R Observatory: Metrics for Qest version 1.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Qest

1.0.2

Quantile-Based Estimator

0packages depend

2.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Gianluca SottileFirst published 2022-04-053 releasesCRAN page ↗

Quantile-based estimators (Q-estimators) can be used to fit any parametric distribution, using its quantile function. Q-estimators are usually more robust than standard maximum likelihood estimators. The method is described in: Sottile G. and Frumento P. (2022). Robust estimation and regression with parametric quantile functions. doi:10.1016/j.csda.2022.107471.

Install

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

install.packages("Qest", 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-qest

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-Qest

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-Qest

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

33%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 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: 83%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 63%

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,439 · ~7/day · ~203/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (5)

pchsurvivalmatrixStatsmethodsutils

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LinkingTo (0)

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Suggests (0)

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Enhances (0)

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Gianluca Sottile

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Gianluca Sottile

Author, Maintainer

Paolo Frumento

Author

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2022-04-05
Total releases: 3 / 4 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 85 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("Qest")

Format

Sottile, G., & Frumento, P. (2025). Qest: Quantile-Based Estimator (Version 1.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.Qest

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Qest version 1.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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