R Observatory: Metrics for makemyprior version 1.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

makemyprior

1.2.2Package record

Intuitive Construction of Joint Priors for Variance Parameters

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ingeborg HemCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Tool for easy prior construction and visualization. It helps to formulates joint prior distributions for variance parameters in latent Gaussian models. The resulting prior is robust and can be created in an intuitive way. A graphical user interface (GUI) can be used to choose the joint prior, where the user can click through the model and select priors. An extensive guide is available in the GUI. The package allows for direct inference with the specified model and prior. Using a hierarchical variance decomposition, we formulate a joint variance prior that takes the whole model structure into account. In this way, existing knowledge can intuitively be incorporated at the level it applies to. Alternatively, one can use independent variance priors for each model components in the latent Gaussian model. Details can be found in the accompanying scientific paper: Hem, Fuglstad, Riebler (2024, Journal of Statistical Software, doi:10.18637/jss.v110.i03).

Changes in 1.2.2

Added citation to journal article.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("makemyprior", 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("ingebogh/makemyprior")

Development version from ingebogh/makemyprior. 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-makemyprior

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-makemyprior

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-makemyprior

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: 4.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-30
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.2

READMEYes · 158 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.2.2Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 33
Examples that run: 94%30 run in a plain check (11 of them under a condition) · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 96%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,869 · ~7/day · ~224/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

25930 days

78690 days

2.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on77 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ingebogh/makemyprior ↗Account: ingebogh

3Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

28Commits

4Commit identities

28 commits · Last activity 2024-08-23 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-08-29 · 32026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/ingebogh/makemyprior on 2026-10-21.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing makemyprior adds 52 packages (25 with compiled code, 46 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, visNetwork 4.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (9)

ggplot2Matrixmethodsshiny shinyjs shinyBS visNetwork rlangMASS

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

rstan INLA knitr rmarkdown

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)

Ingeborg Hem

Maintainer, Author · added in 1.2.0

Geir-Arne Fuglstad

Author

Andrea Riebler

Author

Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2021)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Ingeborg Gullikstad Hem

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.1.0

Releases (6)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.2.2Latest
record
2024-08-23 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.2.1
record
2024-04-09 · diff ↗
1.2.0
record
2024-03-06 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.1.0
record
2022-03-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
eval_joint_prior, get_parameter_order, make_eval_prior_data
1.0.1
record
2022-02-21 · diff ↗
1.0.0
record
2021-05-18
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-05-18
Total releases: 6 / 5 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Additional repositories: inla.r-inla-download.org
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Bundled data: 194 KB / 3 files
Download size: 1.1 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("makemyprior")

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

It points to 10.18637/jss.v110.i03.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for makemyprior version 1.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

Report a problem with this page →