R Observatory: Metrics for ordinal version 2026.7-26

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ordinal

2026.7-26

Regression Models for Ordinal Data

58packages depend

1Mdownloads / year

47.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Rune Haubo Bojesen ChristensenFirst published 2010-03-0733 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Implementation of cumulative link (mixed) models also known as ordered regression models, proportional odds models, proportional hazards models for grouped survival times and ordered logit/probit/... models. Estimation is via maximum likelihood and mixed models are fitted with the Laplace approximation and adaptive Gauss-Hermite quadrature. Multiple random effect terms are allowed and they may be nested, crossed or partially nested/crossed. Restrictions of symmetry and equidistance can be imposed on the thresholds (cut-points/intercepts). Standard model methods are available (summary, anova, drop-methods, step, confint, predict etc.) in addition to profile methods and slice methods for visualizing the likelihood function and checking convergence.

Install

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

install.packages("ordinal", 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("runehaubo/ordinal")

Development version from runehaubo/ordinal. 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-ordinal

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-ordinal

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-ordinal

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 6.9 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.20

47.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
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NOTE2026-07-12
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 82%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 35%

Downloads

1M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #382 · ~2.8K/day · ~84.1K/mo

Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ runehaubo/ordinal

40Stars

12Forks

15Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

78Commits

5Contributors

78 commits · Last activity 2026-07-26 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-03-10 · 352026-07-07 · 40

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/runehaubo/ordinal on 2026-08-16.

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (3)

R >= 2.13.0statsmethods

Imports (5)

ucminfMASSMatrixnumDerivnlme

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

lme4nnetxtable testthattools

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

58direct

174indirect

and 10 more packages.

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Rune Haubo Bojesen Christensen

Author, Maintainer · added in 2013.9-30

Authors (1)

Rune Haubo Bojesen Christensen

Author, Maintainer · added in 2013.9-30

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Rune Haubo B Christensen

no longer listed · 2010.03-04 to 2012.09-11

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Package metadata

First published: 2010-03-07
Total releases: 33 / 16 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.13.0
Bundled data: 9.8 KB / 3 files
Download size: 747 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Christensen, R. H. B. (2026). ordinal: Regression Models for Ordinal Data (Version 2026.7-26) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ordinal

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ordinal version 2026.7-26 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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