R Observatory: Metrics for TruncatedNormal version 2.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

TruncatedNormal

2.3Package record

Truncated Multivariate Normal and Student Distributions

16packages dependsuggested by 5

71.1Kdownloads / year

63.9%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Leo BelzileCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A collection of functions to deal with the truncated univariate and multivariate normal and Student distributions, described in Botev (2017) doi:10.1111/rssb.12162 and Botev and L'Ecuyer (2015) doi:10.1109/WSC.2015.7408180.

Changes in 2.3

Bug fixes

rtnorm now checks arguments length and throw an error rather than try to recycle mean and standard deviation vectors (issue #6).
rtnorm recycles arguments when ltrunc or rtrunc are length 1.
*tmvt and *tmvnorm now check that the scale matrix sigma is symmetric, positive-definite and non-degenerate (issue #8) by default.
rmvnorm returns a vector rather than an 1 by n matrix for the unidimensional setting.
Degrees of freedom larger than 350 are not treated as infinite, as the code suffers from overflow and returns missing values otherwise.

Changes

The package uses tinytest rather than testthat for unit tests.
Since scrambling is disabled in randtoolbox (throwing warning messages), the package now relies on the qrng package and the Owen scrambling method from spacefillr package for quasi Monte Carlo.
Added alias in package documentation, as requested by Kurt Hornik.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("TruncatedNormal", 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("lbelzile/TruncatedNormal")

Development version from lbelzile/TruncatedNormal. 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-truncatednormal

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-TruncatedNormal

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-TruncatedNormal

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTERd contentsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Rd files without \usage:
  ‘tmvnorm.Rd’ ‘tmvt.Rd’ ‘tnorm.Rd’
\arguments should not be documented without \usage.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 6.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-09-08
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-11
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18

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OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.3

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.3Citation fileNo

Help pages: 32 (22 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 93%13 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 42%
Documented parameters: 80%
Return-value docs: 62%
Help pages citing references: 56%

Vignettes (1)

TruncatedNormal HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

71.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,328 · ~195/day · ~5.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

8.1K30 days

21.8K90 days

71.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.2K r2u4 autocran79 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

lbelzile/truncatednormal ↗Account: lbelzile

11Stars

4Forks

5Open issues

2Open PRs

4Releases

95Commits

4Commit identities

truncatedgaussianstudent-distributions

95 commits · Last activity 2026-09-07 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.3.0002, ahead of CRAN 2.3 (checked 2026-10-25)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 67%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 14

Stars over time

2025-07-12 · 92026-07-28 · 11

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/lbelzile/truncatednormal on 2026-10-25.

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-07

CRAN release process (1)

CRAN-SUBMISSION

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing TruncatedNormal adds 7 packages (5 with compiled code, 6.4 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: spacefillr 3.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppArmadillo 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (5)

nleqslv qrng spacefillr alabama Rcpp

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown mvtnorm carData tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

16direct

4indirect

Imports 16

Suggested by 5

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

HonestDiD cSEM PricingBandits mastif cgaim cirls Compositionalzerocens bpvars SMNlmec gctsc mig VeccTMVN nntmvn GPCsign ARCHISSUR ScaleSpikeSlab

Suggests, most downloaded first

mev anMC fixes hdtg countSTAR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Leo Belzile

Author, Maintainer since 2.0 (2019) · added in 2.0

Zdravko Botev

Author · added in 2.0

Previously maintained by Zdravko Botev (1.0).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Zdravko I. Botev

no longer listed · 1.0

Releases (7)

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added 26 exports
.cholpermGB, .cholpermGGE, .dmvnorm_arma, .dmvt_arma, Phinv, cholperm, dtmvnorm, dtmvt, lnNpr, mvNcdf, mvNqmc, mvTcdf, mvTqmc, mvrandn, mvrandt, norminvp, pmvnorm, pmvt, ptmvnorm, ptmvt, qtnorm, rtmvnorm, rtmvt, rtnorm, trandn, tregress
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Package metadata

First published: 2015-11-10
Total releases: 7 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 5.9 KB / 2 files
Download size: 131 KB

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citation("TruncatedNormal")

Format

Belzile, L., & Botev, Z. (2024). TruncatedNormal: Truncated Multivariate Normal and Student Distributions (Version 2.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.TruncatedNormal

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for TruncatedNormal version 2.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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