R Observatory: Metrics for Kurt version 1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Kurt

1.1Package record

Performs Kurtosis-Based Statistical Analyses

0packages depend

2.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Cinzia FranceschiniCRAN 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. 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-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). 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: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-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 1.1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 9includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%8 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,845 · ~7/day · ~200/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

23730 days

67190 days

2.4K1 year

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Also on70 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing Kurt adds 4 packages (1 with compiled code, 621 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: polynom 327 KB, expm 145 KB, labstatR 119 KB.

Depends (4)

labstatR matrixcalc polynom (>= 1.4-0)expm

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Cinzia Franceschini

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2020)

Nicola Loperfido

Author

Releases (2)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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2021-09-20
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2020-10-22
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2020-02-21
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-02-21
Total releases: 2 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 17 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("Kurt")

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

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Kurt version 1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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