R Observatory: Metrics for infoxtr version 0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

infoxtr

0.2

Information-Theoretic Measures for Revealing Variable Interactions

4packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Wenbo LyuFirst published 2026-03-192 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Implements information-theoretic measures to explore variable interactions, including KSG mutual information estimation for continuous variables from Kraskov et al. (2004) doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.69.066138, knockoff conditional mutual information described in Zhang & Chen (2025) doi:10.1126/sciadv.adu6464, synergistic-unique-redundant decomposition introduced by Martinez-Sanchez et al. (2024) doi:10.1038/s41467-024-53373-4, allowing detection of complex and diverse relationships among variables.

Install

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

install.packages("infoxtr", 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("stscl/infoxtr")

Development version from stscl/infoxtr. 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-infoxtr

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-infoxtr

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-infoxtr

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 7.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
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OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-22
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 1 earlier snapshots

NOTE2026-03-20
3 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 190 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 33%

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,649 · ~7/day · ~206/mo

Releases R versions

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19830 days

1.1K90 days

2.5K1 year

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Also on173 r2u

Repository

GitHub ↗ stscl/infoxtr

53Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

1,038Commits

1Contributors

bioinformaticscausal-discoverycausality-analysiscppdata-drivengeoinformaticsinformaticsinformation-theory

1,038 commits · Last activity 2026-08-15

PRs over time

2026-07-14 · 02026-08-15 · 0

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/stscl/infoxtr on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (4)

methodssdsfun sf terra

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppThread

Suggests (7)

knitr Rcpp RcppThread readr rmarkdown spEDM tEDM

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

coupling geocomplexity infocausality pc

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Wenbo Lyu

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Wenbo Lyu

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (1)

Wenbo Lyu

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

2 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2Latest
2026-03-30 · current release · diff ↗
0.1
2026-03-19
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-19
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("infoxtr")

Format

Lyu, W. (2026). infoxtr: Information-Theoretic Measures for Revealing Variable Interactions (Version 0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.infoxtr

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for infoxtr version 0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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