R Observatory: Metrics for prototest version 1.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

prototest

1.3Package record

Inference on Prototypes from Clusters of Features

0packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Stephen ReidCRAN page ↗

Procedures for testing for group-wide signal in clusters of variables. Tests can be performed for single groups in isolation (univariate) or multiple groups together (multivariate). Specific tests include the exact and approximate (un)selective likelihood ratio tests described in Reid et al (2015), the selective F test and marginal screening prototype test of Reid and Tibshirani (2015). User may pre-specify columns to be included in prototype formation, or allow the function to select them itself. A mixture of these two is also possible. Any variable selection is accounted for using the selective inference framework. Options for non-sampling and hit-and-run null reference distributions.

Install

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

install.packages("prototest", 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-prototest

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-prototest

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-prototest

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: 4.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-30
NOTE13 NOTE2026-06-08
ERROR12 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
NOTE14 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR13 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18

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NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.3

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 4includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 75%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,294 · ~7/day · ~220/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

43630 days

94590 days

2.6K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing prototest adds 8 packages (5 with compiled code, 8.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: glmnet 2.7 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppEigen 1.7 MB.

Depends (3)

intervalsMASSglmnet

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Stephen Reid

Author, Maintainer since 1.1 (2016)

Releases (3)

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-04-19
Total releases: 3 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 30 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("prototest")

Format

Reid, S. (2026). prototest: Inference on Prototypes from Clusters of Features (Version 1.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.prototest

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 prototest version 1.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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