R Observatory: Metrics for ordinal version 2026.7-26

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ordinal

2026.7-26Package record

Regression Models for Ordinal Data

17packages dependsuggested by 51

1Mdownloads / year

47.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Rune Haubo Bojesen ChristensenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

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. 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-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). 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: 6.9 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-12
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2026.7-26

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structuredCitation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 31 (5 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%26 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 78%
Documented parameters: 82%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 35%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

1M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #361 · ~2.8K/day · ~85.3K/mo

Releases R versions

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86.8K30 days

260.2K90 days

1M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on37.3K r2u160 autocran20.4K conda_forge1.3K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

runehaubo/ordinal ↗Account: runehaubo

41Stars

12Forks

18Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

78Commits

5Commit identities

78 commits · Last activity 2026-07-26 · +2.5% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 92%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 210
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-03-10 · 352026-10-20 · 41

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/runehaubo/ordinal on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ordinal adds 2 packages (1 with compiled code, 91 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: numDeriv 74 KB, ucminf 17 KB.

Depends (3)

R >= 2.13.0statsmethods

Imports (5)

ucminfMASSMatrixnumDerivnlme

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

lme4nnetxtable testthattools

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

17direct

178indirect

Depends 2 · Imports 15

Suggested by 51

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jomo projpred crch serp MXM RcmdrPlugin.MPAStats ecoCopula AutoScore pda GRAB EQUALSTATS gtregression drord metaSDTreg remiod gomp optimus

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and 20 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Rune Haubo Bojesen Christensen

Author, Maintainer · added in 2013.9-30

Maintainer since 2010.03-04 (2010)

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

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ordinal version 2026.7-26 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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