R Observatory: Metrics for poibin version 1.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

poibin

1.6

The Poisson Binomial Distribution

6packages depend

60.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Yili HongFirst published 2012-10-297 releasesCRAN 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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

0

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
OK2026-06-08
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

60.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,503 · ~166/day · ~5K/mo

Releases R versions

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1.1K30 days

7.3K90 days

60.5K1 year

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Dependencies

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0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

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Enhances (0)

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Yili Hong

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Yili Hong

Author, Maintainer

R Core Team

Author, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (1)

R Core Team

Author, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-10-29
Total releases: 7 / 14 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 15 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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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

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for poibin version 1.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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