R Observatory: Metrics for bestNormalize version 1.9.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bestNormalize

1.9.2Package record

Normalizing Transformation Functions

6packages dependsuggested by 2

71.1Kdownloads / year

89.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ryan A PetersonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗

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. 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-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). 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: 4.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-30
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-28
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.9.2

READMEYes · 455 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 1.9.2Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites an R Journal article

Help pages: 19 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 93%13 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 88%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 94%
Help pages citing references: 26%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

71.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,690 · ~195/day · ~5.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4.5K30 days

13K90 days

71.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on595 r2u16 autocran1.9K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

petersonr/bestnormalize ↗Account: petersonR

43Stars

7Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

16Releases

192Commits

5Commit identities

192 commits · Last activity 2026-06-04 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.9.3, ahead of CRAN 1.9.2 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 5
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-08-04 · 412026-07-07 · 43

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/petersonr/bestnormalize on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (3)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2023-03-21 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bestNormalize adds 71 packages (33 with compiled code, 47 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (13)

LambertW nortest dplyr doParallel foreach doRNG recipes tibblemethodsbutcher purrr progress generics

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

knitr rmarkdownMASStestthatmgcvparallelggplot2 scales rlang covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

0indirect

Imports 6

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

rfriend AssumpSure RESIDE FESta LongDat phytoclass

Suggests, most downloaded first

mlr3pipelines designit

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Ryan A Peterson

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.9.2

Maintainer since 0.2.2 (2017)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Ryan Andrew Peterson

no longer listed · 0.2.2 to 1.9.1

Releases (20)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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added 1 export
bestLogConstant
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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double_reverse_log, required_pkgs
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2021-03-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
center_scale, step_bestNormalize_new, step_best_normalize
1.6.1
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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step_bestNormalize, step_orderNorm
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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no_transform
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2018-05-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
arcsinh_x, exp_x, log_x, sqrt_x
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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0.2.2
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2017-11-14
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

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

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("bestNormalize")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.32614/rj-2021-041, 10.1080/02664763.2019.1630372.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for bestNormalize version 1.9.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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