R Observatory: Metrics for StockDistFit version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

StockDistFit

1.0.0Package record

Fit Stock Price Distributions

0packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Brian NjugunaCRAN page ↗

The 'StockDistFit' package provides functions for fitting probability distributions to stock price data. The package uses maximum likelihood estimation to find the best-fitting distribution for a given stock. It also offers a function to fit several distributions to one or more assets and compare the distribution with the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) and then pick the best distribution. References are as follows: Siew et al. (2008) https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jappstat/37/1/37_1_1/_pdf/-char/ja and Benth et al. (2008) https://books.google.co.ke/books?hl=en&lr=&id=MHNpDQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=Stochastic+modeling+of+commodity+prices+using+the+Variance+Gamma+(VG)+model.+&ots=YNIL2QmEYg&sig=XZtGU0lp4oqXHVyPZ-O8x5i7N3w&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false.

Install

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

install.packages("StockDistFit", 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-stockdistfit

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-StockDistFit

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-StockDistFit

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTEDESCRIPTION meta-informationr-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, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

r-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-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    ‘Functions.R’

r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    'Functions.R'

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTENow
NOTE3 OK, 11 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

READMEYes · 126 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 25
Examples that run: 100%25 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 16%

Vignettes (1)

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How these are measured

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,239 · ~7/day · ~210/mo

Releases R versions

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22930 days

65990 days

2.5K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing StockDistFit adds 35 packages (20 with compiled code, 17 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: fitdistrplus 2.4 MB, timeSeries 1.4 MB, rbibutils 1.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (11)

dplyr fGarch fBasics fitdistrplus xtsstatsmagrittr zoo quantmodutilsghyp

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

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People & History

People (2)

Brian Njuguna

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2023)

Stanely Sayianka

Contributor

Releases (1)

R
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 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.0Latest
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2023-05-09 · current release
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-05-09
Total releases: 1 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 1.0 MB / 9 files
Download size: 1.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("StockDistFit")

Format

Njuguna, B., & Sayianka, S. (2023). StockDistFit: Fit Stock Price Distributions (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.StockDistFit

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 StockDistFit version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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