R Observatory: Metrics for nimbleHMC version 0.2.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

nimbleHMC

0.2.5

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

1packages depend

3.6Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Daniel TurekFirst published 2023-05-318 releasesCRAN 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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

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

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.73

0.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-21
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 83%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 75%
References docs: 25%

Downloads

3.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,569 · ~10/day · ~301/mo

Releases R versions

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36930 days

97590 days

3.6K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0nimble

Imports (1)

methods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

runMCMCbtadjust

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Daniel Turek

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Daniel Turek

Author, Maintainer

Christopher Paciorek

Author

Perry de Valpine

Author

Package Timeline

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

0.2.5Latest
2026-07-20 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.4
2025-12-16 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.3
2024-12-18 · diff ↗
0.2.2
2024-06-28 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.1
2024-02-09 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2023-09-12 · diff ↗
0.1.1
2023-07-07 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2023-05-31
R
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
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 40 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Turek, D., Paciorek, C., & de Valpine, P. (2026). nimbleHMC: Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and Other Gradient-Based MCMC Sampling Algorithms for 'nimble' (Version 0.2.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.nimbleHMC

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for nimbleHMC version 0.2.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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