R Observatory: Metrics for binsmooth version 0.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

binsmooth

0.2.2Package record

Generate PDFs and CDFs from Binned Data

0packages depend

3.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dave HunterCRAN page ↗

Provides several methods for generating density functions based on binned data. Methods include step function, recursive subdivision, and optimized spline. Data are assumed to be nonnegative, the top bin is assumed to have no upper bound, but the bin widths need be equal. All PDF smoothing methods maintain the areas specified by the binned data. (Equivalently, all CDF smoothing methods interpolate the points specified by the binned data.) In practice, an estimate for the mean of the distribution should be supplied as an optional argument. Doing so greatly improves the reliability of statistics computed from the smoothed density functions. Includes methods for estimating the Gini coefficient, the Theil index, percentiles, and random deviates from a smoothed distribution. Among the three methods, the optimized spline (splinebins) is recommended for most purposes. The percentile and random-draw methods should be regarded as experimental, and these methods only support splinebins.

Changes in 0.2.2

Update:

Fixed bug in splinebins warning when median falls in the first bin.

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("binsmooth", 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-binsmooth

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-binsmooth

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-binsmooth

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Dave Hunter <dhunter@westmont.edu>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("David", "J."),
                      family = "Hunter",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "McKalie",
                      family = "Drown",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Dave",
                      family = "Hunter",
                      role = "cre",
                      email = "dhunter@westmont.edu"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-09-08
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.2

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 0.2.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 11
Examples that run: 100%11 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 82%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,274 · ~9/day · ~276/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36930 days

89890 days

3.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on131 r2u30 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing binsmooth adds 3 packages (0 with compiled code, 490 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: pracma 389 KB, triangle 80 KB, ineq 21 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

statspracma ineq triangle

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (2)

David J. Hunter

McKalie Drown

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2016)

Releases (4)

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-08-12
Total releases: 4 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Bundled data: 171 KB / 2 files
Download size: 171 KB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for binsmooth version 0.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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