R Observatory: Metrics for EntropyEstimation version 1.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

EntropyEstimation

1.2.1

Estimation of Entropy and Related Quantities

3packages depend

11.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael GrabchakFirst published 2014-04-135 releasesCRAN page ↗

Contains methods for the estimation of Shannon's entropy, variants of Renyi's entropy, mutual information, Kullback-Leibler divergence, and generalized Simpson's indices. The estimators used have a bias that decays exponentially fast.

Install

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

install.packages("EntropyEstimation", 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-entropyestimation

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-EntropyEstimation

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-EntropyEstimation

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

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Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

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OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

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Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
References docs: 100%

Downloads

11.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,339 · ~32/day · ~961/mo

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Dependencies

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People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Michael Grabchak

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Michael Grabchak

Author, Maintainer

Lijuan Cao

Author

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Package metadata

First published: 2014-04-13
Total releases: 5 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 7.5 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Grabchak, M., & Cao, L. (2024). EntropyEstimation: Estimation of Entropy and Related Quantities (Version 1.2.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.EntropyEstimation

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for EntropyEstimation version 1.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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