R Observatory: Metrics for mvnormalTest version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mvnormalTest

1.0.1

Powerful Tests for Multivariate Normality

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7.8Kdownloads / year

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13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Yian ZhangFirst published 2020-04-282 releasesCRAN page ↗

A simple informative powerful test (mvnTest()) for multivariate normality proposed by Zhou and Shao (2014) doi:10.1080/02664763.2013.839637, which combines kurtosis with Shapiro-Wilk test that is easy for biomedical researchers to understand and easy to implement in all dimensions. This package also contains some other multivariate normality tests including Fattorini's FA test (faTest()), Mardia's skewness and kurtosis test (mardia()), Henze-Zirkler's test (mhz()), Bowman and Shenton's test (msk()), Royston’s H test (msw()), and Villasenor-Alva and Gonzalez-Estrada's test (msw()). Empirical power calculation functions for these tests are also provided. In addition, this package includes some functions to generate several types of multivariate distributions mentioned in Zhou and Shao (2014).

Install

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

install.packages("mvnormalTest", 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-mvnormaltest

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-mvnormalTest

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-mvnormalTest

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

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Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 100%

Downloads

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CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,907 · ~21/day · ~651/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (4)

statsnortest moments copula

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

knitr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Yian Zhang

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Yian Zhang

Author, Maintainer

Yongzhao Shao

Author

Ming Zhou

Author

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-04-28
Total releases: 2 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 16 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Zhang, Y., Shao, Y., & Zhou, M. (2025). mvnormalTest: Powerful Tests for Multivariate Normality (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.mvnormalTest

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mvnormalTest version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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