R Observatory: Metrics for mfx version 1.2-4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mfx

1.2-4

Marginal Effects, Odds Ratios and Incidence Rate Ratios for GLMs

4packages depend

157.4Kdownloads / year

47.7%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Alan FernihoughFirst published 2013-12-134 releasesCRAN page ↗

Estimates probit, logit, Poisson, negative binomial, and beta regression models, returning their marginal effects, odds ratios, or incidence rate ratios as an output. Greene (2008, pp. 780-7) provides a textbook introduction to this topic.

Install

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

install.packages("mfx", 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-mfx

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-mfx

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-mfx

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 2.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.52

47.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 0% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 44%

Downloads

157.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,186 · ~431/day · ~13.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

8.8K30 days

29.1K90 days

157.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (5)

statssandwich lmtestMASSbetareg

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

broom parameters rineq urbin

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Alan Fernihough

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Alan Fernihough

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Arne Henningsen

Contributor · added in 1.2-2

Package Timeline

4 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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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
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.2-2
2019-02-06 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2019-02-06
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-01-26
check problems were not corrected despite reminders
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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
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published: 2013-12-13
Total releases: 4 / 13 yrs
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 168 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Fernihough, A., & Henningsen, A. (2025). mfx: Marginal Effects, Odds Ratios and Incidence Rate Ratios for GLMs (Version 1.2-4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.mfx

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mfx version 1.2-4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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