R Observatory: Metrics for factor.switching version 1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

factor.switching

1.4Package record

Post-Processing MCMC Outputs of Bayesian Factor Analytic Models

1packages depend

3.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Panagiotis PapastamoulisCRAN page ↗

A well known identifiability issue in factor analytic models is the invariance with respect to orthogonal transformations. This problem burdens the inference under a Bayesian setup, where Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are used to generate samples from the posterior distribution. The package applies a series of rotation, sign and permutation transformations (Papastamoulis and Ntzoufras (2022) DOI:10.1007/s11222-022-10084-4) into raw MCMC samples of factor loadings, which are provided by the user. The post-processed output is identifiable and can be used for MCMC inference on any parametric function of factor loadings. Comparison of multiple MCMC chains is also possible.

Install

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

install.packages("factor.switching", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-factor.switching

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-factor.switching

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-factor.switching

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-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.4

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 11includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%9 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 89%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 64%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,014 · ~9/day · ~279/mo

Releases R versions

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34230 days

86790 days

3.4K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing factor.switching adds 8 packages (5 with compiled code, 4.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: mcmc 1.5 MB, quantreg 903 KB, MCMCpack 718 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

coda HDInterval lpSolve MCMCpack

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

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People & History

People (1)

Panagiotis Papastamoulis

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2020)

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-03-11
Total releases: 5 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Bundled data: 3.8 KB / 1 file
Download size: 22 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("factor.switching")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1007/s11222-022-10084-4.

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for factor.switching version 1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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