R Observatory: Metrics for mnt version 1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mnt

1.4Package record

Affine Invariant Tests of Multivariate Normality

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2.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Bruno EbnerCRAN page ↗

Various affine invariant multivariate normality tests are provided. It is designed to accompany the survey article Ebner, B. and Henze, N. (2020) doi:10.1007/s11749-020-00740-0 titled "Tests for multivariate normality -- a critical review with emphasis on weighted L^2-statistics". We implement new and time honoured L^2-type tests of multivariate normality, such as the Baringhaus-Henze-Epps-Pulley (BHEP) test, the Henze-Zirkler test, the test of Henze-Jiménes-Gamero, the test of Henze-Jiménes-Gamero-Meintanis, the test of Henze-Visage, the Dörr-Ebner-Henze test based on harmonic oscillator and the Dörr-Ebner-Henze test based on a double estimation in a PDE. Secondly, we include the measures of multivariate skewness and kurtosis by Mardia, Koziol, Malkovich and Afifi and Móri, Rohatgi and Székely, as well as the associated tests. Thirdly, we include the tests of multivariate normality by Cox and Small, the 'energy' test of Székely and Rizzo, the tests based on spherical harmonics by Manzotti and Quiroz and the test of Pudelko. All the functions and tests need the data to be a n x d matrix where n is the samplesize (number of rows) and d is the dimension (number of columns).

Changes in 1.4

Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
Added Pearson and Johnson four-moment approximations for BHEP critical values.
Added p-values for all three calibration methods, returned as pvalue.
Monte Carlo remains the default calibration method.
Updated the result printer to display the calibration method and p-value.
Added numerical safeguards for calculating limiting moments and fitting Johnson distributions.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("mnt", 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-mnt

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-mnt

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-mnt

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: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-30
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-08
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.4

READMEYes · 189 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.4Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 45includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 89%33 run in a plain check · 4 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 90%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 87%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,126 · ~8/day · ~243/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33630 days

80890 days

2.9K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mnt adds 5 packages (4 with compiled code, 1.4 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rmpfr 647 KB, pracma 389 KB, gmp 163 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (6)

PearsonDS Rmpfr SuppDistsMASSpracmautils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (4)

Bruno Ebner

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2020)

Lucas Butsch

Author

Johann Siemens

Contributor

Jaco Visagie

Contributor

Releases (4)

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2026-09-25 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2020-07-31 · diff ↗ ·
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2020-04-26 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2020-04-23
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-04-23
Total releases: 4 / 6 yrs
License: CC BY 4.0
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 4.5 KB / 3 files
Download size: 45 KB

Cite

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citation("mnt")

Format

Ebner, B., Butsch, L., Siemens, J., & Visagie, J. (2026). mnt: Affine Invariant Tests of Multivariate Normality (Version 1.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.mnt

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mnt version 1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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