R Observatory: Metrics for qrfactor version 1.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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qrfactor

1.6Package record

Simultaneous Q-Mode and R-Mode Factor Analysis for Spatial Data

0packages depend

620downloads / year

24.2%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by George OwusuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Performs Q-mode and R-mode factor analysis simultaneously on spatial and non-spatial data. A single function, qrfactor(), carries out principal component analysis, R-mode factor analysis, Q-mode factor analysis, simultaneous R- and Q-mode factor analysis, principal coordinate analysis and multidimensional scaling. Loadings and scores are returned from the fitted object, and the plot() method provides annotated biplots for combinations of eigenvectors, loadings and scores. Input may be supplied as an 'ESRI' shapefile, a delimited text file or a data frame.

Changes in 1.6

New features

qrfactor() gains a rotation argument (default FALSE). Set rotation = TRUE (or "varimax") to varimax-rotate the retained factors to simple structure; the default keeps the classical unrotated solution, so existing results are unchanged. When rotation is requested the same orthogonal rotation is applied to the R-mode and Q-mode loadings, so both modes remain on one common set of axes and the scores, combined loadings, appended index columns and all biplots/maps rotate consistently. The eigenvectors, eigenvalues and PCA loadings are left unrotated. The fitted object now also carries rotation, unrotated.r.loading and unrotated.q.loading.

CRAN policy compliance

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The plot() method no longer leaves the user's graphics state changed: par() is captured on entry and restored with on.exit().
The analysis views (type = "cluster", "anova", "region", "admin", "diagnose") no longer write statistical tables to the console unconditionally. They are silent by default and print only when the new plot(..., verbose = TRUE) argument is set; the print()/summary() methods are unaffected.
Quoted software and package names ('qrfactor()', 'plot()', 'ESRI') in the DESCRIPTION, and rewrote the ?qrfactor examples so the fast data-frame workflow runs unwrapped and only the shapefile / map examples (which need sf/sp) are under \donttest{}. The stale readOGR() example call was removed.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("qrfactor", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("gowusu/qrfactor")

Development version from gowusu/qrfactor. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-qrfactor

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-qrfactor

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-qrfactor

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

2ERROR11OK

Check messages

ERRORexamplesr-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Running examples in ‘qrfactor-Ex.R’ failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> ### Name: qrfactor
> ### Title: Simultaneous Q-Mode and R-Mode Factor Analysis
> ### Aliases: qrfactor qrfactor.default print.qrfactor summary.qrfactor
> ###   plot.qrfactor
> ### Keywords: Factor Analysis
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> # --- CSV / data-frame workflow (fast, always runs) ---
> csv <- system.file("external", "Africanfreshwater.csv", package = "qrfactor")
> var <- c("Domestic", "Industry", "Agricultur", "Resources",
+          "withdrawal", "perCapitaW")
> 
> mod0 <- qrfactor(csv, var = var)   # classical unrotated solution (default)
Error in `[.data.frame`(object, var) : undefined columns selected
Calls: qrfactor -> qrfactor.default -> rq -> [ -> [.data.frame
Execution halted

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

ERROR11 OK, 2 ERRORNow
ERROR5 OK, 2 ERROR2026-09-16

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.6

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.6Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 50%

How these are measured

Downloads

620

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #21,404 · ~2/day · ~52/mo

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46030 days

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Repository

gowusu/qrfactor ↗Account: gowusu

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0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

Last activity 2026-09-06

Responsiveness

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PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/gowusu/qrfactor on 2026-10-21.

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-26

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-26, before release 1.6 (2026-09-15)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing qrfactor adds 6 packages (3 with compiled code, 7.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sp 4.3 MB, robustbase 2.2 MB, mvoutlier 466 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (5)

methodsspclustermvoutlier pvclust

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

MASSsf

Enhances (0)

none

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People & History

People (1)

George Owusu

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2011)

Releases (6)

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Package metadata

First published: 2011-10-26
Total releases: 6 / 15 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 2.0 MB

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Format

Owusu, G. (2026). qrfactor: Simultaneous Q-Mode and R-Mode Factor Analysis for Spatial Data (Version 1.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.qrfactor

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for qrfactor version 1.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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