R Observatory: Metrics for multivariance version 2.4.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

multivariance

2.4.1Package record

Measuring Multivariate Dependence Using Distance Multivariance

0packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

70.3%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Björn BöttcherCRAN page ↗

Distance multivariance is a measure of dependence which can be used to detect and quantify dependence of arbitrarily many random vectors. The necessary functions are implemented in this packages and examples are given. It includes: distance multivariance, distance multicorrelation, dependence structure detection, tests of independence and copula versions of distance multivariance based on the Monte Carlo empirical transform. Detailed references are given in the package description, as starting point for the theoretic background we refer to: B. Böttcher, Dependence and Dependence Structures: Estimation and Visualization Using the Unifying Concept of Distance Multivariance. Open Statistics, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2020), doi:10.1515/stat-2020-0001.

Changes in 2.4.1

Updates

accommodate changes of the required package 'Rcpp'

New Features

'emp.transf' has now the option "continuous". If TRUE it provides the classical (non-Monte-Carlo) transformation by the empirical distribution function, which is a reasonable choice for data of continuous distributions.

From inst/NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("multivariance", 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-multivariance

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-multivariance

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-multivariance

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:
  multivariance/R/multivariance-functions.R (.Dim: 2)
'.Dim' should be changed to 'dim'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.4.1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.4.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 67 (30 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 79%22 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 5 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 43%
Help pages citing references: 33% with a bibliography file

How these are measured

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,023 · ~9/day · ~264/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

29130 days

88190 days

3.2K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing multivariance adds 11 packages (8 with compiled code, 9.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: igraph 4.8 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (5)

igraphgraphicsstatsRcpp microbenchmark

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Björn Böttcher

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.5 (2017)

Martin Keller-Ressel

Contributor

Releases (10)

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2019-02-06 · diff ↗ ·
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fastEuclideanCdm, multivariance.test, multivariance.timing
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1.2.0
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2018-09-13 · diff ↗ ·
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fastdist, pearson.pvalue, pearson.qf, sample.cdms

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-02
Total releases: 10 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Bundled data: 42 KB / 5 files
Download size: 121 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("multivariance")

Format

Böttcher, B., & Keller-Ressel, M. (2021). multivariance: Measuring Multivariate Dependence Using Distance Multivariance (Version 2.4.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.multivariance

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for multivariance version 2.4.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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