R Observatory: Metrics for AnthropMMD version 4.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

AnthropMMD

4.1.0Package record

An R Package for the Mean Measure of Divergence (MMD)

0packages depend

5.3Kdownloads / year

32.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Frédéric SantosCRAN page ↗GitLab ↗

Offers a graphical user interface for the calculation of the mean measure of divergence, with facilities for trait selection and graphical representations doi:10.1002/ajpa.23336.

Changes in 4.1.0

In the user-interface, the "significance" of MMDs are now decided using Sjovold's rule-of-thumb (the MMD value must be greater than twice its standard deviation). The p-values are not used for that purpose anymore, since their validity is still highly discussed in the literature, and relies on often unrealistic hypotheses.
In the same spirit, p-values have now been totally removed from the package. {AnthropMMD} now only provides ratios MMD/sd(MMD), as in Bertsatos' Octave script (see Bertsatos & Chovalopoulou, 2016).

Other minor changes

More unit tests have been added, and some unit tests have been rewritten.
A codemeta.json file has been added to provide a better structure for the package's metadata.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("AnthropMMD", 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("f-santos/anthropmmd")

Development version from f-santos/anthropmmd. 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-anthropmmd

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-AnthropMMD

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-AnthropMMD

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: 3.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-02

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ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 4.1.0

READMEYes · 254 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 4.1.0Citation fileYes · cites a publication

Help pages: 11includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 67%6 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 73%

Vignettes (1)

An overview of AnthropMMD

How these are measured

Downloads

5.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,437 · ~15/day · ~445/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

64030 days

1.5K90 days

5.3K1 year

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Also on100 r2u18 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

gitlab.com/f-santos/anthropmmd ↗

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

233Commits

1Commit identities

binary databiodistancesdistancesRstatistics

License file reads as CECILL-2.1 · 233 commits · Last activity 2026-09-11

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against gitlab.com/f-santos/anthropmmd on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

GitLab CI

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing AnthropMMD adds 113 packages (61 with compiled code, 89 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (7)

dplyrMASSplotrix rlang scatterplot3d shiny smacof

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

clustercovr knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Frédéric Santos

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.4.0

Maintainer since 0.9.4 (2013)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Frederic Santos

no longer listed · 0.9.4 to 2.3.3

Releases (24)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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added 2 exports
mmd_boot, plot.anthropmmd_boot
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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removed 1 export
plot_mmd

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plot.anthropmmd_result
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2019-07-05 · diff ↗ ·
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binary_to_table, mmd, plot_mmd, select_traits, start_mmd, table_relfreq
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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removed 1 export
pattern:^[[:alpha:]]+

added 1 export
StartMMD
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2013-02-05
Total releases: 24 / 13 yrs
License: CeCILL-2 | file LICENSE
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 1.8 KB / 2 files
Download size: 109 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("AnthropMMD")

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

It points to 10.1002/ajpa.23336.

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 AnthropMMD version 4.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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