AddiVortes: (Bayesian) Additive Voronoi Tessellations

Implements the Bayesian Additive Voronoi Tessellation model for non-parametric regression and machine learning as introduced in Stone and Gosling (2025) <doi:10.1080/10618600.2024.2414104>. This package provides a flexible alternative to BART (Bayesian Additive Regression Trees) using Voronoi tessellations instead of trees. Users can fit Bayesian regression models (estimating the associated posterior distributions and make predictions. It is particularly useful for spatial data analysis, machine learning regression, complex function approximation and Bayesian modeling where the underlying structure is unknown. The method is well-suited to capturing spatial patterns and non-linear relationships.

Version: 0.6.8
Depends: R (≥ 4.0.0)
Imports: parallel, pbapply (≥ 1.6)
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), withr, xml2
Published: 2026-07-30
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.AddiVortes
Author: Adam Stone ORCID iD [aut], John Paul Gosling ORCID iD [aut, cre], Andrew Iskauskas ORCID iD [aut]
Maintainer: John Paul Gosling <john-paul.gosling at durham.ac.uk>
BugReports: https://github.com/johnpaulgosling/AddiVortes/issues
License: GPL (≥ 3)
URL: https://johnpaulgosling.github.io/AddiVortes/
NeedsCompilation: yes
SystemRequirements: C++20
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: AddiVortes results [issues need fixing before 2026-08-21]

Documentation:

Reference manual: AddiVortes.html , AddiVortes.pdf
Vignettes: Using Categorical Covariates with AddiVortes (source, R code)
Machine Learning with AddiVortes: A Bayesian Alternative to BART (source, R code)
Bayesian Regression and Prediction with AddiVortes (source, R code)
Modelling Spherical Data with AddiVortes (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: AddiVortes_0.6.8.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: AddiVortes_0.6.8.zip, r-release: AddiVortes_0.4.8.zip, r-oldrel: AddiVortes_0.4.8.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): AddiVortes_0.6.8.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): AddiVortes_0.6.8.tgz, r-release (x86_64): AddiVortes_0.6.8.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): AddiVortes_0.6.8.tgz
Old sources: AddiVortes archive

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