R Observatory: Metrics for MESS version 0.6.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MESS

0.6.0Package record

Miscellaneous Esoteric Statistical Scripts

6packages depend

51.8Kdownloads / year

4.9%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Claus Thorn EkstrømCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A mixed collection of useful and semi-useful diverse statistical functions, some of which may even be referenced in The R Primer book. See Ekstrøm, C. T. (2016). The R Primer. 2nd edition. Chapman & Hall.

Install

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

install.packages("MESS", 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("ekstroem/MESS")

Development version from ekstroem/MESS. 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-mess

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-MESS

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespace in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘Rcpp’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 7.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-05-02
ERROR9 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
NOTE10 OK, 4 NOTE2026-04-22

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ERROR9 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE10 OK, 4 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.6.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWS· In the repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileNo

Help pages: 86 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 94%75 run in a plain check · 5 never run
Exported functions with examples: 94%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 89%
Help pages citing references: 21%

How these are measured

Downloads

51.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,480 · ~142/day · ~4.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.1K30 days

6.5K90 days

51.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on647 r2u4.5K conda_forge374 bioconda174 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ekstroem/mess ↗Account: ekstroem

4Stars

9Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

276Commits

3Commit identities

statistical-methodsbiostatisticsstatistical-analysisstatistical-modelspower-analysis

276 commits · Last activity 2025-09-11

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2022-04-30 · 42026-07-07 · 4

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/ekstroem/mess on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-09-11

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing MESS adds 88 packages (45 with compiled code, 76 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggformula 6.0 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (13)

MASSMatrixRcpp clipr geepack geeM ggplot2 ggformula glmnet kinship2methodsmvtnormparallel

LinkingTo (3)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo RcppParallel

Suggests (5)

knitr lme4 magrittr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

5indirect

Depends 2 · Imports 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

cgmanalysis geeasy cp4p citationchaser TPEA ssev

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Claus Thorn Ekstrøm

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.4-15

Niels Aske Lundtorp Olsen

Contributor · added in 0.5.12

Maintainer since 0.1-1 (2012)

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Claus Ekstrom

no longer listed · 0.1-1 to 0.3-2

Claus Ekstrøm

no longer listed · 0.4-3

Releases (17)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.6.0Latest
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2025-09-13 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
pairwise_distance_correlation
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.5.12
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2023-08-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
clipit
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.5.9
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2022-06-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
loadRData
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.5.7
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2020-07-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
dCor, dCov, founder.shared, hwe_frequencies, maximum_subarray, plr, usd
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.5.6
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2019-09-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
colCumSum, residual_plot, rnorm_perfect
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.5.5
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2019-01-14 · diff ↗
0.5.4
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2018-12-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
add_torows
0.5.3
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2018-11-23 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
mestimate, onemargintest, rowMeansCond

added 3 exports
conditional_rowMeans, monte_carlo_chisq_test, pairwise.cor.test

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0.5.2
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2018-05-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
bin, pairwise_combination_indices
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2018-01-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
cumsumbinning, ks_cumtest, mestimate, pairwise_Schur_product, power_prop_test, rowMeansCond, rud
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.4-15
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2017-04-10 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
mfastLm_cpp, power.binom.test, power.mcnemar.test, power.t.test

added 10 exports
categorize, expand_table, mfastLmCpp, onemargintest, power_binom_test, power_mcnemar_test, power_t_test, prepost.test, round_percent, screen_variables
0.4-3
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2016-06-21 · diff ↗ ·
removed 14 exports
drop1.geeglm, pattern:print.geekin, pattern:common\\.shared.*, pattern:residualplot.*, pattern:QIC.*, pattern:wallyplot.*, pattern:segregate.genes, pattern:rmvtnorm.pedigree, pattern:rmvt.pedigree, pattern:feature.test, pattern:power*, pattern:gkgamma, pattern:desctable.*, pattern:adaptive.weights

added 29 exports
QIC, adaptive.weights, age, col.alpha, col.shade, col.tint, extended.shared, fac2num, feature.test, filldown, gkgamma, ht, mfastLm_cpp, panel.hist, panel.r2, power.binom.test, power.mcnemar.test, power.t.test, qdiag, quadform, repmat, residualplot, rmvt.pedigree, rmvtnorm.pedigree, segregate.genes, sinv, tracemp, wallyplot, write.xml
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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2014-10-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
pattern:power*, pattern:gkgamma, pattern:desctable.*, pattern:adaptive.weights
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
0.2-1
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2014-03-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
geekin, pattern:print.geekin, pattern:segregate.genes, pattern:rmvtnorm.pedigree, pattern:rmvt.pedigree, pattern:feature.test
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
0.1-6
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2013-03-25 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
pattern:^[[:alpha:]]+

added 11 exports
auc, cmd, common.shared, drop1.geeglm, lower.tri.vector, ordered.clusters, rootonorm, pattern:common\\.shared.*, pattern:residualplot.*, pattern:QIC.*, pattern:wallyplot.*
0.1-5
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2012-11-28 · diff ↗
0.1-1
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2012-06-20
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2012-06-20
Total releases: 17 / 14 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Bundled data: 2.7 MB / 18 files
Download size: 2.7 MB

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citation("MESS")

Format

Ekstrøm, C. T., & Olsen, N. A. L. (2025). MESS: Miscellaneous Esoteric Statistical Scripts (Version 0.6.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.MESS

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for MESS version 0.6.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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