R Observatory: Metrics for gld version 2.6.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gld

2.6.8Package record

Estimation and Use of the Generalised (Tukey) Lambda Distribution

7packages dependsuggested by 2

585.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Robert KingCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The generalised lambda distribution, or Tukey lambda distribution, provides a wide variety of shapes with one functional form. This package provides random numbers, quantiles, probabilities, densities and density quantiles for four different types of the distribution, the FKML (Freimer et al 1988), RS (Ramberg and Schmeiser 1974), GPD (van Staden and Loots 2009) and FM5 - see documentation for details. It provides the density function, distribution function, and Quantile-Quantile plots. It implements a variety of estimation methods for the distribution, including diagnostic plots. Estimation methods include the starship (all 4 types), method of L-Moments for the GPD and FKML types, and a number of methods for only the FKML type. These include maximum likelihood, maximum product of spacings, Titterington's method, Moments, Trimmed L-Moments and Distributional Least Absolutes.

Changes in 2.6.8

Documentation URL update
plot.starship and plot.GldGPDFit now include pdf over histogram plot

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("gld", 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("newystats/gld")

Development version from newystats/gld. 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-gld

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-gld

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-gld

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: 2.4 min · r-devel-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 2.6.8

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.6.8Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 17
Examples that run: 100%15 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 94%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 88%
Help pages citing references: 88%

How these are measured

Downloads

585.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #534 · ~1.6K/day · ~48.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

49.2K30 days

131.8K90 days

585.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on8.9K r2u9 autocran71.3K conda_forge404 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

newystats/gld ↗Account: newystats

2Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

3Open PRs

0Releases

174Commits

2Commit identities

174 commits · Last activity 2026-09-09 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.6.9, ahead of CRAN 2.6.8 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 554
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2023-11-02 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/newystats/gld on 2026-10-11.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gld adds 3 packages (3 with compiled code, 720 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: lmom 339 KB, e1071 311 KB, proxy 70 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

statsgraphicse1071 lmom

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

7direct

122indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 6

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

DescTools PairedData hmix xpect rquest metaquant MADtests

Suggests, most downloaded first

glmx fitteR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Robert King

Author, Maintainer since at least 0.4 (2001)

Benjamin Dean

Author · added in 2.3.2

Sigbert Klinke

Author · added in 2.2.1

Paul van Staden

Author · added in 2.4.2

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Ben Dean

no longer listed · 2.2 to 2.2.1

Releases (41)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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BetaLambdaLambda
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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plot.starship

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fit.fkml.moments.val, gld.moments
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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dgl, dqgl, gl.check.lambda, pgl, plotglc, plotgld, plot.starship, print.starship, qdgl, qgl, qqgl, rgl, starship, starship.adaptivegrid, starship.obj, summary.starship
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Package metadata

First published: 2000-11-02
Total releases: 41 / 26 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 53 KB

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King, R., Dean, B., Klinke, S., & van Staden, P. (2025). gld: Estimation and Use of the Generalised (Tukey) Lambda Distribution (Version 2.6.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gld

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gld version 2.6.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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