R Observatory: Metrics for priorsense version 1.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

priorsense

1.4.0Package record

Prior Diagnostics and Sensitivity Analysis

0packages dependsuggested by 5

54.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Noa KallioinenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides functions for prior and likelihood sensitivity analysis in Bayesian models. Currently it implements methods to determine the sensitivity of the posterior to power-scaling perturbations of the prior and likelihood.

Changes in 1.4.0

priorsense is now an official Stan package, and links to pages and repositories have been updated
Plot help text now prints to the console rather than on the plot
powerscale_plot_quantities() now highlights the line segment closer to 1 when k-hat is high

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("priorsense", 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("stan-dev/priorsense")

Development version from stan-dev/priorsense. 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-priorsense

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-priorsense

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-priorsense

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: 3.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-17
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-04
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.4.0

READMEYes · 345 wordsVignettesYes · 6 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 1.4.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 12includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 91%10 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 33%

Vignettes (6)

How these are measured

Downloads

54.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,076 · ~148/day · ~4.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.3K30 days

8.7K90 days

54.1K1 year

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Also on317 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

stan-dev/priorsense ↗Organization: stan-dev

84Stars

17Forks

2Open issues

1Open PRs

2Releases

797Commits

12Commit identities

bayesian-data-analysisbayesian-methodsprior-distributionr-packagesensitivity-analysisstanbayesianr

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 797 commits · Last activity 2026-09-29 · +1.2% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 92%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 67
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-23 · 642026-10-14 · 84

Earlier repositories

github.com/n-kall/priorsense · last recorded on 2026-09-30

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/stan-dev/priorsense on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, and on R-devel

Governance and community (3)

Contributing guideFunding

Funding links: GitHub Sponsors, mc-stan.org

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-30 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-30

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (2)

CITATION.cffcodemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing priorsense adds 35 packages (17 with compiled code, 21 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, ggdist 1.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (13)

checkmate cli ggdist ggh4x ggplot2grDevicesgridmatrixStats posterior rlangstatstibbleutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

bayesplot brms cmdstanr iwmm nimble philentropy quarto R2jags rstan testthat transport vdiffr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 5

Suggests, most downloaded first

brms bsitar hbsaems gp3bayes epidist

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (7)

Noa Kallioinen

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2024)

Paul-Christian Bürkner

Author

Author

Author

Contributor

Reviewer · added in 1.4.0

Simon Taylor

Reviewer · added in 1.4.0

Releases (9)

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Package metadata

First published: 2024-06-20
Total releases: 9 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Additional repositories: topipa.r-universe.dev, stan-dev.r-universe.dev
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 6.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("priorsense")

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

It points to 10.21105/joss.11036, 10.1007/s11222-023-10366-5, 10.1007/s11222-020-09982-2.

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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 priorsense version 1.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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