R Observatory: Metrics for mifa version 0.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mifa

0.2.1Package record

Multiple Imputation for Exploratory Factor Analysis

0packages depend

2.8Kdownloads / year

68.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tobias BuschCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Impute the covariance matrix of incomplete data so that factor analysis can be performed. Imputations are made using multiple imputation by Multivariate Imputation with Chained Equations (MICE) and combined with Rubin's rules. Parametric Fieller confidence intervals and nonparametric bootstrap confidence intervals can be obtained for the variance explained by different numbers of principal components. The method is described in Nassiri et al. (2018) doi:10.3758/s13428-017-1013-4.

Changes in 0.2.1

Update cross-references to mice package in documentation to comply with new CRAN checks
Update example code and links in README
Remove unnecessary "LazyData" key from DESCRIPTION to remove CRAN check Note

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("mifa", 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("teebusch/mifa")

Development version from teebusch/mifa. 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-mifa

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-mifa

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-mifa

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: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-02

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ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.1

READMEYes · 541 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.1Citation fileNo

Help pages: 9 (6 internal)
Examples that run: 0%3 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 44%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,265 · ~8/day · ~235/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

26530 days

74390 days

2.8K1 year

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Also on65 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

teebusch/mifa ↗Account: Teebusch

2Stars

0Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

65Commits

3Commit identities

imputationrstatsfactor-analysis

65 commits · Last activity 2025-05-10 · 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: 0

Stars over time

2023-01-10 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/teebusch/mifa on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-05-12 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mifa adds 54 packages (32 with compiled code, 40 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, lme4 4.3 MB, glmnet 2.7 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

statsmice dplyr checkmate

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

psych testthat knitr rmarkdown ggplot2 tidyr covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Tobias Busch

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2021)

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Package metadata

First published: 2021-01-22
Total releases: 2 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 137 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("mifa")

Format

Busch, T., Lovik, A., Molenberghs, G., Nassiri, V., & Verbeke, G. (2025). mifa: Multiple Imputation for Exploratory Factor Analysis (Version 0.2.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.mifa

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 mifa version 0.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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