Support new statistical models

[vincentarelbundock]

Feature request: Support new statistical models

modelsummary does not extract estimates or statistical results from model objects itself. Instead, it relies on the broom and the parameters packages to do this work.

The broom package uses two simple functions to extract model info: tidy and glance. In an ideal world, the package maintainers for individual statistical models would supply these functions for their models. Many maintainers are already doing this, as tidy and glance look like an emerging "standard" in the community.

If the package maintainer is unwilling or unable to implement these functions, the next best option is to file requests on the Github pages of the broom and/or parameters packages to request support for the model in question. Obviously, the maintainers of broom and parameters packages are doing this for free, and their time is limited, so it's always a great idea to supply code if possible.

Finally, if you just want modelsummary to work immediately with your (previously unsupported) model, it is very easy to define tidy and glance methods that will do the work for you. This section of the documentation gives the intuition and a couple very simple examples:

https://vincentarelbundock.github.io/modelsummary/articles/modelsummary.html#adding-new-models-part-i-

[vincentarelbundock]

This is now requested much less often since we rely on parameters and performance. I will close this.