R Observatory: Metrics for covsim version 1.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

covsim

1.1.0

VITA, IG and PLSIM Simulation for Given Covariance and Marginals

1packages depend

3.4Kdownloads / year

29.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Njaal FoldnesFirst published 2020-05-125 releasesCRAN page ↗

Random sampling from distributions with user-specified population covariance matrix. Marginal information may be fully specified, for which the package implements the VITA (VIne-To-Anything) algorithm Grønneberg and Foldnes (2017) doi:10.1007/s11336-017-9569-6. See also Grønneberg, Foldnes and Marcoulides (2022) doi:10.18637/jss.v102.i03. Alternatively, marginal skewness and kurtosis may be specified, for which the package implements the IG (independent generator) and PLSIM (piecewise linear) algorithms, see Foldnes and Olsson (2016) doi:10.1080/00273171.2015.1133274 and Foldnes and Grønneberg (2021) doi:10.1080/10705511.2021.1949323, respectively.

Install

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

install.packages("covsim", 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-covsim

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-covsim

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-covsim

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.1 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.07

29.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

8

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 411 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 100%

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,260 · ~9/day · ~287/mo

Releases R versions

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (8)

rvinecopulib lavaan nleqslv PearsonDSMASSstatstmvtnormMatrix

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

rmarkdown knitr R.rsp GGally psych testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

semPower

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Njaal Foldnes

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.2.0

Authors (2)

Njaal Foldnes

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.2.0

Steffen Grønneberg

Author

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Njål Foldnes

no longer listed · 0.1.0

Steffen Groenneberg

no longer listed · 0.2.0 to 0.2.1

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-05-12
Total releases: 5 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 825 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

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citation("covsim")

Format

Foldnes, N., & Grønneberg, S. (2024). covsim: VITA, IG and PLSIM Simulation for Given Covariance and Marginals (Version 1.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.covsim

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for covsim version 1.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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