R Observatory: Metrics for frontier version 1.1-8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

frontier

1.1-8

Stochastic Frontier Analysis

4packages depend

16.3Kdownloads / year

87.4%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Arne HenningsenFirst published 2008-10-1626 releasesCRAN page ↗

Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Stochastic Frontier Production and Cost Functions. Two specifications are available: the error components specification with time-varying efficiencies (Battese and Coelli, 1992, doi:10.1007/BF00158774) and a model specification in which the firm effects are directly influenced by a number of variables (Battese and Coelli, 1995, doi:10.1007/BF01205442).

Install

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

install.packages("frontier", 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-frontier

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-frontier

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-frontier

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: 5.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.77

87.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 88%
References docs: 42%

Downloads

16.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,218 · ~45/day · ~1.4K/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (3)

R >= 2.15.0micEcon lmtest

Imports (5)

momentsstatsFormula miscTools plm

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

MCMCpack fdrtool

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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robustSFA sfa metafrontier pgt

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Listed in earlier versions (2)

Tim Coelli

no longer listed · 0.9-4 to 1.1-8

Arne Henningsen

no longer listed · 0.9-4 to 1.1-8

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Package metadata

First published: 2008-10-16
Total releases: 26 / 18 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.15.0
Bundled data: 19 KB / 3 files
Download size: 100 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for frontier version 1.1-8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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