R Observatory: Metrics for mutualinf version 2.0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mutualinf

2.0.4Package record

Computation and Decomposition of the Mutual Information Index

0packages depend

6.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Cristian Angulo-GonzalezCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗Declared funders: FONDECYT/ANID Project 11170583, MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (Project no. PID2019-108576RB-I00) and 1 more

The Mutual Information Index (M) introduced to social science literature by Theil and Finizza (1971) doi:10.1080/0022250X.1971.9989795 is a multigroup segregation measure that is highly decomposable and that according to Frankel and Volij (2011) doi:10.1016/j.jet.2010.10.008 and Mora and Ruiz-Castillo (2011) doi:10.1111/j.1467-9531.2011.01237.x satisfies the Strong Unit Decomposability and Strong Group Decomposability properties. This package allows computing and decomposing the total index value into its "between" and "within" terms. These last terms can also be decomposed into their contributions, either by group or unit characteristics. The factors that produce each "within" term can also be displayed at the user's request. The results can be computed considering a variable or sets of variables that define separate clusters.

Install

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

install.packages("mutualinf", 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("RafaelFuentealbaC/mutualinf")

Development version from RafaelFuentealbaC/mutualinf. 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-mutualinf

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-mutualinf

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-mutualinf

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: 4.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
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 2.0.4

READMEYes · 1,552 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%2 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 33%

How these are measured

Downloads

6.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,606 · ~17/day · ~524/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

41130 days

1.1K90 days

6.3K1 year

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Also on349 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

rafaelfuentealbac/mutualinf ↗Account: RafaelFuentealbaC

3Stars

3Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

102Commits

5Commit identities

102 commits · Last activity 2025-08-07

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-18 · 32026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rafaelfuentealbac/mutualinf on 2026-10-21.

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mutualinf adds 4 packages (4 with compiled code, 9.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppArmadillo 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (5)

Rcpp data.tableparallelrunnerstats

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (0)

none

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 (7)

Cristian Angulo-Gonzalez

Author, Maintainer since 2.0.1 (2025) · added in 2.0.1

Rafael Fuentealba-Chaura

Author

Ricardo Mora

Author

Julio Rojas-Mora

Author

FONDECYT/ANID Project 11170583

Funder · added in 1.0.1

MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (Project no. PID2019-108576RB-I00)

Funder · added in 1.1.2

UCT VIP Project FEQUIP2019-INRN-03

Funder · added in 1.0.1

Previously maintained by Rafael Fuentealba-Chaura (1.0.0 to 1.2.2).

Releases (11)

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Package metadata

First published: 2021-07-13
Total releases: 11 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 234 KB / 3 files
Download size: 257 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("mutualinf")

Format

Angulo-Gonzalez, C., FONDECYT/ANID Project 11170583, MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (Project no. PID2019-108576RB-I00), UCT VIP Project FEQUIP2019-INRN-03, Fuentealba-Chaura, R., Mora, R., & Rojas-Mora, J. (2025). mutualinf: Computation and Decomposition of the Mutual Information Index (Version 2.0.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.mutualinf

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mutualinf version 2.0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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