R Observatory: Metrics for StableEstim version 2.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

StableEstim

2.4Package record

Estimate the Four Parameters of Stable Laws using Different Methods

2packages depend

7.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Georgi N. BoshnakovCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Estimate the four parameters of stable laws using maximum likelihood method, generalised method of moments with finite and continuum number of points, iterative Koutrouvelis regression and Kogon-McCulloch method. The asymptotic properties of the estimators (covariance matrix, confidence intervals) are also provided.

Changes in 2.4

Now RelativeErr (used in the condition to terminate the loop) in ComputeITGMMParametersEstim()and ComputeCueGMMParametersEstim() (called by GMMParametersEstim() when algo = "ITGMM" or "CueGMM") remains scalar in the second and subsequent iterations of the while loop. Previously it was becoming a vector from the second iteration on, throwing an error or giving warning in recent versions of R. Thanks to Cedric Juessen who reported and diagnosed it. (fixes #1)
moved some dependencies from Imports to Suggests. Removed Matrix from the list of dependencies, as it is not used (in recent versions?).
several other changes, not visible to the user.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("StableEstim", 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("GeoBosh/StableEstim")

Development version from GeoBosh/StableEstim. 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-stableestim

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-StableEstim

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-StableEstim

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: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-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 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.4

READMEYes · 210 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 32 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%18 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 64%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 89%
Help pages citing references: 31% with a bibliography file

How these are measured

Downloads

7.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,238 · ~21/day · ~646/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

46530 days

1.1K90 days

7.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on111 r2u4 autocran42 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

geobosh/stableestim ↗Account: GeoBosh

0Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

24Commits

2Commit identities

rstable-distributioncharacteristic-functionsestimationsimulationr-package

24 commits · Last activity 2025-12-09

Responsiveness

not measured

Forks over time

2022-12-30 · 12026-08-17 · 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/geobosh/stableestim on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-12-12 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-12-12

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing StableEstim adds 8 packages (3 with compiled code, 4.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: timeSeries 1.4 MB, rbibutils 1.1 MB, fBasics 917 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10.0

Imports (9)

statsutilsgraphicsnumDeriv fBasicsMASSmethodsstabledist Rdpack

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat xtable

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

TempStable deforestable

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Georgi N. Boshnakov

Author, Maintainer since 2.1 (2016)

Tarak Kharrat

Author

Previously maintained by Tarak Kharrat (1.0 to 2.0).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Boshnakov

no longer listed · 2.2 to 2.4

Releases (6)

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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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2016-05-02
check problems were not corrected despite reminders

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Package metadata

First published: 2014-01-22
Total releases: 6 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10.0
Download size: 90 KB

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Boshnakov, G. N., & Kharrat, T. (2025). StableEstim: Estimate the Four Parameters of Stable Laws using Different Methods (Version 2.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.StableEstim

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for StableEstim version 2.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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