R Observatory: Metrics for productivity version 1.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

productivity

1.1.2Package record

Indices of Productivity Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)

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3.4Kdownloads / year

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Overview

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Maintained by Yann DesjeuxCRAN page ↗Issues ↗

Levels and changes of productivity and profitability are measured with various indices. The package contains the multiplicatively complete Färe-Primont, Fisher, Hicks-Moorsteen, Laspeyres, Lowe, and Paasche indices, as well as the classic Malmquist productivity index. Färe-Primont and Lowe indices verify the transitivity property and can therefore be used for multilateral or multitemporal comparison. Fisher, Hicks-Moorsteen, Laspeyres, Malmquist, and Paasche indices are not transitive and are only to be used for binary comparison. All indices can also be decomposed into different components, providing insightful information on the sources of productivity and profitability changes. In the use of Malmquist productivity index, the technological change index can be further decomposed into bias technological change components. The package also allows to prohibit technological regression (negative technological change). In the case of the Fisher, Hicks-Moorsteen, Laspeyres, Paasche and the transitive Färe-Primont and Lowe indices, it is furthermore possible to rule out technological change. Deflated shadow prices can also be obtained. Besides, the package allows parallel computing as an option, depending on the user's computer configuration. All computations are carried out with the nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), and several assumptions regarding returns to scale are available. All DEA linear programs are implemented using 'lp_solve'.

Changes in 1.1.2

Changes in 'productivity' version 1.1.2 (2026-09-08)

NEW FEATURES

None

BUG FIXES

None

DEPRECATED & DEFUNCT

None

OTHER USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

Updated references (url links) in "Rd files"
Updated DESCRIPTION file.
Updated startup message.

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From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("productivity", 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-productivity

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-productivity

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-productivity

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

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Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-19
NOTE13 NOTE2026-05-11
WARNING12 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-05-10
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

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Documentation

In release 1.1.2

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.2Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 11
Examples that run: 9%1 run in a plain check · 10 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 90%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 73%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,110 · ~9/day · ~281/mo

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3.4K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing productivity adds 4 packages (1 with compiled code, 1,020 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: lpSolveAPI 479 KB, iterators 293 KB, doParallel 160 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.15.3

Imports (5)

lpSolveAPI doParallel foreach iteratorsmethods

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none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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People & History

People (3)

Yann Desjeux

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2016)

K Hervé Dakpo

Author

Laure Latruffe

Author

Releases (5)

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1.1.2Latest
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2026-09-08 · current release · diff ↗
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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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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
1.1.0
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2018-03-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
hicksmoorsteen
1.0.0
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2017-07-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
fisher, laspeyres, paasche, Levels, Changes, Shadowp
0.2.0
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2017-05-11 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.0
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2016-11-14
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-11-14
Total releases: 5 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.15.3
Bundled data: 47 KB / 1 file
Download size: 86 KB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for productivity version 1.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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