R Observatory: Metrics for mbest version 0.6.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mbest

0.6.1

Moment-Based Estimation for Hierarchical Models

0packages dependsuggested by 1

27Kdownloads / year

76.4%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ben BolkerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Fast moment-based hierarchical model fitting. Implements methods from the papers "Fast Moment-Based Estimation for Hierarchical Models," by Perry (2017) and "Fitting a Deeply Nested Hierarchical Model to a Large Book Review Dataset Using a Moment-Based Estimator," by Zhang, Schmaus, and Perry (2018).

Install

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

install.packages("mbest", 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("patperry/r-mbest")

Development version from patperry/r-mbest. 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-mbest

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-mbest

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-mbest

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  mbest/tests/testthat/test-mhglm.multilevel.R (.Names: 6)
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.6.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 8includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 57%
Return-value docs: 50%
Help pages citing references: 38%

How these are measured

Downloads

27K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,558 · ~74/day · ~2.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.9K30 days

6K90 days

27K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on421 r2u8 autocran2.3K conda_forge99 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

patperry/r-mbest ↗Account: patperry

27Stars

7Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

184Commits

11Commit identities

License file reads as Apache-2.0 · 184 commits · Last activity 2025-04-23 · +3.8% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 168
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 262026-09-21 · 27

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/patperry/r-mbest on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CI (config file)AppVeyor

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mbest adds 12 packages (4 with compiled code, 18 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, rbibutils 1.1 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.3.0nlme

Imports (5)

abind bigmemory foreach reformulas logging

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat lme4

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

skpr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Ben Bolker

Maintainer since 0.6.1 (2025) · added in 0.6.1

Patrick O. Perry

Author

Ningshan Zhang

Author, Contributor · added in 0.6

Kyle Schmaus

Contributor · added in 0.6

Timothy Sweetser

Contributor · added in 0.5

Previously maintained by Patrick O. Perry (0.1 to 0.6).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Patrick O.

no longer listed · 0.5 to 0.6.1

Releases (6)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-04-24
0.6.1Latest
record
2025-04-24 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-03-10
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
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
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.6
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2018-05-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
mhglm_sim, VarCorr.mhglm_ml, fixef.mhglm_ml, mhglm_ml, ranef.mhglm_ml, sigma.mhglm_ml
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.5
record
2016-03-08 · diff ↗ ·
removed 7 exports
fixef, model.matrix.mhglm, predict.mhglm, ranef, sigma, terms.mhglm, VarCorr

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0.4
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2015-10-19 · diff ↗
0.3
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2015-04-20 · diff ↗
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.1
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2014-06-05
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-06-05
Total releases: 6 / 12 yrs
License: Apache License (== 2.0) | file LICENSE
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 150 KB

Appears in task views

Mixed, Multilevel, and Hierarchical Models in R

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("mbest")

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

It points to 10.1111/rssb.12165.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mbest version 0.6.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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