R Observatory: Metrics for mvnormalTest version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mvnormalTest

1.0.1Package record

Powerful Tests for Multivariate Normality

1packages depend

7.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yian ZhangCRAN 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. 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-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). 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: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.0.1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 19
Examples that run: 100%19 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

7.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,418 · ~20/day · ~598/mo

Releases R versions

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54430 days

1.5K90 days

7.2K1 year

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Also on96 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mvnormalTest adds 11 packages (6 with compiled code, 7.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: copula 3.5 MB, colorspace 2.0 MB, mvtnorm 1.0 MB.

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

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

FAfA

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Yian Zhang

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2020)

Yongzhao Shao

Author

Ming Zhou

Author

Releases (2)

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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

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("mvnormalTest")

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

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mvnormalTest version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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