R Observatory: Metrics for poibin version 1.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

poibin

1.6Package record

The Poisson Binomial Distribution

5packages dependsuggested by 1

44.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yili HongCRAN page ↗

Implementation of both the exact and approximation methods for computing the cdf of the Poisson binomial distribution as described in Hong (2013) <doi: 10.1016/j.csda.2012.10.006>. It also provides the pmf, quantile function, and random number generation for the Poisson binomial distribution. The C code for fast Fourier transformation (FFT) is written by R Core Team (2019)https://www.R-project.org/, which implements the FFT algorithm in Singleton (1969) <doi: 10.1109/TAU.1969.1162042>.

Install

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

install.packages("poibin", 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-poibin

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-poibin

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-poibin

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: 1.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.6

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 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

44.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,119 · ~122/day · ~3.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.4K30 days

4K90 days

44.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on633 r2u3 autocran3.9K conda_forge142 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing poibin adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

0indirect

Depends 2 · Imports 3

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

SSDM sgof pprof FEprovideR ROCS

Suggests, most downloaded first

forrel

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Yili Hong

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2011)

R Core Team

Author, Copyright holder · added in 1.5

Releases (7)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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2024-08-23 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2020-01-09 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-12-13
misrepresentation of authorship Contains code lifted from R and not just by Ihaka Archival pending revdeps
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2019-12-13 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2018-05-16 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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2013-02-14 · diff ↗
1.01
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2012-10-30 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
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added 4 exports
ppoibin, dpoibin, qpoibin, rpoibin
1.0
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2012-10-29
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2012-10-29
Total releases: 7 / 14 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 15 KB

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Probability Distributions

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("poibin")

Format

Hong, Y., & R Core Team, . (2024). poibin: The Poisson Binomial Distribution (Version 1.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.poibin

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

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for poibin version 1.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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