R Observatory: Metrics for asymmetry version 2.0.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

asymmetry

2.0.6Package record

Multidimensional Scaling of Asymmetric Proximities

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7.5Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Berrie ZielmanCRAN page ↗

Multidimensional scaling models and methods for the visualization and analysis of asymmetric proximity data. An asymmetric data matrix has the same number of rows and columns, and these rows and columns refer to the same set of objects. At least some elements in the upper-triangle are different from the corresponding elements in the lower triangle. An example of an asymmetric matrix is a student migration table, where the rows correspond to the countries of origin of the students and the columns to the destination countries. This package provides algorithms for three multidimensional scaling models, the slide-vector model, a scaling model with unique dimensions and the asymscal model. Furthermore, some other procedures, such as a heat map for skew-symmetric data, and the decomposition of asymmetry are also provided for the exploratory analysis of asymmetric tables.

Install

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

install.packages("asymmetry", 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

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

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

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

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Slowest check: 3.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-02

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ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-03-10

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Documentation

In release 2.0.6

READMEYes · 28 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 12
Examples that run: 78%7 run in a plain check · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 80%
Help pages citing references: 33%

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Downloads

7.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,822 · ~21/day · ~627/mo

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73630 days

1.7K90 days

7.5K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing asymmetry adds 104 packages (57 with compiled code, 80 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

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Imports (3)

statsmethodssmacof

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Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown RColorBrewer

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People (1)

Berrie Zielman

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2016)

Releases (17)

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2017-10-27 · diff ↗ ·
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decomposition
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skewsymmetry
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2017-07-06 · diff ↗ ·
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mdsunique
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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asymscal
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hmap
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-04-26
Total releases: 17 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Bundled data: 4.5 KB / 4 files
Download size: 111 KB

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Psychometric Models and Methods

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citation("asymmetry")

Format

Zielman, B. (2026). asymmetry: Multidimensional Scaling of Asymmetric Proximities (Version 2.0.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.asymmetry

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for asymmetry version 2.0.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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