R Observatory: Metrics for bestNormalize version 1.9.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bestNormalize

1.9.2

Normalizing Transformation Functions

9packages depend

84.1Kdownloads / year

89.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ryan A PetersonFirst published 2017-11-1420 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Estimate a suite of normalizing transformations, including a new adaptation of a technique based on ranks which can guarantee normally distributed transformed data if there are no ties: ordered quantile normalization (ORQ). ORQ normalization combines a rank-mapping approach with a shifted logit approximation that allows the transformation to work on data outside the original domain. It is also able to handle new data within the original domain via linear interpolation. The package is built to estimate the best normalizing transformation for a vector consistently and accurately. It implements the Box-Cox transformation, the Yeo-Johnson transformation, three types of Lambert WxF transformations, and the ordered quantile normalization transformation. It estimates the normalization efficacy of other commonly used transformations, and it allows users to specify custom transformations or normalization statistics. Finally, functionality can be integrated into a machine learning workflow via recipes.

Install

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

install.packages("bestNormalize", 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("petersonR/bestNormalize")

Development version from petersonR/bestNormalize. 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-bestnormalize

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-bestNormalize

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-bestNormalize

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.67

89.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

13

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMEYes · 455 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 93%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 94%
References docs: 26%

Downloads

84.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,607 · ~230/day · ~7K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ petersonr/bestnormalize

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16Releases

192Commits

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192 commits · Last activity 2026-06-04 · 0% stars, 30d

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (13)

LambertW nortest dplyr doParallel foreach doRNG recipes tibblemethodsbutcher purrr progress generics

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Maintainer (1)

Ryan A Peterson

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.9.2

Authors (1)

Ryan A Peterson

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.9.2

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Ryan Andrew Peterson

no longer listed · 0.2.2 to 1.9.1

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-14
Total releases: 20 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Bundled data: 158 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.1 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Peterson, R. A. (2025). bestNormalize: Normalizing Transformation Functions (Version 1.9.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bestNormalize

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