R Observatory: Metrics for MBBEFDLite version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MBBEFDLite

1.0.0Package record

Statistical Functions for the Maxwell-Boltzmann-Bose-Einstein-Fermi-Dirac (MBBEFD) Family of Distributions

0packages depend

5Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Avraham AdlerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides probability mass, distribution, quantile, random variate generation, and method-of-moments parameter fitting for the MBBEFD family of distributions used in insurance modeling as described in Bernegger (1997) doi:10.2143/AST.27.1.563208 without any external dependencies.

Changes in 1.0.0

Added

**Breaking:** Added a form of Algorithm 3 in Bernegger (2026) to mommb. Instead of a grid-search, the LS algorithm is a nested pair of 1-dimensional line searches along g and b. Experimentation shows that it almost always converges to the "same" values---close to machine precision---as the original expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm, and fails to converge in similar scenarios as the EM algorithm. Provided for completeness and in gratitude to Dr. Bernegger.
**Breaking:** Added new parameters maxb, minb, maxg, and ming. The maxb parameter is used in both fitting algorithms. The others are only used in the LS algorithm.
Added a fast C implementation of the dilogarithm function for use in the LS algorithm.
Added more informative error messages.
Added and updated unit tests.

Changed

**Breaking:** Given the additional algorithm and parameters, the call for mommb has been changed. See the documentation for the new order of parameters and the options list. This is the first "mature" release. Any breaking changes going forward will be announced in advance and will have a deprecation period.
Hardened and optimized underlying C and R code for speed and error protection.

Fixed

Fixed errors in the documentation including copy-paste errors referencing rnorm instead of rmb, etc.

From inst/NEWS.Rd in the release

Install

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

install.packages("MBBEFDLite", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("aadler/MBBEFDLite")

Development version from aadler/MBBEFDLite. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-mbbefdlite

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-MBBEFDLite

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-MBBEFDLite

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: 2.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-12
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-11
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

READMEYes · 107 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · mentions 1.0.0Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 5 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 60%

How these are measured

Downloads

5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,586 · ~14/day · ~416/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

35630 days

96890 days

5K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

aadler/mbbefdlite ↗Account: aadler

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

248Commits

2Commit identities

248 commits · Last activity 2026-03-11

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2024-05-16 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/aadler/mbbefdlite on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (3)

Code of conductContributing guideSecurity policy

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

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LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

tinytest covr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Avraham Adler

Releases (7)

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Package metadata

First published: 2024-05-15
Total releases: 7 / 2 yrs
License: MPL-2.0 OSI
Download size: 24 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("MBBEFDLite")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for MBBEFDLite version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-19, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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