R Observatory: Metrics for stableGR version 1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

stableGR

1.2

A Stable Gelman-Rubin Diagnostic for Markov Chain Monte Carlo

1packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

87.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Christina KnudsonFirst published 2020-03-053 releasesCRAN page ↗

Practitioners of Bayesian statistics often use Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) samplers to sample from a posterior distribution. This package determines whether the MCMC sample is large enough to yield reliable estimates of the target distribution. In particular, this calculates a Gelman-Rubin convergence diagnostic using stable and consistent estimators of Monte Carlo variance. Additionally, this uses the connection between an MCMC sample's effective sample size and the Gelman-Rubin diagnostic to produce a threshold for terminating MCMC simulation. Finally, this informs the user whether enough samples have been collected and (if necessary) estimates the number of samples needed for a desired level of accuracy. The theory underlying these methods can be found in "Revisiting the Gelman-Rubin Diagnostic" by Vats and Knudson (2018) arXiv:1812:09384.

Install

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

install.packages("stableGR", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-stablegr

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-stableGR

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-stableGR

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.58

87.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

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
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 29%

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,068 · ~9/day · ~268/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5mcmcse

Imports (1)

mvtnorm

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

qbld

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Christina Knudson

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Christina Knudson

Author, Maintainer

Dootika Vats

Author

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-03-05
Total releases: 3 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 6.5 KB / 1 file
Download size: 29 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Knudson, C., & Vats, D. (2022). stableGR: A Stable Gelman-Rubin Diagnostic for Markov Chain Monte Carlo (Version 1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.stableGR

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for stableGR version 1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-13. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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