R Observatory: Metrics for Kurt version 1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Kurt

1.1

Performs Kurtosis-Based Statistical Analyses

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2.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Cinzia FranceschiniFirst published 2020-02-212 releasesCRAN page ↗

Computes measures of multivariate kurtosis, matrices of fourth-order moments and cumulants, kurtosis-based projection pursuit. Franceschini, C. and Loperfido, N. (2018, ISBN:978-3-319-73905-2). "An Algorithm for Finding Projections with Extreme Kurtosis". Loperfido, N. (2017,ISSN:0024-3795). "A New Kurtosis Matrix, with Statistical Applications".

Install

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

install.packages("Kurt", 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-kurt

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-Kurt

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-Kurt

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

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NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

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Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 100%

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,693 · ~6/day · ~189/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (4)

labstatR matrixcalc polynom (>= 1.4-0)expm

Imports (0)

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Suggests (0)

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Cinzia Franceschini

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Cinzia Franceschini

Author, Maintainer

Nicola Loperfido

Author

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-02-21
Total releases: 2 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 17 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Franceschini, C., & Loperfido, N. (2021). Kurt: Performs Kurtosis-Based Statistical Analyses (Version 1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.Kurt

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Kurt version 1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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