R Observatory: Metrics for MDCcure version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MDCcure

0.1.0Package record

Martingale Dependence Tools and Testing for Mixture Cure Models

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2.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Blanca Monroy-CastilloCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Computes martingale difference correlation (MDC), martingale difference divergence, and their partial extensions to assess conditional mean dependence. The methods are based on Shao and Zhang (2014) doi:10.1080/01621459.2014.887012. Additionally, introduces a novel hypothesis test for evaluating covariate effects on the cure rate in mixture cure models, using MDC-based statistics. The methodology is described in Monroy-Castillo et al. (2025, manuscript submitted).

Install

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

install.packages("MDCcure", 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("CastleMon/MDCcure")

Development version from CastleMon/MDCcure. 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-mdccure

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-MDCcure

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-MDCcure

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: 5.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-22

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 9
Examples that run: 100%7 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 78%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 89%

Vignettes (1)

MDCcure HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,889 · ~6/day · ~187/mo

Releases R versions

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29030 days

66490 days

2.2K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

castlemon/mdccure ↗Account: CastleMon

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0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

Last activity 2025-07-20

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/castlemon/mdccure on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing MDCcure adds 44 packages (23 with compiled code, 34 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (10)

Rcpp RcppParallel ggplot2 ggtext gridExtra future future.apply smcure npcuresurvival

LinkingTo (3)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo RcppParallel

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown pinp

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Blanca Monroy-Castillo

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2025)

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Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0Latest
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2025-07-23 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-07-23
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 88 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("MDCcure")

Format

Monroy-Castillo, B., Amalia Jácome, Ingrid Van Keilegom, Ricardo Cao, & Ursula Müller. (2025). MDCcure: Martingale Dependence Tools and Testing for Mixture Cure Models (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.MDCcure

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 MDCcure version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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