R Observatory: Metrics for idealstan version 1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

idealstan

1.0Package record

Robust Measurement with 'Stan'

0packages depend

2.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Robert KubinecCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Offers item-response theory (IRT) ideal-point measurement modeling for diverse distributions, missing data, and over-time variation. Full and approximate Bayesian sampling with 'Stan' (https://mc-stan.org/).

Install

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

install.packages("idealstan", 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("saudiwin/idealstan")

Development version from saudiwin/idealstan. 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-idealstan

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-idealstan

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-idealstan

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

Additional issues

donttest

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-20
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-19
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-20
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-19
OK7 OK2026-05-13

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0

READMEYes · 561 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.0Citation fileYes · software entry only

Help pages: 38 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 14%4 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition) · 25 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 88%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 5%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to idealstan HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,380 · ~6/day · ~176/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

38930 days

1K90 days

2.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on27 r2u2 autocran60 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

saudiwin/idealstan ↗Account: saudiwin

59Stars

13Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

11Releases

814Commits

11Commit identities

rstatsbayesianstanirt

814 commits · Last activity 2026-08-21 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 60%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 179
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 6

Stars over time

2025-09-22 · 562026-07-19 · 59

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/saudiwin/idealstan on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

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

Docs source (3)

README.qmdaltdoc

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-21

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

29 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing idealstan adds 105 packages (50 with compiled code, 110 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 4.0.0methods

Imports (18)

dplyr svDialogs tidyr stringr bayesplot posterior gghighlight ggrepel ggplot2 tidybayes lazyeval rlang ggthemes forcats ordbetareg scales shiny tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

cmdstanr quarto knitr rmarkdown loo lubridate rstan shinystan pscl tinytable testthat

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 (1)

Robert Kubinec

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.7 (2018)

Listed in earlier versions (3)

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Trustees of Columbia University

no longer listed · 0.2.7 to 0.7.2

Jonah Gabry

no longer listed · 0.2.7 to 0.7.2

Ben Goodrich

no longer listed · 0.2.7 to 0.7.2

Releases (7)

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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-05-12
1.0Latest
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2026-05-12 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
id_plot, id_plot_irf

added 6 exports
id_me, id_plot_gbeta_prior, id_plot_items, id_plot_persons, id_plot_persons_dyn, id_show_trues
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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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
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-03-07
check problems were not corrected despite reminders
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2019-07-10
0.7.2
record
2019-07-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
id_plot_irf
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-07-01
check problems were not corrected in time
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.7.1
record
2019-02-19 · diff ↗
0.7.0
record
2019-02-19 · diff ↗

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0.5.1
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2018-12-06 · diff ↗
0.5.0
record
2018-10-31 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
id_log_lik

added 5 exports
derive_chain, id_plot_cov, id_plot_legis_dyn, id_plot_legis_var, stan_trace
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.7
record
2018-02-09
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2018-02-09
Total releases: 7 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL in 1.0
Additional repositories: stan-dev.r-universe.dev
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 79 KB / 2 files
Download size: 292 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("idealstan")

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for idealstan version 1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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