R Observatory: Metrics for desirability version 2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

desirability

2.1

Function Optimization and Ranking via Desirability Functions

1packages depend

8.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Max KuhnFirst published 2007-04-268 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

S3 classes for multivariate optimization using the desirability function by Derringer and Suich (1980).

Install

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

install.packages("desirability", 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("topepo/desirability")

Development version from topepo/desirability. 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-desirability

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-desirability

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-desirability

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: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

8.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,213 · ~23/day · ~704/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ topepo/desirability

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12Commits

3Contributors

License GPL-2.0 · 12 commits · Last activity 2016-09-22

Stars over time

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Repository practices

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Checks run against github.com/topepo/desirability on 2026-08-16.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

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Max Kuhn

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Package metadata

First published: 2007-04-26
Total releases: 8 / 19 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 285 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Design of Experiments (DoE) & Analysis of Experimental Data Optimization and Mathematical Programming

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for desirability version 2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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