R Observatory: Metrics for mice version 3.19.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mice

3.19.0Package record

Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations

85packages dependsuggested by 99

1Mdownloads / year

57.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Stef van BuurenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Multiple imputation using Fully Conditional Specification (FCS) implemented by the MICE algorithm as described in Van Buuren and Groothuis-Oudshoorn (2011) doi:10.18637/jss.v045.i03. Each variable has its own imputation model. Built-in imputation models are provided for continuous data (predictive mean matching, normal), binary data (logistic regression), unordered categorical data (polytomous logistic regression) and ordered categorical data (proportional odds). MICE can also impute continuous two-level data (normal model, pan, second-level variables). Passive imputation can be used to maintain consistency between variables. Various diagnostic plots are available to inspect the quality of the imputations.

Changes in 3.19.0

Major changes

Added predict_mi() to generate predictions from models fitted on multiply imputed datasets. The function pools predictions across imputations using Rubin’s rules, and can return point predictions or prediction intervals at a specified confidence level. Typical workflow: 1. Fit a model separately on each completed dataset. 2. Call predict_mi() with the list of models and the corresponding new data (per imputation). 3. Obtain either pooled predictions (pool = TRUE) or per-imputation predictions (pool = FALSE). This functionality makes it easier to evaluate predictive performance on test sets while correctly accounting for imputation uncertainty. Contributed: @fdvanleeuwen, @thomvolker (#720)

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Adds a correction for the Barnard-Rubin degrees of freedom calculation that provides stabler results for small samples and zero within-imputation variance. Contributed: @frederikfabriciusbjerre (#726)

Minor changes

Adds fallback for lmer objects in pool() without requiring broom.mixed. Contributed: @anya-decarlo (#728)
Explicitly load toenail data from the mice package to avoid lme4 conflict. Contributed: @bbolker (#730)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("mice", 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("amices/mice")

Development version from amices/mice. 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-mice

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-mice

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-mice

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: 7.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-21
ERROR11 OK, 2 ERROR2026-07-10
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK13 OK2026-05-02
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-04-16
NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-28
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.19.0

READMEYes · 684 wordsVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 3.19.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 153 (17 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 93%78 run in a plain check · 5 never run · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 58%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 97%
Help pages citing references: 47%

How these are measured

Downloads

1M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #411 · ~2.8K/day · ~86.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

74.3K30 days

208.7K90 days

1M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on35.7K r2u214 autocran21.5K conda_forge1.2K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

amices/mice ↗Organization: amices

521Stars

123Forks

28Open issues

5Open PRs

22Releases

1,898Commits

45Commit identities

imputationfcsmultivariate-datamicechained-equationsmultiple-imputationmissing-datamissing-values

License file reads as GPL-2.0 · 1,898 commits · Last activity 2026-07-07 · +0.6% stars, 30d · Default branch at 3.19.10, ahead of CRAN 3.19.0 (checked 2026-10-18) · Discussions: 136 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 83%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 19
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 12

Stars over time

2025-09-16 · 4862026-10-13 · 521

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

13 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/amices/mice on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductIssue templates

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-07

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-05

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

24 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mice adds 52 packages (30 with compiled code, 39 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, lme4 4.1 MB, glmnet 2.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10.0

Imports (13)

broom dplyr glmnetgraphicsgrDeviceslatticemitmlnnetRcpprpartstatstidyrutils

LinkingTo (2)

cpp11 Rcpp

Suggests (18)

broom.mixed future furrr haven knitr literanger lme4MASSmiceadds pan parallelly purrr ranger randomForest rmarkdown rstansurvivaltestthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

85direct

86indirect

Depends 10 · Imports 75

Suggested by 99

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 37 more dependents and 99 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (22)

Stef van Buuren

Author, Maintainer since 1.21 (2009) · added in 1.21

Karin Groothuis-Oudshoorn

Author · added in 1.21

Vincent Arel-Bundock

Contributor · added in 3.10.0

Mingyang Cai

Contributor · added in 3.14.0

Edoardo Costantini

Contributor · added in 3.14.0

Lisa Doove

Contributor · added in 2.15

Frederik Fabricius-Bjerre

Contributor · added in 3.19.0

Philipp Gaffert

Contributor · added in 2.30

Bernie Gray

Contributor · added in 2.46.0

Shahab Jolani

Contributor · added in 2.16

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Florian Meinfelder

Contributor · added in 2.30

Margarita Moreno-Betancur

Contributor · added in 3.8.0

Hanne Oberman

Contributor · added in 3.15.0

Alexander Robitzsch

Contributor · added in 2.13

Patrick Rockenschaub

Contributor · added in 3.12.0

Rianne Schouten

Contributor · added in 2.30

Gerko Vink

Contributor · added in 2.13

Thom Volker

Contributor · added in 3.14.0

Stephen Wade

Contributor · added in 3.17.0

Ian White

Contributor · added in 3.8.0

Florian van Leeuwen

Contributor · added in 3.19.0

Caspar van Lissa

Contributor · added in 3.14.0

Previously maintained by Roel de Jong (1.14 to 1.16).

Listed in earlier versions (2)

S. Van Buuren

no longer listed · 1.14 to 1.16

C.G.M. Oudshoorn

no longer listed · 1.14 to 1.16

Releases (50)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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Package metadata

First published: 2006-04-04
Total releases: 50 / 20 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10.0
Bundled data: 245 KB / 26 files
Download size: 609 KB

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Clinical Trial Design, Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Missing Data Mixed, Multilevel, and Hierarchical Models in R

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