R Observatory: Metrics for nimbleHMC version 0.2.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

nimbleHMC

0.2.5Package record

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and Other Gradient-Based MCMC Sampling Algorithms for 'nimble'

0packages dependsuggested by 1

3.9Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Daniel TurekCRAN page ↗

Provides gradient-based MCMC sampling algorithms for use with the MCMC engine provided by the 'nimble' package. This includes two versions of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) No-U-Turn (NUTS) sampling, and (under development) Langevin samplers. The `NUTS_classic` sampler implements the original HMC-NUTS algorithm as described in Hoffman and Gelman (2014) doi:10.48550/arXiv.1111.4246. The `NUTS` sampler is a modern version of HMC-NUTS sampling matching the HMC sampler available in version 2.32.2 of Stan (Stan Development Team, 2023). In addition, convenience functions are provided for generating and modifying MCMC configuration objects which employ HMC sampling. Functionality of the 'nimbleHMC' package is described further in Turek, et al (2024) <doi: 10.21105/joss.06745>.

Install

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

install.packages("nimbleHMC", 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-nimblehmc

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-nimbleHMC

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-nimbleHMC

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: 2.1 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-21
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.5

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 0.2.5Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Description cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 8
Examples that run: 83%5 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 75%
Help pages citing references: 25%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,280 · ~11/day · ~322/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

38830 days

1.2K90 days

3.9K1 year

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Also on120 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing nimbleHMC adds 14 packages (7 with compiled code, 12 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: igraph 4.8 MB, nimble 3.2 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0nimble

Imports (1)

methods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

runMCMCbtadjust

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Daniel Turek

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2023)

Christopher Paciorek

Author

Perry de Valpine

Author

Releases (8)

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0.2.5Latest
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2026-07-20 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.4
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2025-12-16 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.3
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2024-12-18 · diff ↗
0.2.2
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2024-06-28 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.1
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2024-02-09 · diff ↗
0.2.0
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2023-09-12 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
sampler_HMC

added 4 exports
sampler_NUTS, sampler_NUTS_classic, stateNL_NUTS, treebranchNL_NUTS
0.1.1
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2023-07-07 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2023-05-31
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-05-31
Total releases: 8 / 3 yrs
License: BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE | GPL (>= 2) OSI
Copyright: See COPYRIGHTS file.
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 40 KB

Cite

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citation("nimbleHMC")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for nimbleHMC version 0.2.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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