R Observatory: Metrics for plotMCMC version 2.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

plotMCMC

2.0.2Package record

MCMC Diagnostic Plots

0packages depend

3.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Arni MagnussonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Markov chain Monte Carlo diagnostic plots. The purpose of the package is to combine existing tools from the 'coda' and 'lattice' packages, and make it easy to adjust graphical details.

Changes in 2.0.2

Maintenance release.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("plotMCMC", 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("arni-magnusson/plotMCMC")

Development version from arni-magnusson/plotMCMC. 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-plotmcmc

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-plotMCMC

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-plotMCMC

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: 1.6 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-15
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.0.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.0.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 11includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%10 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 45%

Vignettes (1)

Gallery PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

3.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,499 · ~11/day · ~325/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

48430 days

1.1K90 days

3.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on155 r2u3 autocran104 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

arni-magnusson/plotmcmc ↗Account: arni-magnusson

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

26Commits

3Commit identities

26 commits · Last activity 2026-10-07

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/arni-magnusson/plotmcmc on 2026-10-11.

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing plotMCMC adds 5 packages (3 with compiled code, 5.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: gplots 4.6 MB, gtools 236 KB, coda 73 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (3)

coda gplotslattice

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

gdata

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Arni Magnusson

Author, Maintainer since 2.0-0 (2014)

Ian Stewart

Author

Releases (3)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

2.0.2Latest
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2026-10-07 · current release · diff ↗ ·
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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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 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
2.0-0
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2014-03-12

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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Across CRAN, the median accepted release of the past year spent 19 hours in the queue, 90% under 11 days.How queue time is measured

Package metadata

First published: 2014-03-12
Total releases: 3 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 203 KB / 4 files
Download size: 931 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("plotMCMC")

Format

Magnusson, A., & Stewart, I. (2026). plotMCMC: MCMC Diagnostic Plots (Version 2.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.plotMCMC

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

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for plotMCMC version 2.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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