R Observatory: Metrics for infotheo version 1.2.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

infotheo

1.2.0.1Package record

Information-Theoretic Measures

18packages dependsuggested by 5

63.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

9/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Patrick E. MeyerCRAN page ↗Website ↗

Implements various measures of information theory based on several entropy estimators.

Install

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

install.packages("infotheo", 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-infotheo

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-infotheo

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-infotheo

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

4NOTE9OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Patrick E. Meyer <software@meyerp.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = c("Patrick", "E."),
                    family = "Meyer",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "software@meyerp.com")
as necessary.

NOTEcompiled coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

File ‘infotheo/libs/infotheo.so’:
  Found no calls to: ‘R_registerRoutines’, ‘R_useDynamicSymbols’

It is good practice to register native routines and to disable symbol
search.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE9 OK, 4 NOTENow
NOTE10 OK, 4 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.0.1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 9
Examples that run: 100%8 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 89%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 89%

How these are measured

Downloads

63.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,406 · ~173/day · ~5.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4.6K30 days

19.2K90 days

63.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.1K r2u4 autocran6.2K conda_forge36 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing infotheo adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

18direct

3indirect

Depends 2 · Imports 16

Suggested by 5

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

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WGCNA ggEDA FunChisq moderncor RcppColMetric

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Patrick E. Meyer

Maintainer since 1.0.0

Releases (7)

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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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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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
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Package metadata

First published: 2009-06-25
Total releases: 7 / 17 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 8.1 KB

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citation("infotheo")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for infotheo version 1.2.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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