R Observatory: Metrics for Benchmarking version 0.33

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Benchmarking

0.33Package record

Benchmark and Frontier Analysis Using DEA and SFA

7packages dependsuggested by 3

29.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Lars OttoCRAN page ↗

Methods for frontier analysis, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), under different technology assumptions (fdh, vrs, drs, crs, irs, add/frh, and fdh+), and using different efficiency measures (input based, output based, hyperbolic graph, additive, super, and directional efficiency). Peers and slacks are available, partial price information can be included, and optimal cost, revenue and profit can be calculated. Evaluation of mergers is also supported. Methods for graphing the technology sets are also included. There is also support for comparative methods based on Stochastic Frontier Analyses (SFA) and for convex nonparametric least squares of convex functions (STONED). In general, the methods can be used to solve not only standard models, but also many other model variants. It complements the book, Bogetoft and Otto, Benchmarking with DEA, SFA, and R, Springer-Verlag, 2011, but can of course also be used as a stand-alone package.

Install

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

install.packages("Benchmarking", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-benchmarking

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-Benchmarking

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-Benchmarking

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: 3.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.33

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 31includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 94%29 run in a plain check · 2 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 71%

How these are measured

Downloads

29.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,825 · ~81/day · ~2.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2K30 days

5.1K90 days

29.7K1 year

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Also on477 r2u43 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing Benchmarking adds 4 packages (4 with compiled code, 2.3 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, lpSolveAPI 479 KB, quadprog 35 KB.

Depends (3)

lpSolveAPI ucminf quadprog

Imports (5)

methodsstatsgraphicsgrDevicesRcpp

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

7direct

0indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 6

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Compind jackstrap farrell PEAXAI npbr hyperbolicDEA rcDEA

Suggests, most downloaded first

DEA deaviz metafrontier

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Lars Otto

Author, Maintainer since 0.10 (2010)

Peter Bogetoft

Author

Releases (19)

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efficiency

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excess, eladder, eladder.plot, dea.direct, dea.boot, mea, mea.lines, efficiencies
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effi, add.dea, print.Farrell, summary.Farrell, print.slack, summary.slack, print.sfa, summary.sfa, residuals.sfa, logLik.sfa, coef.sfa, te1.sfa, te2.sfa

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Package metadata

First published: 2010-09-12
Total releases: 19 / 16 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Bundled data: 33 KB / 5 files
Download size: 138 KB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Benchmarking version 0.33 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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