R Observatory: Metrics for libstable4u version 1.0.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

libstable4u

1.0.5Package record

Stable Distribution Functions...For You

2packages dependsuggested by 1

29.7Kdownloads / year

23.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Bruce SwihartCRAN page ↗

Tools for fast and accurate evaluation of skew stable distributions (CDF, PDF and quantile functions), random number generation, and parameter estimation. This is 'libstableR' as per Royuela del Val, Simmross-Wattenberg, and Alberola López (2017) doi:10.18637/jss.v078.i01 under a new maintainer.

Changes in 1.0.5

Fixed stable_rnd.c source

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From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("libstable4u", 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-libstable4u

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-libstable4u

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-libstable4u

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: 2.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR12 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18

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NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.5

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.5Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 5includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 80%

Also includes 1 demo script (run with demo())

How these are measured

Downloads

29.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,761 · ~81/day · ~2.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.9K30 days

5.4K90 days

29.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on404 r2u2 autocran25 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing libstable4u adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 2.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppGSL 364 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppGSL

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

mvpd MixStable

Suggests, most downloaded first

stabledist

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Bruce Swihart

Contributor, Maintainer since 1.0.2 (2023)

Several bugs fixed and added macOS compatibility

Carlos Alberola López

Author

Javier Royuela del Val

Author

Federico Simmross-Wattenberg

Author

Bob Rudis

Contributor

Several bugs fixed and added macOS compatibility

Releases (4)

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Package metadata

First published: 2023-08-14
Total releases: 4 / 3 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 57 KB

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Probability Distributions

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("libstable4u")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.18637/jss.v078.i01.

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 libstable4u version 1.0.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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