R Observatory: Metrics for varTestnlme version 1.3.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

varTestnlme

1.3.5Package record

Variance Components Testing for Linear and Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models

1packages depend

4.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Charlotte BaeyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

An implementation of the Likelihood ratio Test (LRT) for testing that, in a (non)linear mixed effects model, the variances of a subset of the random effects are equal to zero. There is no restriction on the subset of variances that can be tested: for example, it is possible to test that all the variances are equal to zero. Note that the implemented test is asymptotic. This package should be used on model fits from packages 'nlme', 'lmer', and 'saemix'. Charlotte Baey and Estelle Kuhn (2019) doi:10.18637/jss.v107.i06.

Changes in 1.3.5

Add reference (doi number) for the associated JSS paper.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("varTestnlme", 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("baeyc/varTestnlme")

Development version from baeyc/varTestnlme. 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-vartestnlme

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-varTestnlme

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-varTestnlme

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-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
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-07

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OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.5

READMEYes · 228 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.3.5Citation fileYes · cites a publication

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 25
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 8%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 31%
Help pages citing references: 4%

Vignettes (1)

Get started HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

4.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,605 · ~13/day · ~399/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

55030 days

1.3K90 days

4.8K1 year

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Also on116 r2u1 autocran62 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

baeyc/vartestnlme ↗Account: baeyc

2Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

67Commits

2Commit identities

67 commits · Last activity 2023-09-21

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 284
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2023-12-02 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/baeyc/vartestnlme on 2026-10-21.

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2023-09-21

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing varTestnlme adds 77 packages (39 with compiled code, 62 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, lme4 4.3 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (16)

mvtnorm lmeresampler alabamaMatrixmerDeriv anocva corpcor quadprog lme4nlmesaemix msm foreachmethodsdoParallelparallel

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown EnvStats

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

mlmpower

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Charlotte Baey

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2020)

Estelle Kuhn

Author

Releases (12)

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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
1.3.5Latest
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2023-09-22 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
extractFIM.lme
1.3.4
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2023-05-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
extractFIM.lme
1.3.3
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2023-05-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
extractStruct
1.3.2
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2023-05-03 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
extractStruct
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-03-08
1.3.1
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2022-03-08 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-02-24
requires archived package 'lmeresampler'
1.3.0
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2022-01-18 · diff ↗
1.2.0
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2021-12-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
bootinvFIM.saemix, varCompTest.saemix

added 2 exports
bootinvFIM.SaemixObject, varCompTest.SaemixObject
1.1.1
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2021-10-22 · diff ↗
1.1.0
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2021-10-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
dfChiBarSquare, weightsChiBarSquare

added 9 exports
bootinvFIM.lme, bootinvFIM.merMod, bootinvFIM.saemix, extractVarCov, extractVarCov.lme, extractVarCov.merMod, fim.vctest, print.vctest, summary.vctest

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R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.0
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2021-01-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 9 exports
eqCstr, extractFIMnlme, gradObjFunction, ineqCstr, jacobianEqCstr, jacobianIneqCstr, objFunction, symMatrixFromVect, varTest

added 6 exports
dfChiBarSquare, extractStruct, varCompTest, varCompTest.lme, varCompTest.merMod, varCompTest.saemix
0.2.0
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2020-07-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
bootinvFIM
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.0
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2020-01-10
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-01-10
Total releases: 12 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 44 KB

Appears in task views

Mixed, Multilevel, and Hierarchical Models in R

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("varTestnlme")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.18637/jss.v107.i06, 10.1016/j.csda.2019.01.014.

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 varTestnlme version 1.3.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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