R Observatory: Metrics for mcmcsae version 0.8.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mcmcsae

0.8.2Package record

Markov Chain Monte Carlo Small Area Estimation

0packages dependsuggested by 1

6.5Kdownloads / year

66.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Harm Jan BoonstraCRAN page ↗

Fit multi-level models with possibly correlated random effects using Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation. Such models allow smoothing over space and time and are useful in, for example, small area estimation.

Changes in 0.8.2

small changes to C++ code for mapped sparse matrices to be compatible with Eigen 5.0 as used by upcoming version of RcppEigen
added option of Polya-Gamma data augmentation for an approximate Gibbs sampler for gamma sampling distribution family
support for faster rng via R package randompack
deprecated arguments b0 and Q0 for normal prior mean and precision have been removed; now they must be specified through function pr_normal

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("mcmcsae", 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-mcmcsae

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-mcmcsae

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-mcmcsae

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: 12.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-25
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-29
OK13 OK2026-07-21
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22

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ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.8.2

READMENoVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.8.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 92 (4 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 20%9 run in a plain check · 24 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 11 never run
Exported functions with examples: 45%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 96%
Help pages citing references: 20%

Vignettes (3)

Basic area-level model HTML
Basic unit-level models HTML
Linear regression, prediction, and survey weighting HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

6.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,021 · ~18/day · ~545/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

49230 days

1.2K90 days

6.5K1 year

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Also on363 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mcmcsae adds 24 packages (15 with compiled code, 13 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: loo 2.7 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppEigen 1.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (6)

MatrixRcppmethodsGIGrvg loo collapse

LinkingTo (4)

Rcpp RcppEigenMatrixGIGrvg

Suggests (17)

dbarts BayesLogit randompack lintoolssplinesmgcvspdep sf bayesplot coda posteriorparalleltestthat roxygen2 knitr rmarkdown survey

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

hbsae

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Harm Jan Boonstra

Author, Maintainer since 0.5.0 (2020)

Grzegorz Baltissen

Contributor

Releases (15)

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0.8.2Latest
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2026-10-17 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
CG, create_cMVN_sampler, sim_marg_var

added 6 exports
apply_m, apply_tm, gamma_control, set_rng, upd_m, upd_tm
0.8.1
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2026-07-20 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
negbin_control

added 11 exports
bayesR2, binomial_control, cMVN_control, f_multi, f_student_t, gaussian_control, loo, multinomial_control, negbinomial_control, student_t_control, waic
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.8.0
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2025-09-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
s
0.7.9
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2025-06-04 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
spline

added 4 exports
negbin_control, poisson_control, set_constraints, splines
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.7.8
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2024-12-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
compute_GMRF_matrices, nchains, ndraws, nvars

added 11 exports
GMRF_structure, create_cMVN_sampler, mc_offset, n_chains, n_draws, n_vars, pr_beta, pr_truncnormal, pr_unif, set_MH, sim_marg_var
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.7.7
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2024-02-27 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
bart, setup_CG_sampler

added 11 exports
AR1, RW1, RW2, brt, custom, f_gaussian_gamma, gen_control, iid, season, spatial, spline
0.7.6
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2023-12-02 · diff ↗
0.7.5
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2023-10-10 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
maximize_llh, set_opts

added 6 exports
chol_control, f_gamma, maximize_log_lh_p, pr_MLiG, pr_gamma, pr_normal
0.7.4
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2023-06-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
CG_control, sampler_control
0.7.3
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2023-06-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
bart, m_Gibbs, m_HMC, m_HMCZigZag, m_direct, m_softTMVN
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.7.2
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2023-02-04 · diff ↗
0.7.1
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2022-09-02 · diff ↗

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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.7.0
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2021-10-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
CG, SBC_test, f_multinomial, f_poisson, setup_CG_sampler, to_draws_array
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.6.0
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2021-01-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
labels<-, mec, pr_fixed, pr_gig
0.5.0
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2020-09-01
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-09-01
Total releases: 15 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 399 KB

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Boonstra, H. J., & Baltissen, G. (2026). mcmcsae: Markov Chain Monte Carlo Small Area Estimation (Version 0.8.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.mcmcsae

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mcmcsae version 0.8.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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