R Observatory: Metrics for GB2group version 0.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

GB2group

0.3.0Package record

Estimation of the Generalised Beta Distribution of the Second Kind from Grouped Data

0packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Vanesa JordaCRAN page ↗

Estimation of the generalized beta distribution of the second kind (GB2) and related models using grouped data in form of income shares. The GB2 family is a general class of distributions that provides an accurate fit to income data. 'GB2group' includes functions to estimate the GB2, the Singh-Maddala, the Dagum, the Beta 2, the Lognormal and the Fisk distributions. 'GB2group' deploys two different econometric strategies to estimate these parametric distributions, the equally weighted minimum distance (EWMD) estimator and the optimally weighted minimum distance (OMD) estimator. Asymptotic standard errors are reported for the OMD estimates. Standard errors of the EWMD estimates are obtained by Monte Carlo simulation. See Jorda et al. (2018) arXiv:1808.09831 for a detailed description of the estimation procedure.

Install

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

install.packages("GB2group", 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-gb2group

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-GB2group

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-GB2group

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Vanesa Jorda <jordav@unican.es>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Vanesa",
                      family = "Jorda",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "jordav@unican.es"),
               person(given = c("Jose", "Maria"),
                      family = "Sarabia",
                      role = "aut",
                      email = "jose.sarabia@unican.es"),
               person(given = "Markus",
                      family = "Jäntti.",
                      role = "aut",
                      email = "markus.jantti@sofi.su.se"))
as necessary.

The Description field contains
  <arXiv:1808.09831> for a detailed description of the estimation
Please refer to arXiv e-prints via their arXiv DOI <doi:10.48550/arXiv.YYMM.NNNNN>.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE9 OK, 5 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.3.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 7
Examples that run: 100%7 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,199 · ~7/day · ~208/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30030 days

67290 days

2.5K1 year

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Also on63 r2u9 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing GB2group adds 16 packages (9 with compiled code, 15 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: cubature 3.2 MB, laeken 2.8 MB, survey 2.3 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (4)

GB2 minpack.lm ineq numDeriv

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (3)

Vanesa Jorda

Jose Maria Sarabia

Markus Jäntti.

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2018)

Releases (3)

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Package metadata

First published: 2018-11-14
Total releases: 3 / 8 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Download size: 20 KB

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for GB2group version 0.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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