R Observatory: Metrics for rpca version 0.2.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rpca

0.2.3Package record

RobustPCA: Decompose a Matrix into Low-Rank and Sparse Components

0packages depend

3.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Maciek SykulskiCRAN page ↗

Suppose we have a data matrix, which is the superposition of a low-rank component and a sparse component. Candes, E. J., Li, X., Ma, Y., & Wright, J. (2011). Robust principal component analysis?. Journal of the ACM (JACM), 58(3), 11. prove that we can recover each component individually under some suitable assumptions. It is possible to recover both the low-rank and the sparse components exactly by solving a very convenient convex program called Principal Component Pursuit; among all feasible decompositions, simply minimize a weighted combination of the nuclear norm and of the L1 norm. This package implements this decomposition algorithm resulting with Robust PCA approach.

Install

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

install.packages("rpca", 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-rpca

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-rpca

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-rpca

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: 48 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.3

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 5includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,034 · ~9/day · ~275/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

22030 days

66590 days

3.3K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rpca adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

compiler

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maciek Sykulski

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.3 (2015)

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2015-07-31 · current release
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Package metadata

First published: 2015-07-31
Total releases: 1 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 18 KB

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Robust Statistical Methods

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rpca")

Format

Sykulski, M. (2015). rpca: RobustPCA: Decompose a Matrix into Low-Rank and Sparse Components (Version 0.2.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rpca

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rpca version 0.2.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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