R Observatory: Metrics for rquest version 1.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rquest

1.1.0Package record

Hypothesis Tests for Quantiles and Quantile-Based Measures

0packages depend

2Kdownloads / year

92.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Shenal DedduwakumaraCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Functions to conduct hypothesis tests and derive confidence intervals for quantiles, linear combinations of quantiles, ratios of dependent linear combinations and differences and ratios of all of the above for comparisons between independent samples. Additionally, quantile-based measures of inequality are also considered.

Changes in 1.1.0

Added qden() for quantile density estimation using QOR-based and density-based methods.
Added qor() for computing quantile optimality ratios using the generalized lambda distribution, lognormal, normal, exponential, and user-supplied quantile functions.
Added qrcov() for covariance matrix estimation for ratios of linear combinations of quantile estimators.
Added rcv.test() for one- and two-sample inference for robust coefficients of variation based on the MAD or IQR.
Extended qcov() to use the new quantile density estimation framework, including flexible distributional choices for QOR-based estimation.
Extended qineq() to support additional quantile-based inequality measures and user-specified measures.
Updated q.test() to improve quantile-based inference and argument handling.
Improved input validation, documentation, and error and warning messages throughout the package.
Expanded the automated test suite to cover the new and updated functions.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("rquest", 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("shenal-dkumara/rquest")

Development version from shenal-dkumara/rquest. 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-rquest

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-rquest

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-rquest

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: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-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 1.1.0

READMEYes · 570 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 8 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%7 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 88%

How these are measured

Downloads

2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #21,754 · ~6/day · ~170/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27230 days

59890 days

2K1 year

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Also on76 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

shenal-dkumara/rquest ↗Account: shenal-dkumara

0Stars

0Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · Last activity 2026-08-28

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 0%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/shenal-dkumara/rquest on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (2)

README.Rmdpkgdown

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rquest adds 5 packages (5 with compiled code, 1.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: rlang 766 KB, lmom 339 KB, e1071 311 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

statsgld rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

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 (3)

Shenal Dedduwakumara

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.2 (2024)

Luke Prendergast

Author

Robert Staudte

Author

Releases (5)

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1.1.0Latest
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2026-08-28 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
qden, qor, qrcov, rcv.test
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.5
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2025-06-11 · diff ↗
1.0.4
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2025-05-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.3
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2025-01-09 · diff ↗
1.0.2
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2024-10-14
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-10-14
Total releases: 5 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 37 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("rquest")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rquest version 1.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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