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Getting help with flexyBayes

Thanks for using flexyBayes. The fastest path to a useful answer depends on what kind of question you have.

Where to ask

Question type Where
"How do I do X with flexyBayes?" GitHub Discussions — Q&A
"I think this is a bug." GitHub Issues — bug report — please include a reprex.
"I'd like a new feature / backend / capability." GitHub Issues — feature request
Security-sensitive disclosure See SECURITY.md — please do not open a public issue.
General Bayesian-mixed-model methodology Stan Forums or INLA mailing list — broader and more active than this project.

Maintenance capacity

flexyBayes is currently maintained by a small team within the Australian Agricultural Genomics Institute (AAGI-AUS) collective.

Note. The bus-factor / SLA / abandonment-protocol entries below are pending the AAGI-AUS collective conversation that also governs project decisions D5 (paper coauthors), D8 (upstream rename), and D10 (paper venue). Until that conversation lands, do not infer commitments from this file beyond the items already labelled with concrete values. This file is .Rbuildignore'd and ships only on the GitHub repository / pkgdown site, not in the CRAN tarball.

Field Current value Notes
Primary maintainer Max Moldovan Adelaide University; contact via package author email.
Bus factor Pending AAGI-AUS collective decision Will be set jointly with D5 / D8 / D10.
Weekly maintenance hours Pending AAGI-AUS collective decision The median across recent quarters will be reported once measured.
Issue response SLA Pending AAGI-AUS collective decision No SLA committed on the 0.10.0 development line.
Critical security SLA 7 days See SECURITY.md.
Abandonment protocol Pending AAGI-AUS collective decision; default fallback = AAGI-AUS institutional handover Concrete handover / archive plan ratified with D5 / D8.

Reprex etiquette

A reproducible example (reprex) is encouraged, and should minimally the following:

  1. A small data.frame we can copy-paste.
  2. The exact flexybayes() / fb() call.
  3. The full output of sessionInfo() — especially the INLA and brms / Stan versions.
  4. The error / unexpected output, copied verbatim.

For runtime issues, please run with verbose = TRUE and include the emitted backend code (the Stan program for backend = "brms", the printed INLA formula for backend = "inla").

What we cannot help with

  • General R help — see Stack Overflow [r].
  • ASReml-R proprietary syntax outside the subset that flexyBayes implements — see VSNi support.
  • INLA model-tuning beyond the lgm_gate() / priors_to_inla() surface — see r-inla.org.
  • Stan toolchain installation for the brms backend — see mc-stan.org and the rstan getting-started guide.