R Observatory: Metrics for poisbinom version 1.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

poisbinom

1.0.2Package record

A Faster Implementation of the Poisson-Binomial Distribution

2packages depend

11.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Santiago OlivellaCRAN page ↗

Provides the probability, distribution, and quantile functions and random number generator for the Poisson-Binomial distribution. This package relies on FFTW to implement the discrete Fourier transform, so that it is much faster than the existing implementation of the same algorithm in R.

Install

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

install.packages("poisbinom", 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-poisbinom

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-poisbinom

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-poisbinom

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: 2.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-04-22

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.0.2

READMEYes · 7 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 25%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

11.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,444 · ~30/day · ~928/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

54830 days

1.5K90 days

11.1K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing poisbinom adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 1.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

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How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Santiago Olivella

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2017)

Yuki Shiraito

Author

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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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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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-05-16
Total releases: 3 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 4.5 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("poisbinom")

Format

Olivella, S., & Shiraito, Y. (2025). poisbinom: A Faster Implementation of the Poisson-Binomial Distribution (Version 1.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.poisbinom

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 poisbinom version 1.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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