R Observatory: Metrics for shinybrms version 1.8.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

shinybrms

1.8.1Package record

Graphical User Interface ('shiny' App) for 'brms'

0packages depend

4.3Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Frank WeberCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A graphical user interface (GUI) for fitting Bayesian regression models using the package 'brms' which in turn relies on 'Stan' (https://mc-stan.org/). The 'shinybrms' GUI is a 'shiny' app.

Changes in 1.8.1

Major changes

Default to sequential instead of parallel computation.

Minor changes

If installed, the **posterior** package is

now used for computing MCMC diagnostics, not **rstan**.

Apart from the bulk-ESS and the tail-ESS, the ESSs for the 50 %, 2.5 %, and

97.5 % posterior quantiles are now checked automatically as well.

UI: Minor enhancements in text elements; updated URLs.
Internally: Tests migrated from

**shinytest** to

**shinytest2**.

Updated the list of allowed function names when specifying a prior via a Stan

Show all changes in 1.8.1Hide the rest of the changes in 1.8.1

function name (for security reasons, it is not possible to enter arbitrary code

in the prior distribution text field). Now, all distributions implemented in

Stan v2.37.0 are supported (although not all of them are useful in the context

of **shinybrms**).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("shinybrms", 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("fweber144/shinybrms")

Development version from fweber144/shinybrms. 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-shinybrms

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-shinybrms

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-shinybrms

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: 56 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-04-08
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-07
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.8.1

READMEYes · 494 wordsVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.8.1Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check (under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,986 · ~12/day · ~362/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

43730 days

1.1K90 days

4.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on133 r2u6 autocran90 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

fweber144/shinybrms ↗Account: fweber144

10Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

16Releases

1,522Commits

1Commit identities

guishinybrmsrstanstanbayesian-statisticsbayesian-inferencebayesian-data-analysis

1,522 commits · Last activity 2025-12-02

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2023-08-29 · 102026-07-07 · 10

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/fweber144/shinybrms on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-12-02 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-12-02

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing shinybrms adds 92 packages (48 with compiled code, 96 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (4)

shiny brms rstan rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

cmdstanr posterior ggplot2 shinystan callr (>= 3.4.0)rstanarmMASSlme4 testthat shinytest2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Frank Weber

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.1 (2020)

Änne Glass

Contributor

Google, LLC

Contributor, Copyright holder

"Open Sans" font

Katja Ickstadt

Contributor · added in 1.7.0

Thomas Park

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.4.1

'Bootswatch' theme "United"

Twitter, Inc.

Contributor, Copyright holder

'Bootstrap' (basis for the 'Bootswatch' theme "United")

Listed in earlier versions (2)

font Google, LLC

no longer listed · 1.4.1 to 1.8.1

) Twitter, Inc.

no longer listed · 1.4.1 to 1.8.1

Releases (13)

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-03-26
Total releases: 13 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 | file LICENSE OSI
Additional repositories: stan-dev.r-universe.dev
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: 181 KB

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for shinybrms version 1.8.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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