026-06-25

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 324
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-02-19 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rvlenth/estimability on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-25 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (2)

R >= 4.1.0stats

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

216indirect

Imports 3

Suggested by 16

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Michael Dumelle

Maintainer since 2.0.0 (2026), Author · added in 2.0.0

Russell Lenth

Author, Copyright holder · added in 1.2

Previously maintained by Russell Lenth (1.0-2 to 1.5.1).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Russell V. Lenth

no longer listed · 1.0-2 to 1.1-1

Releases (10)

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-01-31
Total releases: 10 / 11 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 292 KB

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Format

Dumelle, M., & Lenth, R. (2026). estimability: Tools for Assessing Estimability of Linear Predictions (Version 2.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.estimability

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for estimability version 2.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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