R Observatory: Metrics for Qtools version 1.6.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Qtools

1.6.0Package record

Utilities for Quantiles

2packages depend

5.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Marco GeraciCRAN page ↗

Functions for unconditional and conditional quantiles. These include methods for transformation-based quantile regression, quantile-based measures of location, scale and shape, methods for quantiles of discrete variables, quantile-based multiple imputation, restricted quantile regression, directional quantile classification, and quantile ratio regression. A vignette is given in Geraci (2016, The R Journal) doi:10.32614/RJ-2016-037 and included in the package.

Changes in 1.6.0

new function qsmspline
CRAN request to add Rd cross-references

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("Qtools", 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-qtools

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-Qtools

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-Qtools

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  Qtools/R/Qtools.R (.Names: 1)
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTE2026-09-08
ERROR8 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-15
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08

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OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.6.0

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.6.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Description cites an R Journal article

Help pages: 64 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 57%12 run in a plain check · 9 never run
Exported functions with examples: 34%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 45%

Vignettes (1)

Qtools: A Collection of Models and Tools for Quantile Inference

How these are measured

Downloads

5.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,505 · ~16/day · ~482/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

52830 days

1.5K90 days

5.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on395 r2u7 autocran171 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing Qtools adds 21 packages (14 with compiled code, 15 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: cubature 3.2 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, crs 1.5 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (16)

bootconquer corpcor glmxgraphicsgrDevicesgtoolsMASSMatrixnp numDeriv quantdr quantreg Rcppstatsutils

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (4)

knitr mice rmarkdown survey

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

scpi nlmm

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Marco Geraci

Alessio Farcomeni

Contributor · added in 1.4

Contributions to midrq and qrr code

Cinzia Viroli

Contributor · added in 1.5.3

Contributions to dqc code

Releases (16)

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-02-04
Total releases: 16 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 126 KB / 5 files
Download size: 345 KB

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citation("Qtools")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Qtools version 1.6.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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