R Observatory: Metrics for PoissonBinomial version 1.2.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

PoissonBinomial

1.2.8Package record

Efficient Computation of Ordinary and Generalised Poisson Binomial Distributions

4packages dependsuggested by 1

28.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Florian JungeCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Efficient implementations of multiple exact and approximate methods as described in Hong (2013) doi:10.1016/j.csda.2012.10.006, Biscarri, Zhao & Brunner (2018) doi:10.1016/j.csda.2018.01.007 and Zhang, Hong & Balakrishnan (2018) doi:10.1080/00949655.2018.1440294 for computing the probability mass, cumulative distribution and quantile functions, as well as generating random numbers for both the ordinary and generalised Poisson binomial distribution.

Changes in 1.2.8

Addresses future Rcpp changes that would cause compiler warnings
Minor documentation updates

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("PoissonBinomial", 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("fj86/PoissonBinomial")

Development version from fj86/PoissonBinomial. 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-poissonbinomial

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-PoissonBinomial

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-PoissonBinomial

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: 8.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-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

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.8

READMENoVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2.8Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 3includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 82%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 67%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

28.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,683 · ~78/day · ~2.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2K30 days

5.8K90 days

28.6K1 year

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Also on597 r2u9 autocran4.2K conda_forge57 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

fj86/poissonbinomial ↗Account: fj86

3Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

34Commits

2Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 34 commits · Last activity 2026-03-06

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 318
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2024-07-03 · 32026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/fj86/poissonbinomial on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing PoissonBinomial adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 1.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown microbenchmark

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 2 · LinkingTo 2

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

FDX Rediscover surveyvoi netcutter

Suggests, most downloaded first

distributions3

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Florian Junge

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2020)

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-01-22
Total releases: 17 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 98 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("PoissonBinomial")

Format

Junge, F. (2026). PoissonBinomial: Efficient Computation of Ordinary and Generalised Poisson Binomial Distributions (Version 1.2.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.PoissonBinomial

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 PoissonBinomial version 1.2.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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