R Observatory: Metrics for fBasics version 4052.98

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fBasics

4052.98Package record

Rmetrics - Markets and Basic Statistics

29packages dependsuggested by 6

357.7Kdownloads / year

76.5%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Georgi N. BoshnakovCRAN page ↗Repository ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides a collection of functions to explore and to investigate basic properties of financial returns and related quantities. The covered fields include techniques of explorative data analysis and the investigation of distributional properties, including parameter estimation and hypothesis testing. Even more there are several utility functions for data handling and management.

Changes in 4052.98

removed include directive for R_ext/PrtUtil.h from src/nig.c (R-devel throws warning about it now).
removed other redundant include directives in src/nig.c
removed a superfluous tabular environment from 'plot-qqPlot.Rd' (it was raising a NOTE in recent CRAN checks).
the documentation of several plotting functions (e.g., qqnigPlot) was stating that, besides TRUE or FALSE, argument grid could have values requesting vertical or horizontal grid lines only. But the code doesn't handle this. Fixed the documentation of those functions to reflect this.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("fBasics", 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-fbasics

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-fBasics

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-fBasics

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  fBasics/R/dist-stableFit.R (.Dim: 2, .Names: 1)
  fBasics/R/test-jbALM.R (.Names: 1)
  fBasics/R/test-jbLM.R (.Names: 1)
'.Dim' should be changed to 'dim'.
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK13 OK2026-05-12
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-11
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 4052.98

READMEYes · 142 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 4052.98Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 96 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 88%77 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition) · 2 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 9 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 92%
Documented parameters: 84%
Return-value docs: 79%
Help pages citing references: 39%

How these are measured

Downloads

357.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #698 · ~980/day · ~29.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30.3K30 days

76.2K90 days

357.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on3.1K r2u204 autocran8.9K conda_forge306 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php ↗

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Repository r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing fBasics adds 4 packages (1 with compiled code, 2.3 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: timeSeries 1.4 MB, gss 543 KB, timeDate 359 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.15.1

Imports (11)

timeDate timeSeriesstatsgrDevicesgraphicsmethodsutilsMASSspatialgss stabledist

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

interp RUnittcltk

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

29direct

66indirect

Depends 10 · Imports 19

Suggested by 6

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

stabledist rattle lawstat cati fitteR alphastable

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Georgi N. Boshnakov

Maintainer since 4021.92 (2022), Author

Yohan Chalabi

Author · added in 3011.87

Tobias Setz

Author · added in 3011.87

Diethelm Wuertz

Author

original code

CRAN Team

Contributor · added in 4021.92

Martin Maechler

Contributor · added in 4021.92

Previously maintained by Tobias Setz (3011.87 to 3042.89.2) and Yohan Chalabi (2160.83 to 3010.86).

Listed in earlier versions (16)

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see the SOURCE file

no longer listed · 191.10057 to 2100.78

many others

no longer listed · 191.10057 to 2100.78

fortran/C code from Kersti Aas.

no longer listed · 2110.79 to 2160.81

uses code builtin from the following R contributed packages: gmm from Pierre Chauss