R Observatory: Metrics for provenance version 4.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

provenance

4.4

Statistical Toolbox for Sedimentary Provenance Analysis

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Overview

About

Maintained by Pieter VermeeschFirst published 2015-05-2628 releasesCRAN page ↗

Bundles a number of established statistical methods to facilitate the visual interpretation of large datasets in sedimentary geology. Includes functionality for adaptive kernel density estimation, principal component analysis, correspondence analysis, multidimensional scaling, generalised procrustes analysis and individual differences scaling using a variety of dissimilarity measures. Univariate provenance proxies, such as single-grain ages or (isotopic) compositions are compared with the Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Kuiper, Wasserstein-2 or Sircombe-Hazelton L2 distances. Categorical provenance proxies such as chemical compositions are compared with the Aitchison and Bray-Curtis distances,and count data with the chi-square distance. Varietal data can either be converted to one or more distributional datasets, or directly compared using the multivariate Wasserstein distance. Also included are tools to plot compositional and count data on ternary diagrams and point-counting data on radial plots, to calculate the sample size required for specified levels of statistical precision, and to assess the effects of hydraulic sorting on detrital compositions. Includes an intuitive query-based user interface for users who are not proficient in R.

Install

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

install.packages("provenance", 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-provenance

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-provenance

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-provenance

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

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Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

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Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMEYes · 274 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 98%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 92%
References docs: 25%

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 2.10IsoplotR

Imports (2)

MASSmethods

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none

Suggests (2)

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Pieter Vermeesch

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Authors (1)

Pieter Vermeesch

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Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-05-26
Total releases: 28 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 189 KB / 4 files
Download size: 473 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Vermeesch, P. (2025). provenance: Statistical Toolbox for Sedimentary Provenance Analysis (Version 4.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.provenance

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