R Observatory: Metrics for indirect version 0.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

indirect

0.2.1Package record

Elicitation of Independent Conditional Means Priors for Generalised Linear Models

0packages depend

2.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Geoff HosackCRAN page ↗

Functions are provided to facilitate prior elicitation for Bayesian generalised linear models using independent conditional means priors. The package supports the elicitation of multivariate normal priors for generalised linear models. The approach can be applied to indirect elicitation for a generalised linear model that is linear in the parameters. The package is designed such that the facilitator executes functions within the R console during the elicitation session to provide graphical and numerical feedback at each design point. Various methodologies for eliciting fractiles (equivalently, percentiles or quantiles) are supported, including versions of the approach of Hosack et al. (2017) doi:10.1016/j.ress.2017.06.011. For example, experts may be asked to provide central credible intervals that correspond to a certain probability. Or experts may be allowed to vary the probability allocated to the central credible interval for each design point. Additionally, a median may or may not be elicited.

Install

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

install.packages("indirect", 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-indirect

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-indirect

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-indirect

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: ‘Geoff Hosack <geoff.hosack@csiro.au>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("Geoffrey", "R."),
                      family = "Hosack",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Geoff",
                      family = "Hosack",
                      role = "cre",
                      email = "geoff.hosack@csiro.au"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.2.1

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 13includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 80%8 run in a plain check · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 83%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 8%

Vignettes (1)

Indirect prior elicitation for Bayesian generalised linear models PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,175 · ~6/day · ~194/mo

Releases R versions

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22030 days

66190 days

2.3K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing indirect adds 4 packages (3 with compiled code, 4.9 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: gplots 4.6 MB, gtools 236 KB, caTools 64 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (2)

MASSgplots

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

toolsutils

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Geoffrey R. Hosack

Maintainer since 0.1.2 (2018)

Releases (3)

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Package metadata

First published: 2018-04-06
Total releases: 3 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Download size: 210 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("indirect")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for indirect version 0.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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