R Observatory: Metrics for qbrms version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

qbrms

1.0.1Package record

Quick Bayesian Regression Models Using 'INLA' with 'brms' Syntax

0packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

9.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tony MyersCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides a 'brms'-like interface for fitting Bayesian regression models using 'INLA' (Integrated Nested Laplace Approximations) and 'TMB' (Template Model Builder). The package offers faster model fitting while maintaining familiar 'brms' syntax and output formats. Supports fixed and mixed effects models, multiple probability distributions, conditional effects plots, and posterior predictive checks with summary methods compatible with 'brms'. 'TMB' integration provides fast ordinal regression capabilities. Implements methods adapted from 'emmeans' for marginal means estimation and 'bayestestR' for Bayesian inference assessment. Methods are based on Rue et al. (2009) doi:10.1111/j.1467-9868.2008.00700.x, Kristensen et al. (2016) doi:10.18637/jss.v070.i05, Lenth (2016) doi:10.18637/jss.v069.i01, Bürkner (2017) doi:10.18637/jss.v080.i01, Makowski et al. (2019) doi:10.21105/joss.01541, and Kruschke (2014, ISBN:9780124058880).

Changes in 1.0.1

Improved example sections so that executable toy examples are run by default, with longer examples wrapped in \\donttest{} and guarded by requireNamespace("INLA", quietly = TRUE) where needed.
Added and clarified @return documentation for all exported functions and methods (e.g. conditional_effects*, pp_check*, qbrmb*, summary.qbrmb_fit, summary.qbrms_fit), ensuring all Rd topics have \\value{} sections.
Removed all uses of set.seed() inside functions; any seeding is now restricted to tests or examples.
Refactored and documented binomial mixed-effects helpers (qbrmb, qbrmb_regularised, qbrmb_aggressive) and their associated print/summary methods for greater consistency.
Minor internal clean-up (removal of obsolete helpers and unexported Rd topics) to satisfy CRAN policies.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("qbrms", 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("Tony-Myers/qbrms")

Development version from Tony-Myers/qbrms. 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-qbrms

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-qbrms

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-qbrms

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: 9.4 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.1

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Description cites a JSS article

Help pages: 279 (148 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 6%1 run in a plain check · 3 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 14 never run
Exported functions with examples: 14%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 98%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

The qbrms Bayesian Workflow Coach

How these are measured

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,088 · ~7/day · ~214/mo

Releases R versions

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25630 days

65190 days

2.6K1 year

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Repository

tony-myers/qbrms ↗Account: Tony-Myers

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

16Commits

3Commit identities

16 commits · Last activity 2025-12-04

Responsiveness

not measured

Releases over time

2025-11-21 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/tony-myers/qbrms on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

32 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing qbrms adds 72 packages (37 with compiled code, 59 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, lme4 4.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (15)

methodsggplot2 mvtnorm cowplot lme4 patchwork posterior scales shiny miniUI future future.apply loo TMB jsonlite

LinkingTo (3)

Rcpp RcppEigen TMB

Suggests (16)

testthat INLA knitr rmarkdown DHARMaMASSordinal rstudioapi emmeans bayestestR gridExtra data.table tibble quantreg readxl haven

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Tony Myers

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.1 (2025)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.1Latest
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2025-12-10 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-12-10
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Additional repositories: inla.r-inla-download.org
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 230 KB

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citation("qbrms")

Format

Myers, T. (2025). qbrms: Quick Bayesian Regression Models Using 'INLA' with 'brms' Syntax (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.qbrms

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for qbrms version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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