R Observatory: Metrics for NovelDistns version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

NovelDistns

0.1.0

Computes PDF, CDF, Quantile, Random Numbers and Measures of Inference for 3 General Families of Distributions

0packages depend

2.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Mutua KilaiFirst published 2022-05-131 releasesCRAN page ↗

Computes the probability density function, the cumulative density function, quantile function, random numbers and measures of inference for the following families exponentiated generalized gull alpha power family, exponentiated gull alpha powerfamily, gull alpha power family.

Install

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

install.packages("NovelDistns", 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-noveldistns

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-NovelDistns

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-NovelDistns

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 51 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

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Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 25%

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #22,130 · ~6/day · ~188/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (4)

AdequacyModel gsl rootSolvestats

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Suggests (0)

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Listed in earlier versions (3)

Wanjoya Kibira

no longer listed · 0.1.0

Mutua Kilai

no longer listed · 0.1.0

Gichuhi Waititu

no longer listed · 0.1.0

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2022-05-13
Total releases: 1 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 3.3 KB / 5 files
Download size: 10 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for NovelDistns version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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