R Observatory: Metrics for probs version 0.9.9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

probs

0.9.9Package record

Elementary Probability on Finite Sample Spaces

0packages depend

11.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Joe gr. SchlarmannCRAN page ↗

Performs elementary probability calculations on finite sample spaces, which may be represented by data frames or lists. This package is meant to rescue some widely used functions from the archived 'prob' package (see https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/prob/). Functionality includes setting up sample spaces, counting tools, defining probability spaces, performing set algebra, calculating probability and conditional probability, tools for simulation and checking the law of large numbers, adding random variables, and finding marginal distributions. Characteristic functions for all base R distributions are included.

Changes in 0.9.9

Every function that had an manual entry in the old prob package was rescued and included.
Functions that have **not** been rescued are those from characteristicfunctions.r. I don't know what they are for, maybe they have been there for educational reasons. The first of these functions calls the fAsianOptions-package, which is why prob was archived on CRAN.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("probs", 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-probs

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-probs

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-probs

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: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

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

Advisories

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Documentation

In release 0.9.9

READMEYes · 45 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.9.9Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 49
Examples that run: 100%45 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 85%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

11.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,986 · ~31/day · ~955/mo

Releases R versions

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88330 days

2.3K90 days

11.5K1 year

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Also on66 r2u7 autocran

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing probs adds 4 packages (2 with compiled code, 2.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, plyr 392 KB, reshape 42 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

statsutilscombinatMASSreshape

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Joe gr. Schlarmann

Maintainer since 0.9.9 (2024)

G. Jay Kerns

Author, Copyright holder

Releases (1)

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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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2024-06-20 · current release
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Package metadata

First published: 2024-06-20
Total releases: 1 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 25 KB

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Format

gr. Schlarmann, J., & Kerns, G. J. (2024). probs: Elementary Probability on Finite Sample Spaces (Version 0.9.9) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.probs

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for probs version 0.9.9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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