R Observatory: Metrics for Ball version 1.3.13

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Ball

1.3.13Package record

Statistical Inference and Sure Independence Screening via Ball Statistics

2packages dependsuggested by 3

6.1Kdownloads / year

58.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jin ZhuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Hypothesis tests and sure independence screening (SIS) procedure based on ball statistics, including ball divergence doi:10.1214/17-AOS1579, ball covariance doi:10.1080/01621459.2018.1543600, and ball correlation doi:10.1080/01621459.2018.1462709, are developed to analyze complex data in metric spaces, e.g, shape, directional, compositional and symmetric positive definite matrix data. The ball divergence and ball covariance based distribution-free tests are implemented to detecting distribution difference and association in metric spaces doi:10.18637/jss.v097.i06. Furthermore, several generic non-parametric feature selection procedures based on ball correlation, BCor-SIS and all of its variants, are implemented to tackle the challenge in the context of ultra high dimensional data. A fast implementation for large-scale multiple K-sample testing with ball divergence <doi: 10.1002/gepi.22423> is supported, which is particularly helpful for genome-wide association study.

Changes in 1.3.13

Fix issues found by the CRAN check.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("Ball", 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("Mamba413/Ball")

Development version from Mamba413/Ball. 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-ball

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-Ball

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-Ball

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: 3.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.13

READMEYes · 718 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.3.13Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 12
Examples that run: 71%5 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 92%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

6.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,798 · ~17/day · ~508/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

52430 days

1.4K90 days

6.1K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

mamba413/ball ↗Account: Mamba413

32Stars

2Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

358Commits

1Commit identities

sure-independence-screeningindependence-testsk-sample-testball-divergenceball-covarianceball-correlationfeature-selection

358 commits · Last activity 2026-04-17 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 23
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-04-15 · 312026-07-22 · 32

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mamba413/ball on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI (config file)AppVeyor

Docs source (2)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-04-17 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-04-17

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-03-21
Named in .gitignore: CLAUDE.md
Commits: at least 8 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.68 commits · Mar to Apr 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing Ball adds 4 packages (2 with compiled code, 1.6 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: mvtnorm 1.0 MB, iterators 293 KB, gam 198 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (4)

utilsgamsurvivalmvtnorm

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

1indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

MD2sample MFSIS

Suggests, most downloaded first

DataSimilarity copulaSim moderncor

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (10)

Jin Zhu

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2018)

Yue Hu

Author · added in 1.3.12

Chengfeng Liu

Author

Ruihuang Liu

Author · added in 1.3.8

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Package metadata

First published: 2018-01-03
Total releases: 13 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 1.8 MB / 5 files
Download size: 2.3 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("Ball")

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

It points to 10.18637/jss.v097.i06.

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Ball version 1.3.13 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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