R Observatory: Metrics for famish version 0.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

famish

0.2.1Package record

Flexibly Tune Families of Probability Distributions

1packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

90.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Vincenzo CoiaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗

Fits probability distributions to data and plugs into the 'probaverse' suite of R packages so distribution objects are ready for further manipulation and evaluation. Supports methods such as maximum likelihood and L-moments, and provides diagnostics including empirical ranking and quantile score.

Changes in 0.2.1

Fixed fit_dst("lp3", ..., method = "lmom-log") to preserve the sign of the fitted log-skew, allowing a negative skew on the log scale.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("famish", 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("probaverse/famish")

Development version from probaverse/famish. 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-famish

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-famish

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-famish

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.1

READMEYes · 701 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 5 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 60%

Vignettes (1)

fitting HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,294 · ~7/day · ~220/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33130 days

94590 days

2.6K1 year

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Also on71 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

probaverse/famish ↗Organization: probaverse

0Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

rr-packagerstats

Last activity 2026-06-05

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/probaverse/famish on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-05 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing famish adds 13 packages (7 with compiled code, 6.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: fitdistrplus 2.4 MB, distionary 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (8)

checkmate distionary fitdistrplus ismev lmom rlangstatsvctrs

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

probaverse

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Vincenzo Coia

Releases (2)

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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-12-08
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 1.7 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("famish")

Format

Coia, V. (2026). famish: Flexibly Tune Families of Probability Distributions (Version 0.2.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.famish

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 famish version 0.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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