R Observatory: Metrics for paran version 1.5.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

paran

1.5.6Package record

Horn's Test of Principal Components/Factors

2packages dependsuggested by 2

50.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Alexis DinnoCRAN page ↗Website ↗

An implementation of Horn's technique for numerically and graphically evaluating the components or factors retained in a principle components analysis (PCA) or common factor analysis (FA). Horn's method contrasts eigenvalues produced through a PCA or FA on a number of random data sets of uncorrelated variables with the same number of variables and observations as the experimental or observational data set to produce eigenvalues for components or factors that are adjusted for the sample error-induced inflation. Components with adjusted eigenvalues greater than one are retained. paran may also be used to conduct parallel analysis following Glorfeld's (1995) suggestions to reduce the likelihood of over-retention.

Install

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

install.packages("paran", 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-paran

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-paran

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-paran

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: 55 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

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

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.5.6

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 100%1 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

50.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,722 · ~139/day · ~4.2K/mo

Releases R versions

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3.7K30 days

12.2K90 days

50.8K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing paran adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 766 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: rlang 766 KB.

Depends (2)

R >= 1.8.0MASS

Imports (1)

rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

umx funspace

Suggests, most downloaded first

seminrExtras alsi

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Alexis Dinno

Releases (18)

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Package metadata

First published: 2007-08-12
Total releases: 18 / 19 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 1.8.0
Download size: 8.8 KB

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Psychometric Models and Methods

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citation("paran")

Format

Dinno, A. (2026). paran: Horn's Test of Principal Components/Factors (Version 1.5.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.paran

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for paran version 1.5.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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