R Observatory: Metrics for latentcor version 2.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

latentcor

2.0.2Package record

Fast Computation of Latent Correlations for Mixed Data

1packages dependsuggested by 1

11.8Kdownloads / year

52.9%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Irina GaynanovaCRAN page ↗

The first stand-alone R package for computation of latent correlation that takes into account all variable types (continuous/binary/ordinal/zero-inflated), comes with an optimized memory footprint, and is computationally efficient, essentially making latent correlation estimation almost as fast as rank-based correlation estimation. The estimation is based on latent copula Gaussian models. For continuous/binary types, see Fan, J., Liu, H., Ning, Y., and Zou, H. (2017). For ternary type, see Quan X., Booth J.G. and Wells M.T. (2018) doi:10.48550/arXiv.1809.06255. For truncated type or zero-inflated type, see Yoon G., Carroll R.J. and Gaynanova I. (2020) doi:10.1093/biomet/asaa007. For approximation method of computation, see Yoon G., Müller C.L. and Gaynanova I. (2021) doi:10.1080/10618600.2021.1882468. The latter method uses multi-linear interpolation originally implemented in the R package https://cran.r-project.org/package=chebpol.

Install

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

install.packages("latentcor", 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-latentcor

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-latentcor

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-latentcor

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTERd contentsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Rd files without \usage:
  ‘interpolant.Rd’
\arguments should not be documented without \usage.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-11
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-04-10
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-09

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OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.0.2

READMEYes · 491 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · does not mention 2.0.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 9 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 80%4 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 71%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 22%

Vignettes (2)

latentcor HTML
Mathematical Framework for latentcor HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

11.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,681 · ~32/day · ~986/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1K30 days

2.6K90 days

11.8K1 year

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Also on520 r2u7 autocran2.5K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing latentcor adds 115 packages (55 with compiled code, 96 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (16)

statspcaPP fMultivar mnormtMatrixMASSheatmaply ggplot2 plotlygraphicsgeometry doFuture foreach future doRNG microbenchmark

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

rmarkdown markdown knitr testthatlatticecubature plot3D covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

mixedCCA

Suggests, most downloaded first

forestsearch

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Irina Gaynanova

Author, Maintainer since 2.0.2 (2025)

Mingze Huang

Author

Christian Müller

Author

Grace Yoon

Author

Previously maintained by Mingze Huang (1.0.0 to 2.0.1).

Releases (7)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.0.2Latest
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2025-11-26 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.0.1
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2022-09-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
r_ml_wrapper
2.0.0
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2022-08-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
evaluation, interpolation, ipol
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-06-07
1.2.1
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2022-06-07 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-05-07
requires archived package 'chebpol'
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.2.0
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2021-10-31 · diff ↗
1.1.0
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2021-10-04 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
GenData, estR

added 3 exports
gen_data, get_types, latentcor
1.0.0
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2021-08-26
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-08-26
Total releases: 7 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 2.9 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("latentcor")

Format

Gaynanova, I., Huang, M., Müller, C., & Yoon, G. (2025). latentcor: Fast Computation of Latent Correlations for Mixed Data (Version 2.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.latentcor

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for latentcor version 2.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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