R Observatory: Metrics for robustX version 1.2-8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

robustX

1.2-8Package record

'eXtra' / 'eXperimental' Functionality for Robust Statistics

2packages dependsuggested by 1

5.5Kdownloads / year

88.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Martin MaechlerCRAN page ↗Repository ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Robustness -- 'eXperimental', 'eXtraneous', or 'eXtraordinary' Functionality for Robust Statistics. Hence methods which are not well established, often related to methods in package 'robustbase'. Amazingly, 'BACON()', originally by Billor, Hadi, and Velleman (2000) doi:10.1016/S0167-9473(99)00101-2 has become established in places. The "barrow wheel" `rbwheel()` is from Stahel and Mächler (2009) doi:10.1111/j.1467-9868.2009.00706.x.

Install

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

install.packages("robustX", 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-robustx

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-robustX

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-robustX

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: 1.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2-8

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 8includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%8 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 82%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 88%

Also includes 2 demo scripts (run with demo())

How these are measured

Downloads

5.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,540 · ~15/day · ~457/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

50730 days

1.3K90 days

5.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on126 r2u3 autocran128 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php ↗

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Repository r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing robustX adds 2 packages (1 with compiled code, 2.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: robustbase 2.2 MB, DEoptimR 24 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

grDevicesgraphicsstatsutilsrobustbase

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

MASSlatticepcaPP

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

OutliersO3 dmbc

Suggests, most downloaded first

wbacon

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Martin Maechler

Author, Maintainer since 1.1-0 (2009)

Werner A. Stahel

Author · added in 1.2-5

Ueli Oetliker

Contributor · added in 1.2-5

original version of BACON() and mvBACON for S+

Tobias Schoch

Contributor · added in 1.2-5

init.sel="V2" for BACON; fix alpha

Rolf Turner

Contributor · added in 1.2-5

reclas()

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Werner Stahel

no longer listed · 1.1-0 to 1.2-4

potentially others

no longer listed · 1.1-0 to 1.2-4

Releases (12)

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

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2017-02-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
reclas
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
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R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17

Package metadata

First published: 2009-06-14
Total releases: 12 / 17 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 44 KB

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Robust Statistical Methods

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Format

Maechler, M., Oetliker, U., Schoch, T., Stahel, W. A., & Turner, R. (2026). robustX: 'eXtra' / 'eXperimental' Functionality for Robust Statistics (Version 1.2-8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.robustX

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for robustX version 1.2-8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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