R Observatory: Metrics for MLE version 1.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MLE

1.8

Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Various Univariate and Multivariate Distributions

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4.2Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Michail TsagrisFirst published 2024-07-219 releasesCRAN page ↗

Several functions for maximum likelihood estimation of various univariate and multivariate distributions. The list includes more than 100 functions for univariate continuous and discrete distributions, distributions that lie on the real line, the positive line, interval restricted, circular distributions. Further, multivariate continuous and discrete distributions, distributions for compositional and directional data, etc. Some references include Johnson N. L., Kotz S. and Balakrishnan N. (1994). "Continuous Univariate Distributions, Volume 1" <ISBN:978-0-471-58495-7>, Johnson, Norman L. Kemp, Adrianne W. Kotz, Samuel (2005). "Univariate Discrete Distributions". <ISBN:978-0-471-71580-1> and Mardia, K. V. and Jupp, P. E. (2000). "Directional Statistics". <ISBN:978-0-471-95333-3>.

Install

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

install.packages("MLE", 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-mle

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-MLE

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

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

13

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 100%

Downloads

4.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,791 · ~12/day · ~351/mo

Releases R versions

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20730 days

1.3K90 days

4.2K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (13)

BGFD bivpois CCd COMPoissonReg Compositional Directional foldedt geppe gp MN Rfast Rfast2 svmf

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

mvcauchy rangen

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Michail Tsagris

Author, Maintainer

Authors (4)

Michail Tsagris

Author, Maintainer

Nikolaos Kontemeniotis

Author · added in 1.4

Sofia Piperaki

Author

Rafail Vargiakakis

Author · added in 1.4

Contributors (1)

Muhammad Imran

Contributor

Package Timeline

9 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

1.8Latest
2026-06-20 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.7
2026-03-27 · diff ↗
1.6
2025-10-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.5
2025-04-03 · diff ↗
1.4
2025-02-17 · diff ↗
1.3
2024-12-16 · diff ↗
1.2
2024-10-24 · diff ↗
1.1
2024-09-10 · diff ↗
1.0
2024-07-21
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-07-21
Total releases: 9 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Download size: 26 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Tsagris, M., Imran, M., Kontemeniotis, N., Piperaki, S., & Vargiakakis, R. (2026). MLE: Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Various Univariate and Multivariate Distributions (Version 1.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.MLE

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for MLE version 1.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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