R Observatory: Metrics for ald version 1.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ald

1.3.1

The Asymmetric Laplace Distribution

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6.3Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Christian E. GalarzaFirst published 2015-01-284 releasesCRAN page ↗

It provides the density, distribution function, quantile function, random number generator, likelihood function, moments and Maximum Likelihood estimators for a given sample, all this for the three parameter Asymmetric Laplace Distribution defined in Koenker and Machado (1999). This is a special case of the skewed family of distributions available in Galarza et.al. (2017) doi:10.1002/sta4.140 useful for quantile regression.

Install

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

install.packages("ald", 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-ald

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-ald

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-ald

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

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NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 50 s · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

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Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

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Documentation

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Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 100%

Downloads

6.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,823 · ~17/day · ~523/mo

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Listed in earlier versions (2)

Christian E. Galarza

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.3.1

Victor H. Lachos

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.3.1

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-01-28
Total releases: 4 / 11 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 5.7 KB
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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ald version 1.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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