R Observatory: Metrics for kSamples version 1.2-12

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

kSamples

1.2-12Package record

K-Sample Rank Tests and their Combinations

10packages dependsuggested by 2

188.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Fritz ScholzCRAN page ↗

Compares k samples using the Anderson-Darling test, Kruskal-Wallis type tests with different rank score criteria, Steel's multiple comparison test, and the Jonckheere-Terpstra (JT) test. It computes asymptotic, simulated or (limited) exact P-values, all valid under randomization, with or without ties, or conditionally under random sampling from populations, given the observed tie pattern. Except for Steel's test and the JT test it also combines these tests across several blocks of samples. Also analyzed are 2 x t contingency tables and their blocked combinations using the Kruskal-Wallis criterion. Steel's test is inverted to provide simultaneous confidence bounds for shift parameters. A plotting function compares tail probabilities obtained under asymptotic approximation with those obtained via simulation or exact calculations.

Install

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

install.packages("kSamples", 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-ksamples

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-kSamples

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-kSamples

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  kSamples/R/ad.pval.R (.Dim: 2, .Dimnames: 2)
'.Dim' should be changed to 'dim'.
'.Dimnames' should be changed to 'dimnames'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.2-12

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · does not mention 1.2-12Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 15includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%14 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 92%
Help pages citing references: 73%

How these are measured

Downloads

188.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,113 · ~516/day · ~15.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

11.2K30 days

32.5K90 days

188.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.9K r2u7 autocran7.6K conda_forge222 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing kSamples adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 137 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: SuppDists 137 KB.

Depends (1)

SuppDists

Imports (3)

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LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

10direct

32indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 9

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How these are counted

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (2)

Fritz Scholz

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2012)

Angie Zhu

Author

Releases (11)

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-08-31
Total releases: 11 / 14 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Bundled data: 1.9 KB / 1 file
Download size: 74 KB

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citation("kSamples")

Format

Scholz, F., & Zhu, A. (2025). kSamples: K-Sample Rank Tests and their Combinations (Version 1.2-12) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.kSamples

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for kSamples version 1.2-12 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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