R Observatory: Metrics for itmsa version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

itmsa

0.1.0Package record

Information-Theoretic Measures for Spatial Association

0packages dependsuggested by 1

2.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Wenbo LvCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Leveraging information-theoretic measures like mutual information and v-measure to quantify spatial associations between patterns (Nowosad and Stepinski (2018) doi:10.1080/13658816.2018.1511794; Bai, H. et al. (2023) doi:10.1080/24694452.2023.2223700).

Changes in 0.1.0

Initial CRAN submission.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("itmsa", 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/itmsa")

Development version from stscl/itmsa. 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-itmsa

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-itmsa

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-itmsa

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: 3.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 62 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · staticNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

icm HTML
vm HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,179 · ~7/day · ~212/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

26130 days

68590 days

2.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on341 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

stscl/itmsa ↗Organization: stscl

13Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

75Commits

1Commit identities

75 commits · Last activity 2026-03-29 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.2.0, ahead of CRAN 0.1.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

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: 0

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 112026-08-20 · 13

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/stscl/itmsa on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-03-29 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-03-29

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing itmsa adds 35 packages (27 with compiled code, 38 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, spdep 4.5 MB, sp 4.3 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (4)

dplyr purrr sdsfun sf

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppThread

Suggests (6)

knitr Rcpp RcppThread readr rmarkdown tibble

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

gdverse

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Wenbo Lv

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.0Latest
record
2024-12-23 · current release
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-12-23
Total releases: 1 / 2 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 87 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("itmsa")

Format

Lv, W. (2024). itmsa: Information-Theoretic Measures for Spatial Association (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.itmsa

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 itmsa version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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