R Observatory: Metrics for sommer version 4.4.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sommer

4.4.6

Solving Mixed Model Equations in R

9packages depend

78.8Kdownloads / year

0.1%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Giovanny Covarrubias-PazaranFirst published 2016-01-2464 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Structural multivariate-univariate linear mixed model solver for estimation of multiple random effects with unknown variance-covariance structures (e.g., heterogeneous and unstructured) and known covariance among levels of random effects (e.g., pedigree and genomic relationship matrices) (Covarrubias-Pazaran, 2016 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0156744; Maier et al., 2015 doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.12.006; Jensen et al., 1997). REML estimates can be obtained using the Direct-Inversion Newton-Raphson and Direct-Inversion Average Information algorithms for the problems r x r (r being the number of records) or using the Henderson-based average information algorithm for the problem c x c (c being the number of coefficients to estimate). Spatial models can also be fitted using the two-dimensional spline functionality available.

Install

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

install.packages("sommer", 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("covaruber/sommer")

Development version from covaruber/sommer. 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-sommer

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-sommer

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-sommer

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 6.5 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.26

0.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-22
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 3 earlier snapshots

NOTE2026-04-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-09
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 191 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 97%
References docs: 73%

Downloads

78.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,605 · ~216/day · ~6.6K/mo

Releases R versions

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4.7K30 days

15.6K90 days

78.8K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ covaruber/sommer

60Stars

34Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

286Commits

15Contributors

average-informationmixed-modelsrcpparmadillo

286 commits · Last activity 2026-04-05 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Checks run against github.com/covaruber/sommer on 2026-08-16.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (7)

R >= 3.5.0MatrixmethodsstatsMASScrayon enhancer

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (3)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo RcppProgress

Suggests (8)

rmarkdown knitr plyrparallelorthopolynom RSpectralatticetestthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

9direct

2indirect

EstimateBreed IPLGP gpcp lmDiallel pcgen statgenGWAS statgenQTLxT MoBPS lucid

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Giovanny Covarrubias-Pazaran

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Giovanny Covarrubias-Pazaran

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

64 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-01-24
Total releases: 64 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 531 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Agricultural Science Mixed, Multilevel, and Hierarchical Models in R

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