R Observatory: Metrics for binequality version 1.0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

binequality

1.0.4

Methods for Analyzing Binned Income Data

0packages depend

3.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Samuel V. ScarpinoFirst published 2014-09-155 releasesCRAN page ↗

Methods for model selection, model averaging, and calculating metrics, such as the Gini, Theil, Mean Log Deviation, etc, on binned income data where the topmost bin is right-censored. We provide both a non-parametric method, termed the bounded midpoint estimator (BME), which assigns cases to their bin midpoints; except for the censored bins, where cases are assigned to an income estimated by fitting a Pareto distribution. Because the usual Pareto estimate can be inaccurate or undefined, especially in small samples, we implement a bounded Pareto estimate that yields much better results. We also provide a parametric approach, which fits distributions from the generalized beta (GB) family. Because some GB distributions can have poor fit or undefined estimates, we fit 10 GB-family distributions and use multimodel inference to obtain definite estimates from the best-fitting distributions. We also provide binned income data from all United States of America school districts, counties, and states.

Install

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

install.packages("binequality", 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-binequality

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-binequality

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-binequality

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

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

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-06-09
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
11 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 52%

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,910 · ~9/day · ~274/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

21630 days

83090 days

3.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on200 r2u45 autocran

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (4)

R >= 2.10gamlss gamlss.cens gamlss.dist

Imports (2)

survivalineq

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (0)

Author records are not tracked yet for this package.

Listed in earlier versions (3)

Paul von Hippel

no longer listed · 0.6.1 to 1.0.4

and Igor Holas

no longer listed · 0.6.1 to 1.0.4

Samuel V. Scarpino

no longer listed · 0.6.1 to 1.0.4

Package Timeline

5 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.0.4Latest
2018-11-05 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.0.3
2018-02-18 · diff ↗
1.0.2
2017-07-09 · diff ↗
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.0.1
2016-12-17 · diff ↗
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Show 2 earlier events

0.6.1
2014-09-15
R
R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-09-15
Total releases: 5 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3.0)
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 2.3 MB / 4 files
Download size: 2.3 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("binequality")

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 binequality version 1.0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-08-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

Report a problem with this page →