ernest: A Toolkit for Nested Sampling
Bayesian evidence estimation and posterior inference with the nested sampling algorithm, described in Skilling (2006) <doi:10.1214/06-BA127> and Buchner (2023) <doi:10.1214/23-SS144>, along with S3 methods for simulating uncertainty and creating visualisations.
| Version: | 1.2.4 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: | cli, generics, ggplot2, lifecycle, matrixStats, posterior, rlang (≥ 1.1.0), vctrs, withr |
| LinkingTo: | cpp11, cpp11eigen, testthat |
| Suggests: | brms, distributional, extraDistr, ggdist, knitr, mvtnorm, patchwork, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), tidyselect, uniformly, vdiffr, xml2 |
| Published: | 2026-06-30 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.ernest (may not be active yet) |
| Author: | Kyle Dewsnap 
[aut, cre, cph],
TJ Mahr [rev],
Robert Kubinec [rev],
Michael Hughes [cph] |
| Maintainer: | Kyle Dewsnap <kyle.dewsnap at ubc.ca> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/ropensci/ernest/issues |
| License: | GPL (≥ 3) |
| URL: | https://github.com/ropensci/ernest, https://docs.ropensci.org/ernest/ |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| Citation: | ernest citation info |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | ernest results [issues need fixing before 2026-07-14] |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | ernest.html , ernest.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
More Examples with ernest (source, R code) Nested Sampling with ernest (source, R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | ernest_1.2.4.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): ernest_1.2.4.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): ernest_1.2.4.tgz, r-release (x86_64): ernest_1.2.4.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): ernest_1.2.4.tgz |
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