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PMA

1.2-4

Penalized Multivariate Analysis

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27.1Kdownloads / year
test coverage
13/13checks pass

Overview

About
Maintained by Balasubramanian NarasimhanFirst published 2009-02-1218 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Performs Penalized Multivariate Analysis: a penalized matrix decomposition, sparse principal components analysis, and sparse canonical correlation analysis, described in Witten, Tibshirani and Hastie (2009) doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxp008 and Witten and Tibshirani (2009) Extensions of sparse canonical correlation analysis, with applications to genomic data doi:10.2202/1544-6115.1470.

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Health

CRAN checks
13OK
Slowest check: 3.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64
Code health
None
Tests · ratio 0.00
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Coverage
100%
Documentation · exports
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Dependencies · direct
Check history
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    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

Documentation
READMEYes · 13 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo
Examples that run
89%
Documented parameters
99%
Return-value docs
90%
References docs
100%

Downloads

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Repository

Repository
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Repository practices

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Continuous integration (1)
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Docs source (1)
README.Rmd
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Dependencies

Declared dependencies
0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)
Depends (1)
R >= 2.10
Imports (1)
utils
LinkingTo (0)
none
Suggests (0)
none
Enhances (0)
none
Reverse dependencies
5direct
0indirect

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)
Maintainer (1)
Maintainer, Author · added in 1.0.8
Authors (4)
Maintainer, Author · added in 1.0.8
Author · added in 1.0.4
Package Timeline

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

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    R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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    R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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    R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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    R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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    R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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    R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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  • unarchivedReturned to CRAN
    2020-01-16
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    R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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    R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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  • orphanedOrphaned by its maintainer
    2018-04-20
    check problems were not corrected despite multiple notifications Including C++ misuse of = for == and non-registration of S3 methods
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    R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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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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    R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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    R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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    R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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    R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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    R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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    R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
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    R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
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    R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
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    2009-10-23 · diff ↗
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    R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17
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    2009-02-16 · diff ↗
  • 1.0
    2009-02-12
  • R
    R 2.8.0 released · 2008-10-20

Package metadata

First published
2009-02-12
Total releases
18 / 17 yrs
License
GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R
≥ 2.10
Download size
76 KB
Installed size
not tracked yet
With dependencies
not tracked yet

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("PMA")
Narasimhan, B., Gross, S., Tibshirani, R., & Witten, D. (2024). PMA: Penalized Multivariate Analysis (Version 1.2-4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.PMA

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for PMA version 1.2-4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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