R Observatory: Metrics for Upsilon version 0.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Upsilon

0.1.1

Another Test of Association for Count Data

0packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

46.1%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Joe SongFirst published 2026-01-062 releasesCRAN page ↗

The Upsilon test assesses association among categorical variables against the null hypothesis of independence (Luo 2021 MS thesis; ProQuest Publication No. 28649813). While promoting dominant function patterns, it demotes non-dominant function patterns. It is robust to low expected count---continuity correction like Yates's seems unnecessary. Using a common null population following a uniform distribution, contingency tables are comparable by statistical significance---not the case for most association tests defining a varying null population by tensor product of observed marginals. Although Pearson's chi-squared test, Fisher's exact test, and Woolf's G-test (related to mutual information) are useful in some contexts, the Upsilon test appeals to ranking association patterns not necessarily following same marginal distributions, such as in count data from DNA and RNA sequencing---a rapidly expanding frontier in modern science.

Install

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

install.packages("Upsilon", 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-upsilon

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-Upsilon

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-Upsilon

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.08

46.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
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NOTE2026-08-01
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OK2026-04-22
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 67%

Downloads

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Rank #10,188 · ~9/day · ~263/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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none

Imports (3)

Rcpp Rdpack ggplot2

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Rcpp

Suggests (8)

knitr rmarkdown testthat DescTools USP metan FunChisq patchwork

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Joe Song

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Joe Song

Author, Maintainer

Xuye Luo

Author

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-06
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: LGPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 482 KB
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With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Song, J., & Luo, X. (2026). Upsilon: Another Test of Association for Count Data (Version 0.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.Upsilon

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Upsilon version 0.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-13. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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