R Observatory: Metrics for MASS version 7.3-66

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MASS

7.3-66Package record

Support Functions and Datasets for Venables and Ripley's MASS

2,173packages dependsuggested by 795

2.1Mdownloads / year

35.8%test coverage

12/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Brian RipleyCRAN page ↗Website ↗

Functions and datasets to support Venables and Ripley, "Modern Applied Statistics with S" (4th edition, 2002).

Install

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

install.packages("MASS", 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-mass

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-MASS

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-MASS

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

1NOTE12OK

Check messages

NOTEcompiled coder-devel-windows-x86_64

Note: information on .o files for x64 is not available
File 'd:/Rcompile/CRANpkg/lib/4.7/MASS/libs/x64/MASS.dll':
  Found '_exit', possibly from '_exit' (C)
  Found 'abort', possibly from 'abort' (C), 'runtime' (Fortran)

Compiled code should not call entry points which might terminate R nor
write to stdout/stderr instead of to the console, nor use Fortran I/O
nor system RNGs nor [v]sprintf. The detected symbols are linked into
the code but might come from libraries and not actually be called.

See 'Writing portable packages' in the 'Writing R Extensions' manual.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-10-17
OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-09-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-31

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OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-19
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK13 OK2026-06-27
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-24
OK13 OK2026-05-11
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-10
OK13 OK2026-04-30
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-28
OK14 OK2026-04-24
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-22
OK14 OK2026-04-18
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-16
OK14 OK2026-03-31
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-28
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 7.3-66

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Help pages: 155 (2 internal)
Examples that run: 100%79 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 77%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 91%
Help pages citing references: 82%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.1M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #224 · ~5.6K/day · ~171.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

249.6K30 days

632.6K90 days

2.1M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on102.4K r2u5.5K autocran1.5M conda_forge5.2K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing MASS adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (5)

R >= 4.4.0grDevicesgraphicsstatsutils

Imports (1)

methods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

latticenlmennetsurvival

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2,173direct

3,911indirect

Depends 314 · Imports 1,859

Suggested by 795

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 2,125 more dependents and 795 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Brian Ripley

Author, Maintainer since 7.3-0 (2009), Copyright holder

Bill Venables

Author, Copyright holder · added in 7.3-20

Douglas M. Bates

Contributor

David Firth

Contributor · added in 7.3-17

support functions for polr

Albrecht Gebhardt

Translator · added in 7.3-17

partial port ca 1998

Kurt Hornik

Translator

partial port ca 1998

Listed in earlier versions (4)

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Albrecht Gebhardt.

no longer listed · 7.3-0 to 7.3-8

Venables

no longer listed · 7.3-0 to 7.3-16

Albrecht Gebhardt around 1998.

no longer listed · 7.3-9 to 7.3-16

Douglas M.

no longer listed · 7.3-27 to 7.3-66

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Package metadata

First published: 2009-05-08
Total releases: 78 / 17 yrs
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.4.0
Bundled data: 166 KB / 87 files
Download size: 498 KB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for MASS version 7.3-66 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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