R Observatory: Metrics for asymmetry.measures version 0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

asymmetry.measures

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Asymmetry Measures for Probability Density Functions

0packages depend

3.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dimitrios BagkavosCRAN page ↗

Provides functions and examples for the weak and strong density asymmetry measures in the articles: "A measure of asymmetry", Patil, Patil and Bagkavos (2012) doi:10.1007/s00362-011-0401-6 and "A measure of asymmetry based on a new necessary and sufficient condition for symmetry", Patil, Bagkavos and Wood (2014) doi:10.1007/s13171-013-0034-z. The measures provided here are useful for quantifying the asymmetry of the shape of a density of a random variable. The package facilitates implementation of the measures which are applicable in a variety of fields including e.g. probability theory, statistics and economics.

Install

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

install.packages("asymmetry.measures", 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-asymmetry.measures

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-asymmetry.measures

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-asymmetry.measures

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: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-30
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.3

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 28
Examples that run: 100%24 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 86%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,482 · ~10/day · ~298/mo

Releases R versions

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37530 days

1K90 days

3.6K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing asymmetry.measures adds 8 packages (4 with compiled code, 3.9 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: gamlss.dist 1.5 MB, quantreg 903 KB, sn 806 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (4)

statssn skewt gamlss.dist

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

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People & History

People (2)

Dimitrios Bagkavos

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2020)

Lucia Gamez

Author

Releases (3)

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-06-22
Total releases: 3 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 1.2 KB / 2 files
Download size: 18 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("asymmetry.measures")

Format

Bagkavos, D., & Gamez, L. (2026). asymmetry.measures: Asymmetry Measures for Probability Density Functions (Version 0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.asymmetry.measures

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 asymmetry.measures version 0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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