ksm

1.1

Kernel Density Estimation for Random Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices

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Overview

About

Maintained by Leo BelzileFirst published 2025-10-282 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Kernel smoothing for Wishart random matrices described in Daayeb, Khardani and Ouimet (2025) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2506.08816, Gaussian and log-Gaussian models using least square or likelihood cross validation criteria for optimal bandwidth selection.

Install

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

install.packages("ksm", 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("lbelzile/ksm")

Development version from lbelzile/ksm. 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-ksm

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

# 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-ksm

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-22
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Repository

GitHub ↗ lbelzile/ksm

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Last activity 2026-06-06

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7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 2.10

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Rcpp

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Leo Belzile

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Leo Belzile

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Frederic Ouimet

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Package Timeline

2 releases. R releases are shown for context.

1.1Latest
2026-06-07 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0
2026-03-10
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-10-28
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 37 KB
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