R Observatory: Metrics for mniw version 1.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mniw

1.0.2Package record

The Matrix-Normal Inverse-Wishart Distribution

5packages dependsuggested by 2

4.2Kdownloads / year

74.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Martin LysyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Density evaluation and random number generation for the Matrix-Normal Inverse-Wishart (MNIW) distribution, as well as the the Matrix-Normal, Matrix-T, Wishart, and Inverse-Wishart distributions. Core calculations are implemented in a portable (header-only) C++ library, with matrix manipulations using the 'Eigen' library for linear algebra. Also provided is a Gibbs sampler for Bayesian inference on a random-effects model with multivariate normal observations.

Changes in 1.0.2

Minor Changes

roxygen documentation now uses Markdown.
Minor reformatting of package vignette.

Bug Fixes

Fixed foo.template method<>() calls to comply with Clang-19, per CRAN request. This made previous usage of _MSC_VER switch unnecessary.
Removed unused variable ldV from C++ code.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("mniw", 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("mlysy/mniw")

Development version from mlysy/mniw. 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-mniw

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-mniw

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-mniw

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: 5.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 10includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%7 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 88%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 88%
Help pages citing references: 10%

Vignettes (1)

Distributions Provided by mniw

How these are measured

Downloads

4.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,600 · ~12/day · ~352/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

40430 days

1.2K90 days

4.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on413 r2u4 autocran123 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

mlysy/mniw ↗Account: mlysy

6Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

70Commits

2Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 70 commits · Last activity 2024-09-19 · 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

2025-07-16 · 52026-07-07 · 6

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/mlysy/mniw on 2026-10-25.

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 (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-09-19 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2024-09-19, before release 1.0.2 (2024-09-22)

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mniw adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 3.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppEigen 1.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppEigen

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

1indirect

Imports 5

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

spBPS jtdm shrinkGPR tip spDBL

Suggests, most downloaded first

LMN spFFBS

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Martin Lysy

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2019)

Bryan Yates

Author

Releases (3)

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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 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-10-09
Total releases: 3 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 0.6 KB / 1 file
Download size: 47 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("mniw")

Format

Lysy, M., & Yates, B. (2024). mniw: The Matrix-Normal Inverse-Wishart Distribution (Version 1.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.mniw

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mniw version 1.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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